Although I have every intention of sleeping in the sun has other plans for me, reaching in between the sheers draped over my bedroom window to brush a kiss across my forehead just ahead of six bells. Some days I’m able to burrow under the sheets in extended slumber, but on this morning the philosophical business of life inexplicably rushes in, replacing the last lingering ephemera of blithe sweet dreams with the true and the questions.
“I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable”; “I want to get more confident being uncertain,” proclaims Kristen Armstrong, a talented Runners World blogger and author, her message flooding into my brain before I’m even able to fully rub the sleep out of my eyes. Can we really apply the comfort and confidence we cultivate living in the tried and true to those new and risky situations we know we need to explore if we’re going to follow our passion, realize our dreams, make life what we want it to be?
When you approach uncertainty with confidence and look for the comfort in what’s uncomfortable a funny thing happens. That line between the known and the unknown that you imagined to be so impenetrable begins to blur. It becomes hard to distinguish where the safe and the familiar ends and what you thought you were so afraid of begins. The decisions that seem impossible to make become absolutes you have no problem putting out there. You trust your gut because you trust yourself.
And then it dawns on you, you’ve taken a step forward.
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