the hardest part

is leaving them behind.

I must do it
but I feel like a (not so brave)
space explorer
venturing off into the great unknown

alone.

I would dearly *love* to bring them with me.

But: You must be taller than *this* stick to ride this ride.

Which is not a ‘judgment’, more an – observation?

Ok, it’s a judgment. Discrimination? Not as in, bigotry, but – the *ability to discriminate*? as in, to parse, to make sense of, to choose based on the available data.