Thursday, November 3, 2022
When you’re facing a situation, like leaving a job; dealing with a breakup; or toying around with making a major change, you want to know how everything will work out, don’t you? Your attempt at omniscience is futile. There is no need to wrestle with the future like that, it’s not within your sight line to see that far down the road. Planning is good, but you can only go so far.
The future is messy, circuitous, dark, and it’s often timed out differently than you imagine. We’re not very good at playing guessing games with the future. Look how many doomsday prophets have made fools of themselves trying to predict the “end times!” You can’t see around the corner, so stop trying to stick your neck out that far.
When you walk in nature, you will encounter all sorts of terrain. You’ll come to some cleanings where you can see far, or you may encounter treacherous spots, or get caught in a blizzard and you can only see the very next step. When life closes in on you like that, it can be frightening – but most of the time, life shows you what’s next, and that’s all you need really. You see, entirety is not known at the individual level. We as individuals are fragments of the collective, no one person representing the totality of all. So in a sense, you are blinded to totality anyway. You can only see your little sliver of it. Nobody can unlock all of the secrets of the universe! If you only have enough provisions for today, that should be all you need. That’s at least enough to take one more step ahead in your life. When tomorrow comes, you can regroup and take another. But not yet, you really can’t see that far.