We spend an incredible amount of time trying to know what happens next.
What will my life look like in five years? Will I be successful? Will I find someone? Will I have enough money? Did I make the right decision? What if I had chosen differently?
We call it planning. Sometimes it is just anxiety wearing a nice suit.
There is nothing wrong with planning. Obviously, I would rather have a map than walk blindly into the forest. But at some point, the map becomes more important than the journey.
We want certainty because uncertainty makes us uncomfortable. We want guarantees before we take risks. We want to know that a decision will work before making it.
Life doesn't work that way.
You can make the most logical decision available to you and still end up somewhere completely unexpected. You can make what looks like a terrible decision and discover something valuable on the other side.
This is one of the more annoying truths about life: intelligence doesn't give you control. It gives you better guesses.
And perhaps that's enough.
Maybe the goal isn't to eliminate uncertainty. Maybe the goal is to become comfortable enough with uncertainty that you don't need to.
I don't need to know exactly where the road ends. I just need to know that I am willing to keep walking.