i agree a whole lot. it's knowing i can just walk out anytime i CHOOSE - that enables me to choose to stay yet another day.
it's all in knowing ultimately you're makign the decision and not just havign it all thrust upon you.
which - btw - is exactly how it does feel most of the time- they're shoving this all down our throats and we're just tryin not to choke on it.
BUT YOU'RE RITE. IT IS OUR decision to stand. nobody has a gun toour head.
i also remind myself all the time- it does help. that and telilng myself that if i'm to have some wonderful OTHER LIFE - "in the end" - there's no rule that says it will not present itself while i'm still in this life standing. i mean- who does know? no body says the only way to get on with your new life is to be out of your old one-
perhaps while i'm here standing- something new will unfold and i'll just wend my way down that particular road.
maybe it all is happening "as it should" in the universe and we'll be presented with the new choices and paths as the time is rite for us.
or somthing like that (i'm very bad at putting this universe - new age junk i happen to buy into anyway (or religion) into words()
i just think there's a whole lot more going on "out there" than we can know about.