How to Find Yourself When You’re Feeling Lost
Follow synchronicities like you are tracking a wild animal. Forget neon signs, billboards, and airplanes towing banners. Look instead for the gnawed branch, wayward leaf, and disturbed debris. Compressions and depressions, points of contact. Imprints of movement.
Kill the myth of the authority figure, the big daddy, the guru who’s going to see, affirm, and protect you. Stretch out and luxuriate in the fact that it’s you who is going to do these things. It’s okay to need others, but marshal your resources, tap into that still brain, confer with your heart, sift through your experiences. You have more power than you realize.
Pay attention when your brain fuzzes over. Lean into the exact situations to which you don’t want to pay attention. These are gold — your blind spots — the places you need to grow some muscle.
