Nothing goes in a straight line.
I like saying that. I repeat it often.
Unsurprisingly, then, this Steven Pressfield quote really got through to me,
The birth of anything—stars and galaxies as well as people and animals—takes place amid disorder, confusion, and chaos. That’s our novel, our non-profit, our Korean vegan restaurant.
You and I must teach ourselves to be comfortable working in darkness and in crooked lines.
Because that’s the other hard part about it.
Not only is life all jumpy and bendy and predictably unpredictable, but its impossibly dark to look ahead, even though we want to try.
And that’s not to say we shouldn’t try, it’s just to remind us that the more comfortable we get working in those conditions, the more authentically creative - and true to ourselves - we can be.
So we’re lost and scared. Neutralize that. Get into the opportunities that contrast creates for us to play in.
It’s life. It’s the non-paths we’re on. It’s not easy but it’s a miracle.
