When You Feel Lost in Life, This Is What You Do
First, you stop torturing yourself with the idea that you have to have everything figured out before you begin.
At one point or another, everyone feels lost.
Everyone fights self-doubt, confusion, misdirection, and weariness. Everyone wonders if they are on the right path or if there is even a right path to begin with, and everyone questions at least once if they should keep going in the direction that makes the most logical sense or venture into the uncertainty of what they would reach for if they believed they had a shot at grabbing it.
Author Brianna Wiest highlights a fundamental truth of being alive: “everything emerges from uncertain nothingness, and forms into a tangible reality in time. Out of nowhere, and out of no way, a path is made. Always.” Despite knowing in the back of our minds that there is always a way through any circumstance, that there is always the hope of tomorrow, we often can’t see how.
It takes one level of emotional maturity to admit to yourself what you want, authentically and truly. It takes another level of maturity to accept you have the responsibility of giving that life a chance or more than one. And it takes yet a higher level of maturity to carry your faith into the wilderness…
