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Around this same time, I saw an article about the writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who had recently had a baby without making any sort of formal announcement. She was quoted as saying, “I just feel like we are living in an age when women are supposed to perform pregnancy,” and I felt instantly recognized. I didn’t want to perform pregnancy.
Free advice: when you tell your fiancé that you think you should cancel the wedding, really think through your wording beforehand so it doesn’t sound like “I don’t want to marry you.”
Because the worst thing that can happen isn’t that I die. I’m going to die. Unlike death, the truly sad and devastating thing is avoidable and fixable. It’s spending our time here trying to avoid the depths of misery, and in the process, missing out on the climb to happiness.
