Sometimes you get an answer. (Of course, you always get an answer when you're actively searching for one, but it's exceptionally gratifying to get one when you least expect to.)
It was an ironic moment, because my answer came from a stranger, who was talking about precisely the moment that he was producing without even knowing it.
I'll call him jean-paul, because he lives a life where he has taken an admirable amount of control. And he's done some admirable things with the power and influence he does have. but i'm meandering aren't I? I'll digress...
Jean-Paul had been talking about a sailing trip and his own nerves about it. Self-doubt. He told me how he had just happened to be reading a book at this particular juncture of doubt, and it said 'the hardest part is leaving the dock; do it now!'.
Things here have been rocky, to say the least. And i've been thinking of lifting anchor. Its hard to do, for a hundred different reasons. Self doubt being the biggest.
It's such a delight when life almost fools you into believing that the universe itself is conspiring to deliver answers, precisely when you need them.
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