Before anyone notices

Hard work · Little Light original

Nobody sees the first version you decide not to send. The afternoon spent finding the error. The way you practise a difficult conversation on the walk to work because you want to get it right. From the outside, it can look like an ordinary week. From where you are standing, something is changing. You notice a problem sooner. You ask a question you used to be afraid of. You recover from a setback with a little more understanding of what to do next. These changes can arrive so quietly that you forget they once felt beyond you. Recognition may take time, and it may not arrive in the form you imagined. Still, let yourself recognise the person doing this work. Look closely at what is becoming possible. Some of the progress you are waiting for is already present in the way you meet a difficult day.

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