The best definition I’ve ever heard of commitment:

*You choose one life,
and you let all the others die.*

You stop fantasising about parallel selves and unrealised futures.
You stop half-living, half-inside a thousand imagined lives.

You grieve the lives you will never live, the selves you will never be.
Yes. Grief sits at the heart of commitment.

All the other paths.
All the other options.
It is a direct encounter with death.
Not the concept of it, but the reality of it, how it permeates life and is one with it.

Sacred commitment is the falling away of countless possible futures.

And yet, in that grief, something settles.
Something ancient and deep.

As the other fantasy lives die, you can finally be present for this one.

You can finally… live.
You plant your flag here.
In this body.
In this moment.
On this path.

You say YES to where you are!

In sacred commitment, your feet finally touch the ground.

It is not restriction or loss of freedom.
It is a portal to great joy.

~ Jeff Foster