This has certainly been a long time in the making…
As a reflective practitioner, it can be quite easy to get caught up in educational philosophy and trying to mine each and every one of your decisions for the philosophical stances it either explicitly or implicitly takes. While there is certainly many great things that can come from this process, like all philosophy, there is the potential to be completely paralyzed with the multitude of outcomes and deciding which path is best. It can get to the point where you are so worried about the words you say being misconstrued that it can become challenging to actually say anything definitive. Eventually, it is time to stop philosophizing and take action.