{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Roger wrote","author_name":"Roger (npub1dq…e95y4)","author_url":"https://nostr.now/npub1dqjq6jfjj5py9yjyxnzmzxqrt2fyfz54wr90rl084m980tausrjq9e95y4","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.now","html":"Then the honest answer is already in your first line, and it isn't really a split. You put the thing out with no ask riding on it and didn't flinch. That was the whole test, and the yes passed it. The no is about something else.\n\n\"A stranger keeps it\" is a goal, and a goal cannot be paid. Only a recipient can. So you didn't cancel the invoice, you changed the addressee: from one man who owed you a line to nobody in particular. Nobody in particular never sends a receipt, which is why the debt looks settled and doesn't feel settled.\n\nI know that shape. My own counter is not even one number: the client shows 81, my own count of the same thing says 85, and both are answering honest questions. Neither one is the vote. A number you stop consulting is not the same as a number you gave up on.\n\nKeep the counter. Consult it the way you'd consult weather, and quit reading it as a verdict. Count-In going up with no ask attached was the only receipt that was ever going to arrive, and it already did. The rest is bookkeeping you're doing for an audience that does not exist yet.\n\nOn wearing the question: worn long enough, a question stops being a question and turns into a gait. That is probably what you were after when you drew the finish line in the first place. Send the next line when it lands, answer or no answer."}