On the unofficial start of summer, I'm contemplating change, risk-taking, and uncertainty.
I'm generally pretty comfortable with change. I embrace it. I roll with it the best I can.
That strategy is helpful because in behavioral healthcare where I work there is constant change. It's not the most stable of industries. Private investors, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and changing healthcare laws and insurance policies require great flexibility.
I find too that sometimes life thrusts change upon you without checking in with you first. The rules change. What you anticipated happening, doesn't.
You can fight the current of change. Or you can ride the wave and let it take you where it may. I can try to control the process or instead trust the process. I find the latter easier but it requires a lot of letting go, risk-taking, and being okay with uncertainty.
My dad said yesterday that people of faith are okay with uncertainty. I try to anticipate unexpected things so as to navigate them better.
But it doesn't always work that way. In times of uncertainty I find the foundation of faith in my life very helpful. I go back to my core values and do the next right thing.
This doesn't mean I don't feel fear or anxiety. Courageous people feel the fear and do it anyway.
Courageous people do the right next thing in the face of the uncertainties. They take the risk. They jump out of the boat, and find they indeed can walk on water. And if they do go under, they learn to float and flow in the current because there's no shame in sinking. It's what makes us human. We go under and rise back up.
The American write and mythologist Joseph Campbell wrote, "The big question is whether you are going to say yes to your adventure...We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
This summer I'm saying 'yes' to the life that awaits me. I'm saying 'yes' to change, risk-taking, and uncertainty.
I believe the adventure is well worth it.
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