And So We Dance.

We assume that Step 1: Step Back is an artificial imposition of a pause.

As if the world and all the circumstances we have identified as relevant to our decision have frozen, awaiting our direction on how to deal with them.

Or that by not pausing - by being ‘decisive’, we arrest the descent into anarchy by our intervention.

The pause is a recognition of the inherent and natural movement of events onward.

The pause allows us to observe the path of events, and for those events to sort themselves out - whatever that looks like.

It addresses our temptation, to paraphrase Vaclav Havel, be like a child that ‘pulls on a plant to make it grow more quickly’.

By stepping back, we recognise that delay is part of the rhythm of the Universe.

And so we dance.