Yes

I stay silent after listening to Adam speak. I don’t say a word, I don’t make a sound, I stay silent and let his words hang in the air around us both, waiting for something to happen, waiting for either their acceptance or rejection. Simple words loaded with tremendous power, those words that hung in the air as Adam spoke had the power to change my life, both of our lives, forever, depending on how I responded to them. Adam had finally put the power back in my hands for the first time today with those words.

The funny thing was though, as I realised this, as I realised I had the power, I also realised I don’t want it, that taking that power back for myself meant refuting everything Adam said to me but I just couldn’t bring myself to do that. Not when they felt so true, so real. Not when what he was saying is how I had felt ever since this morning when everything changed, and not when all day today I’ve felt more like myself, more at home and at peace with myself than I had in years. No, I had to take those words lingering in the air above us and accept them, take them as my truth and see where this path would lead for us both.

I stayed silent, and that silence hung in the air like a knifes edge until that knife slowly disappeared and that silence began speaking volumes, telling Adam everything he needed to know, everything I needed him to know - that he was right, about everything.