Nobody has ever begun anything under good conditions.
They began tired and underfunded and half sure.
Missing the one piece that would have made it obvious.
We tell ourselves the wait is strategic.
That we're gathering information and getting our bearings and holding out for the week where everything lines up.
That week gets cancelled every time.
The people you'd point to as having timed it well didn't find better ground.
They just stopped checking the ground.
Conditions are weather, not permission.
They will be poor again tomorrow and you will still be the one deciding.
Nothing is going to arrive and tell you it's time.
