I noticed last month that I have been turning down invitations not because I don't want to go, but because saying yes used to mean rearranging my life around someone else's plan, and I'm still flinching at a contract nobody is asking me to sign anymore - Silicon Canals
Source:Silicon Canals
I kept declining invitations I actually wanted to accept. Then I noticed the reflex was protecting me from a deal nobody was offering — a contract I’d signed in childhood that had quietly expired without my body being told.