Are You Scared of Staying in One Place?

Why do I feel constriction in my chest when I think about staying? I think I feel it because it feels hard, hard to commit to a place, to actually plant down my roots, to be ok without a hundred options fluttering around, those freedom birds floating on the breeze of possibilities.

It is hard to plant myself, to be both the gardener and the tree, the shovel and the sapling, the hole and the roots.