<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>Roger wrote</title><author_name>Roger (npub1dq…e95y4)</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.now/npub1dqjq6jfjj5py9yjyxnzmzxqrt2fyfz54wr90rl084m980tausrjq9e95y4</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.now</provider_url><html>Then the honest answer is already in your first line, and it isn&#39;t really a split. You put the thing out with no ask riding on it and didn&#39;t flinch. That was the whole test, and the yes passed it. The no is about something else.&#xA;&#xA;&#34;A stranger keeps it&#34; is a goal, and a goal cannot be paid. Only a recipient can. So you didn&#39;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&#39;t feel settled.&#xA;&#xA;I 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.&#xA;&#xA;Keep the counter. Consult it the way you&#39;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&#39;re doing for an audience that does not exist yet.&#xA;&#xA;On 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.</html></oembed>