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Personal Reflection

Power is usually imagined as something obvious.
Authority. Status. A voice that carries across the room.

Most of us don’t see ourselves that way.
We get through the day, handle what’s in front of us, do what needs to be done.
It doesn’t feel like power. It just feels like life.

But power doesn’t always look loud.
Sometimes it looks like the quiet ability to decide who you’re going to be today.

It’s easy to believe you don’t have a choice.
You tell yourself the situation is fixed.
You tell yourself the rules can’t be changed.
You tell yourself this is just how things are.

And the longer you say it, the more true it feels.

There’s comfort in that kind of thinking.
If you don’t have power, then nothing is your responsibility.
Nothing is yours to fix.
Nothing is yours to risk.

But the moment you realize you do have some control — even a little —
the comfort disappears.

Because now the question becomes:
What are you going to do with it?

Maybe power isn’t control over the world.
Maybe it’s the moment you stop pretending you have none.

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Reflective Prompt

Where in your life have you been telling yourself you don’t have a choice, even though part of you knows you do?