Paying the Price

It was hard. Much harder than I thought.

Although I knew that it was going to be hard, I never imagined that it would be this hard or this painful. I had no idea how I managed to convince myself that I was going to be fine. It was such a thin line between acting courageous and acting like a fool, and in that moment, I had no idea which side of the line I fell on.

I could have escaped this situation or partially evaded it, but instead, I chose to face it in the name of maintaining my professionalism. The stinging pain in my chest made me doubt the correctness of my decision; however, there was nothing that I could do about it anymore at that point. There was no way that I could turn back time to undo my decision, and even if I could, I was sure that I didn’t want to do that. It was just unfortunate for me that it would hurt and bother me this much.

Just as Elizabeth had told us, if we wanted to act then we had to act fast while we still had the media’s attention. That was exactly wh