Trusting your gut
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how." This was a line I came across while reading The Artist Way, written by Julia Cameron. We don't need to see what's over the bar before we cross it. Like Norman Vincent Peale would say, "Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow." It is common with us to wait till the cost is clear before we move. Sometimes we may never get to access waits for us ahead of the coast while waiting for it to get clear.
Sometime uncertainty can be a beautiful thing. If we know everything ahead of the right time it sucks out the fun. The future was designed not to be known. It takes bravery and courage to not know what lies ahead or how the turn out may be but we still go ahead with it. Many people fail to get started because of "...what if?" What if I don't succeed? What if I lose everything? What if I lose everything?
It's amazing how leverage on the negative uncertainties and put aside the positive ones. For every negative possibility or assumption there is always a positive one countering it. And when we conclude on either of them, there's a high chance that that is what we will experience. Nobody that succeeded at a thing had any assurance that it would work but they went ahead with it. If we bear an idea in our minds and we think that no one else has that idea because it seems so unique or because we have not heard anyone talk about it then we are wrong.
For every idea we get, there's a large number of people out there with that idea. The reason why we can attribute certain things that came to be to certain people is not because they were the only ones who were smart enough to think of it but because they focused on the "...what if..." in the positive aspects while the rest focused on the "...what if..." in the negative aspect. They didn't see themselves in a magical mirror where they were holding an award of excellence signifying that they're idea would be a huge success if they worked on it, but they worked on it anyway.
Life is just like attending a concert, you don't know how the performances would look like. That suspense is what makes it worthwhile. That feeling of adrenaline that keeps our hearts pumping. That's the beauty of life because the day our hearts stop beating is when we die. We should live lives like going on an adventure, seeking the unknown.
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