How Pain Forced Me to Evolve Into Someone I Didn’t Recognize — In a Good Way

February 7, 2025. 1:06 PM. My manager sent me an email with the subject line: “ACT OF INSUBORDINATION BY YOU.” I stared at those words on my screen. After a month of begging for leave. After documenting every conversation. After doing everything by the book. Insubordination. That’s when I felt it. That quiet click inside…