Do you have agency?

Sometimes it can feel like we’re shouting into the void.

That our greatest ideas

Our deepest fears

Our strongest feelings

Fall on deaf ears.

Or worse:

that we aren’t able to give voice to them in the first place.

Meanwhile 

we know that actions speak louder than words.

But hidden behind screens

remotely dislocated

our actions are left unwitnessed.

And we feel unseen.

After all

If a tree falls in the forest 

and no one is around to see it 

has it actually fallen at all?

Agency is an action or intervention producing a particular effect.

The capability to act.

We cannot control outcomes;

Only our intentions and actions.

Focus on keeping the saw sharp. 

Felling the tree one stroke at a time. 

Speaking up. 

Speaking out.

Acting with integrity. 

The effect is that you will have expressed yourself.

Shown the world who you are and what you believe in.

That’s your capability to act. 

Your agency. 

No one needs to know the tree has fallen except you.

But they will.