“Each of us is worth more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
~Bryan Stevenson
We are worth more than the sum of what we have done, or what was done to us.
~From Will Trent series/Karen Slaughter
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“Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence…And I feel that we need a lot more wonder and a lot more silence in our lives”
― Fred Rogers
Certainty is the death of creativity, curiosity, and innovation.
~Lonerwolf (lonerwolf.com)
If you struggle with the sense that you don’t know what to do with your life, you’re not the only one.
This feeling can stir up some pretty disturbing feelings of existential dread, anxiety, confusion, and fear that maybe “you’re wasting your life” or whittling away your time meaninglessly.
Having no idea what to do with our life can make us feel like failures and imposters pretending to have it all together externally while feeling internally messy.
But here’s the thing: I believe having no idea what to do with your life is actually a good thing when embraced with open arms.
Strangely, accepting your feelings of “I don’t know what to do with my life” actually leads to the solution itself and the path that is uniquely yours.
Why Having No Idea What to Do With Your Life is Actually a Good Thing
“People, chained to monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties … they live like ants. – Bela Lugosi
I’m going to make a wild statement here:
Certainty is the death of creativity, curiosity, and innovation.
We’re taught that we “should” know what to do with our lives. But why? Why should we know what to “do” with our lives?
Shouldn’t life be an adventure, rather than a steady monotonous march to our graves?
~~Aletheia Luna & Mateo Sol (Lonerwolf.com)
“We are differently shaped. For the most malformed of us, it is not a shape of our own choosing. Except it is, and we are not malformed no matter what words we whisper inside our own hearts. It’s time to learn what these shapes we are can do instead of wishing to be diamonds. Even lumpy coal can be useful.” ~ Audrey Faye, Poet
Personally, I think coal is more useful than diamonds ….
Be kind, always.
“Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning.”
― S.C. Lourie
“Be confused, it’s where you begin to learn new things. Be broken, it’s where you begin to heal. Be frustrated, it’s where you start to make more authentic decisions. Be sad, because if we are brave enough we can hear our heart’s wisdom through it. Be whatever you are right now. No more hiding. You are worthy, always.”
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“None of us is just one thing. We’re not all good or all bad. We’re a blend of shadow and light. And those sparks only shine because of the darkness.”
~Peter Cawdron; Starship Mine
“All of space is mind-boggling to try to imagine. That’s why I love it so much. It makes you stretch your mind. People don’t stretch their minds enough. That’s why so many of them are narrow-minded.”
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde; Life, Loss and Puffins
Our attention brings everything to life and makes real what was previously unnoticed or unreal ….
~Joe Dispenza