A little advice for those who don’t have it quite figured out.
“It’s okay to not know everything.
Curiosity is a beautiful thing.”_ M.H.N
Life is not a solved puzzle. You don’t reach a certain age, a certain social status, a certain position in your career, and suddenly have all the answers. There isn’t a secret potion, a lucky token, or even a prayer that will change the course of your life with a snap of your fingers.
But you can find comfort in this: You’re not alone.
No one has all the answers. No one knows what he or she is doing, and even if they do in the temporary, in the now, they can’t possibly know this forever.
And yet…
We live in a culture where one of the greatest social disgraces is not having an opinion, so we often form our “opinions” based on superficial impressions or the borrowed ideas of others, without investing the time and thought that cultivating true conviction necessitates. We then go around asserting these donned opinions and clinging to them as anchors to our own reality. It’s enormously disorienting to simply say,
“I don’t know.”
We don’t have all the answers because we can’t possibly know all the answers. And this is good.
We’re not supposed to know everything.
We all go through this—the indecision, the fear, the anxiety, and the loneliness. But this will pass. You will not live in this scared place forever. You will understand some of the ways of the world, and you will discover some of the answers.
So please know that you’re not wrong for feeling clueless, for feeling like you don’t have it all figured out—that’s not a reality, no matter how hard you try.
Life doesn’t work that way.
It’s okay not to know all the answers. It’s better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong.
Remember, pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
Affirmation: I am not worth any less when I don’t have the answers.
Hang onto hope,
Naks.
