A decade from now you won't miss the meetings you attended to feel safe. You'll be living the hours you protected instead, and they will hold you.

The thought behind it

It speaks on behalf of a version of you who does not exist yet, and asks you to act for them anyway. Quiet Power is the strength that leaves no evidence — the no, the pause, the purchase that never happened. “21” is doing the work: it is where the line stops describing you and starts asking something.