You won’t believe what I did next, it still makes me cringe, I actually walked up to a stranger on the beach and questioned her confidence, but,
I thought I was being respectful, even helpful, shaped by decades of “proper” thinking—yet the way she carried herself shattered every quiet rule I had lived by.
She laughed… just laughed—and in that moment, something inside me cracked wide open, making me question whether I had been living freely or just safely all along, therefore,