Dance With The Unknown

A3, Charcoal drawing, printed on 310gsm Giclée fine art paper.
Available in different variants and with personalized messages.

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I used to be someone with a plan and then a back up plan of the plan and potentially another backup.

In any areas of my life - if I went traveling, when I was talking - thinking I have to be ready with my answer before I even knew the question. Same with work or my relationships.

I was planning to have something to ‘hold on to’ and to feel safe. Because I haven’t fully trusted myself and the present moment. I haven’t trusted that I’ll figure out the right thing to say, or the next place to go to.

Past few years and even more so months I’ve experienced moments in meditation and in life where the unknown was more exciting than the plan.

Where it felt so good not to know - because unknown opens our life to so many more possibilities than we could plan for. It goes beyond what our mind could come up with.

I’ve met the sweetest new friends I couldn’t just plan to meet. I moved and live a place I didn’t even know it exists a 13 months ago, yet it’s the best place I ever lived.

I got projects and new responsibilities in work I would not think I even want, yet they make me so happy.

All because one little step of a time I started trusting life and myself rather than creating a structure for potential outcomes.

It’s scary to surrender yet it’s so liberating and so worth it when we do.

Also don’t take me wrong I think it’s great and needed to have a vision of what we want in life and who we want to be. But then it’s also important to surrender to life. To listen and dance with all the opportunities (happy or sad, easy or hard) that bring us closer and closer to that feeling.

The ‘how it looks like’ becomes so much less important than ‘how it feels like.’