Emily Murphy

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The idea I would like to correct is that you need a crisis to justify being here. A great many people wait until something has actually gone wrong, when the far more useful time is while a change is still being considered. Working out whether to begin a new chapter is exactly the kind of thing this hour is good for, and it does not require anything to have collapsed first. We think it through properly, with someone who has no stake in the outcome and will not be affected by whichever way you go. That is harder to find among friends and family than people realize. My upbringing was full of caregiving, in a household where you were only allowed to need something once it had become an emergency. I have spent my working life disagreeing with that. If nothing has gone wrong yet, this is still a reasonable time to come.