Growth

 

I am coming into my own.

I can walk into a bank and have a conversation with a man who tries to treat me as less than. I fend him off with courtesy and dismissals. I am capable of listening politely to what he has to say and disagreeing.

I do not need to say I disagree. I simply do not choose to respond to what he has to say. 

I am calm and collected. 

I am in control.

And when all is said and done I stand up and offer him my hand.

He looks shocked, but we shake and that is it. We are finished.

Our business is done.