Thresholds Don’t Announce Themselves
We often imagine transitions as obvious.
A graduation.
A wedding.
Retirement.
A move.
A diagnosis.
But many thresholds arrive quietly.
Nothing dramatic happens.
Yet something no longer fits.
You begin asking different questions.
Old ambitions lose their urgency.
New interests emerge before they make sense.
You may not know what is changing.
Only that something is.
Thresholds rarely come with signs.
They are usually recognized in retrospect.
And because they are subtle, we often mistake them for confusion.
Perhaps uncertainty is not evidence that something is wrong.
Perhaps uncertainty is what it feels like to stand awkwardly between what has been and what is becoming.
Some thresholds are crossed in a single moment.
Most are crossed one conversation, one question, one season at a time.
