#453 Everything is going to be okay

Finding the right path for you often means first taking the wrong turns.

Just like learning what works usually means first learning what doesn’t work.

Because gaining experience is learning to discern and distinguish between what works and what doesn’t.

And the best way to learn to discern right and wrong is by doing things right and wrong.

There’s wisdom in wrong turns.

Left? Right? Give up? Keep going? Turn back?

Maybe I’ll end up where I must end up, no matter what I decide.

Maybe the flow of life will show me where to go.

Write, not for the words flowing on the page, but for how writing makes you feel.

Run, not for the personal records, but for how running makes you feel.

Help out friends, not for expecting them to return the favor, but for how helping out friends makes you feel.

Do the right thing, not for any outer reward, but an inner feeling of aligning with who you want to be.

Nobody really knows what life is going to be bring.

But almost all of us are going to fine either way, not matter what life brings.

Without stress about what life might throw at you, what would you do?

What would you create?

Where would you go?

Who would you choose to be?

Most things are hard and a challenge, until suddenly they aren’t anymore.

And then we’ll find a new challenge.

And maybe that’s how it’s supposed to be.

If you don’t often go on detours, would there even be life in your day?

Maybe going astray IS the way.