I'm ready...for anything - Picture Plate

A mother stands at the train platform with the kind of stillness you only get when you’re holding it together in public. The children lean out from the carriage, watching — curious, uncertain, trusting. And she’s there, in that quiet in-between moment where you don’t know what comes next, but you have to look like you do.

I’m ready… for anything is brave in the most understated way. Not dramatic. Not performative. Just that dry, resigned humour of someone who’s learned that life doesn’t ask permission — it simply arrives.

It’s acceptance as armour: calm on the outside, everything on the line underneath.