No One Else Can Do This for You
The moment you stop waiting for this is the moment you start living.
Most of us trust.
And trust is good — necessary even.
But when that trust turns into waiting, hoping someone or something outside of you will save you, it gets tricky.
Maybe you know the moments:
When you keep waiting for a sign from the universe to finally do what you’ve wanted to do for years.
When you promise yourself you’ll start taking care of your health, but delay it because “it’s not the right time.”
When we collectively believe the government, the military, or some bigger force will fix things if they go wrong.
It feels safe.
It lets us breathe and say, “someone else will handle it.”
And for a while, that works.
But if you sit with it long enough, you realize how fragile that safety really is. Because if your life depends on someone else making the hard decisions, what happens when they don’t?
What happens when the rescue you’re waiting for never comes?
That’s when it gets uncomfortable.
That’s when you start to see the cost of giving your power away.
We’ve been conditioned to believe that the system will catch us.
That someone, somewhere, will step in when we fall.
And maybe sometimes they do. But at what cost?
The cost is the quiet erosion of our own agency.
We stop asking what *we* actually want.
We stop listening to the restlessness inside that’s begging for change.
We start listening to the voice of “security,” even when it’s lying to us.
→ And in doing so, we trade aliveness for safety. (This might be the most important sentence of this article)
I’m not saying you shouldn’t trust. I’m not saying you shouldn’t rely on others or the system.
But if your whole life is spent waiting for rescue — waiting for the perfect moment, the perfect sign, the perfect leader to come fix it all — you’ll be waiting forever.
No one else can do this for you.
Not the system. Not a savior. Not some perfectly timed sign.
At some point, you have to choose yourself.
Even if it’s scary. Even if you don’t feel ready.
Because if you don’t, the loop just keeps going.
The good news? You don’t need to have it all figured out.
You just need to take one step. Your step.
That’s how it changes. That’s how you change.
Feeling the pull to choose yourself — finally?
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Love this column! The message is what I have been saying and stating in my books and writing. Well said!