The Aisle We Walked Together
Once I actually understood what was happening, the decision made itself.
It is like that, I think, with most of the choices we imagine will be agonizing.
The agony is in the not-knowing, in the fog before the facts arrive.
Once you can truly see the thing in front of you, once you know, the right action is usually not a torment at all.
It is simply obvious, and you do it, and you wonder why you ever thought it would be hard.
Chapter 16 — The Choice Between Comfort and My Child