She said: “When did you last make a decision that wasn’t a response to something?”

I went back through it.

The audit was a response.

The note was a response.

The fund, when I got there, was going to be a response.

Leaving the boutique had been a response to his schedule.

Buying the apartment had been a response to a school district we never needed.

The last decision I had made that was not a reaction to a man or a business or a treatment cycle was in 2012, when I signed up for a Spanish class I then dropped because of work.