The Journey

What we hold tightly can be the very thing that causes suffering.  Being addicted to certainty never helps us - overthinking, hyper-vigilance, and rumination keep us stuck in imaginary futures, and replaying inaccurate pasts, not present in the now.  Not only that, but it also fuels fear-based living, and lack-based feeling!  Stop trying to calculate the outcome, and just rest in un-knowing.  This feels scary at first, but is ultimately a doorway towards lasting inner peace that is indestructible, 

come what may!

I get it, the world is insane - and when we crave comfort and normalcy within a landscape of chaos, we can turn to calculating millions of potential outcomes, planning for the fallout of every single one, running ourselves positively RAGGED - only to see, in the fullness of time, that not a single one of those possible outcomes actually happened.  Actually, the outcome that 

did occur was something we HADN’T even thought of.  

Yes, in our lives we must face complex, unfolding, and evolving situations - but does this hyper-vigilance actually HELP us?  Preparedness can slide into paranoia very easily, and we obsessively attempt to control our comfort by controlling everything around us.

​It can feel extremely frightening to let go of our anxieties and accept that we cannot know what lies ahead.  Perhaps we feel that not planning for what's ahead leaves us unprepared - we find it irresponsible not to be ten steps ahead - perhaps we would feel guilty if we didn't try to have some understanding of what is possible, or lazy for not knowing the potential map for trails ahead.  In some situations, yes - these are valuable things to do.  But when practicality turns into obsessiveness, it's time to step back and say 

"we'll cross that bridge when we get to it."  

Release control and allow what comes to naturally be realized, 

allow spontaneous outcomes to arise.