COMMITMENT
The appointment on November 12th
What you committed to
You booked it, and what you felt looking at the confirmation was not relief but exposure, because it is no longer a thing you are going to do.
How you are holding it
It has a date and a time and a building, which takes it out of the category that can hold something indefinitely without any strain at all. You told Danny by text rather than waiting until seven, because six hours would have been enough time to decide not to have said it, and when he asked if he should be there you said yes.
Evidence
5 quotes
“The appointment is the week after. The order matters — I want to have told him before we sit in that room, because otherwise I will be sitting in that room with a thing in my pocket, and that is how I have conducted the entire last four years and it is not how I want to conduct this.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“I have not told anyone except Danny and Tess. Not Mum — definitely not Mum, who would be careful about it in a way that would require managing, and who would then tell Dad.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“A week until the appointment.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“It is no longer a thing I am going to do, which is a category that can hold something indefinitely without any strain at all.”
First mention
Read the entry →“The thing I expected to feel was relief and the thing I actually felt was exposure. It is on a calendar now.”
First mention
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