Reflection 3: From the Unrequited Love Series
Reflection 3: When Friends Push but Values Pull Back Reflection from the Unrequited Love Series Author’s Reflection | Life Learning Message In the first reflection, I spoke about fear disguised as discipline. In the second, about love that is afraid of itself. This third reflection lives exactly between those two truths. Life often places us in moments where opportunity arrives with witnesses. Friends cheer. Circumstances align. From the outside, everything looks ready. But inside, something resists. Friends push because they care. They see potential, happiness, movement. They want us to step forward — to speak, to act, to claim what seems right. Yet values do not shout. They whisper. They remind us of upbringing, responsibility, timing, consequences. They ask uncomfortable questions: Is this courage — or pressure? Is this my readiness — or borrowed confidence? I have learned that not every opportunity is meant to be taken immediately. Some arrive only to test clarity, not action. Some...