Become Lost

Over this past year I’ve felt more lost than I thought I could be. I’m a man who has always been determined to grow, to follow the steps that are needed to become successful. When everything is planned out for you it becomes easy to fall in line and just show up.

School is one such example of this. Show up every day, do your work and get good grades. You are promised that this will make you successful, and the better the grades the more you are considered person of potential. Your social and future financial situations all depend on this. The best way is to show up and work hard. We were young and thought nothing if it, it was all we knew and we trusted in this without thought.

Success is not dependent on just one pillar of life. It is much more, and yet it is not taught in school. School is defined as the primary pillar of life that matters from ages 5-22 (depending on your education level). These years are defined and built on a pillar that won’t last. What happens when it doesn’t exist anymore.

It creates a void.

All your previous success or failure, matters little if there is no pillar there anymore.

A clean slate is given to you, and you are to create anew.

The tools you needed from school were not practiced preparing you for your journey ahead. Failure is your teacher, try and try again. Find what works for you and try again because you were never told the best way.

Being lost is not a failure, it is success in finding your current life is not what you wanted. Becoming more lost than you ever had before is the change you needed to wake up. To realize that a new chapter is beginning.

I was so lost for a year, just to realize that I needed that time to digest the who, what and where, I wanted to truly be. To be the best version of myself I needed to reflect, to be so lost that I tried everything and failed. Struggling to find my true self and unleash my potential.

I now know through reflection of my hardships and struggle during this past year, that I was always exactly where I needed to be. I wasn’t moving too fast or slow, I was moving at the pace that led to an awaking.

Become lost. Become so lost you don’t know the who, what or where. Being lost is a gift because it is the beginning of a new wonderful life chapter that you wrote page by page. Only you can bring about your next chapter by being lost to find what you truly want.