Stand your ground. Own it.
There is merit in fluidity, beauty in being able to flow as the river does, but there is also bravery in being immovable.
There are times in life when the best way for you to move forwards, is for you to not move an inch. For you to have no reaction to the words of that person; for you to continue to say no, as family, friends, the world, push you to say yes. For you to say “This is my feeling, my thought, my need today, and I unapologetically support it, as much as if I had birthed it through my body.” Another option, for the less polite, is “You, can fuck right off.”
There is courage is knowing your choice does not make sense to anyone but you, that it is not based on logic, or rational arguments, only that you feel it and know it to be what is true now, for you.
Stand your ground.
Do not move, unless you want to.
And if people are uncomfortable with who you are today, they can stand their own ground and make their own choices.
