“We are the ones who stayed behind, for all those good, bad and ugly reasons: because of caution, for conformity and obligation but mostly I suspect because of habit and fear. We didn’t take the risky road.”
– A.A.Gill ,excerpt from ‘The Golden Door’.
Gill was describing those people who did not migrate from the Old World, Europe, to the new one, America but he could equally be describing all who have stayed where they were in a situation, place or relationship because they felt bound to it, refusing to take the leap into the unknown new. It speaks to me anyway…
Ebb Then Flood 
Can identify with this too. It’s taking that first step in faith into the unknown. And then when you get there you think; ‘ why did I leave it so long?’
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