Bonjour…
You remember that time when you were a naïve kid thinking that adults seem to have their shit together?
The thing is. Nobody knows what they’re doing. Seriously. Nobody.
Generally they’re making it up as they go. That person who always has the right answer in meetings? They googled it five minutes before walking in.
That friend with the perfect Instagram feed and the dream job? They cried in their car last Tuesday because they felt like a complete fraud.
We’re all winging it.
Life isn’t linear like a piece of music where you follow the sheet music from beginning to end.
It’s more like jazz.
You know a few basic chords, you have a rough sense of where you want to go, but mostly you’re improvising and hoping it sounds good.
The people who seem most successful aren’t the ones who had everything figured out from day one.
They’re the ones who got comfortable with uncertainty, who learned to (And I’m gonna be a little sick in my mouth when I write this next word) PIVOT when their plans fell apart, who embraced the beautiful messiness of not knowing what comes next.
Your career path doesn’t need to make sense. Your life doesn’t need to follow anyone else’s timeline. There’s no instruction manual for being human, no secret handbook that everyone else got but you somehow missed.
We’re all just figuring it out one day at a time, making mistakes, learning from them, and pretending we knew what we were doing all along.
The sooner you accept that everyone is improvising, the sooner you can stop feeling behind and start enjoying the show.
The world is going to hell in a handbasket that is soaked in Kersone while it’s lit on fire and as much as we can hope, pray and work out a strategy that may work as we go.
We’re just cracking on, learning and growing.
For the rest of this year and next year we’re gonna be forced to learn a whole bunch of new things to stay ahead, cause right now it looks like all of the economies are slowly starting to collapse.
Stephen Walker.