Mental bungee jumping

# Chapter 31

You are turning a corner and what is awaiting you is undefined and unclear. In other words, you don’t know what is coming. You are hoping for something profound and wonderful but there are no certainties here. Of course there never are in the future, even if you feel like there is a level of predictability in your life and future because of the trajectory you have been on for a while, I get that. But hear me well, there are no certainties ever. Only probabilities. Yes it is “likely” that your place of business will still be there in the morning and you will have a job - maybe.

Corners are what happen when you choose to veer sharply away from the course of probabilities and you throw yourself (and your life?) out into the universe and you don’t really have a sense of knowing how this will all turn out, but you just as likely know that you HAD to make this corner, because the status quo wasn’t cutting it any longer. I have turned a number of corners in the past, on very high probability jobs, that I was super good at, and that I could have worked for decades more. But I was coasting and I needed a challenge and change more than I needed high probabilities.

This particular corner is one I haven’t faced in many many years, this corner is about resources and financing the future. The previous corners weren’t significantly different financially, than the place I had turned from. This time, wow, it feels weightier and scarier and more fraught with danger and with larger stakes than before. Previous corners were about making a difference. This corner is about making a life without sacrificing all the differences we have been making in the world. You still have to turn this corner and live with the consequences. This is like mental bungee jumping.