A friend and I caught up recently after a while just before she heads off onto a different phase in her life and career.
As we shared updates about what had happened these past months, we talked about the things we were grateful for and then talked about the associated trade-offs.
Because there always are trade-offs. Her choices – different as they were – came with different trade-offs from mine. But they existed all the same.
The beauty in framing the conversation about the trade-offs is that we talked about which trade-offs we had made peace with and which trade-offs we were still struggling to deal with. We talked about how these trade-offs felt in comparison to everything that was good.
Conversations about trade-offs have a way of capturing the nuances in this life.
And the nuances are where the richness and meaning lie.
