On hesitation

Is hesitation an instinct that protects us, or is it a demon that hates when we take action? Or is it … Oh, it’s you!

Hello, fear, my old friend, are we to have this chat again? All those years of fear, and here we are on the same precipice with the same doubts and the same paralysis and the same psychoanalysis.

And all the many pauses and hemhawses and chances that passed for not taking them — “It’s not the things you did that you’ll regret, it’s the what you didn’t do when you could....