Navigating without maps
Clarity isn’t always possible. Signposts may be ambigious.
But you can grow accustomed to uncertainty. It can help to lean into doubt. To trust in the process. To look ahead, without looking for a destination.
I love a paper OS Map. The reassurance that comes from the mapped terrain, the familiarity of contour lines and symbols.
But there is no OS map for the inner landscape of getting to know a person, or working out what’s going on in your own head. Those internal journeys can feel disorientating, like a smoky, sand-strewn, windswept surface. Lines drawn with intent unexpectedly diverge. Marks that once had clarity are graduallly obscured.
Unsettling perhaps, but not necessarily unpleasant. But it can help to have an explorer’s sense of adventure as you set out.