Priority

Priority comes from prior: that which comes before. Not what matters most in theory, but what actually goes first when both cannot. A priority is only proven by what is put down. She begins committed — and a commitment is made to an objective, not to an object. What she does with it is engage: contact, gear, work. She does not embrace yet; embracing without conviction is romance without a record. She becomes convicted, and only in the convicted category does she embrace — and she embraces with the definitions, knowing exactly what the thing is and what it costs. People embrace a product when they are convicted about it, not when they are merely interested. Here she learns the hard sentence of this law: she is the object. Not other people. She already holds the objective in vision and in envisage; what she brings to it is herself. In the Sovereign she becomes converted — changed, turned around, no longer maintaining a stance but embodying the thing, so that it is visible in her body, her calendar, her money and her rooms. What she holds now are objectives, plural: many firsts, rightly ordered, each with an object she is willing to be. Being converted is what finally lets her see what she was committed to — and she had better have a conviction in between.