An Invisible Thread
An Invisible Thread
My future is unknown. What will be is unknown. What is unknown is unknown.
It is not that I do not try to know the unknown. I try to create knowability out of what is unknown. I try to be practical. I wouldn’t use the word realistic. Mainly practical.
While nonetheless I do make plans and create structure and direction in my life just as we all do in our own ways. I have found that while it is not entirely futile to consider the unknown future, it is not the best approach to hold with too much fixation upon the unknown future.
I know it is easier said than done. This unknown can be such a source of worry.
Life never turns out quite as we expect it. We know that. Sometimes painfully and at other times very happily. Sometimes wonderfully unexpected. Yet almost always not precisely as imagined. The key word is imagined.
I cannot know what will happen in the future. Yet I can know what is happening within me at this very moment. As each moment and day becomes what was previously known as the future we can start to notice that there is one thing we can know and rely upon.
This is the present knowing that is reading this and considering its meaning. That same knowing that is present now will be present with us later. It continues like an invisible thread that seamlessly weaves its way through our life. Always present. Always ready.
To be able to return to it in the midst of the uncertainty of unknowing is truly beneficial.
I can know this knowing. This knowing is the link between now and the future. In fact it is the only part that we can be sure about.
For me it has become important to step back and return to this simple knowing quality that makes me and all of us a human being. Sometimes I can know something and other times I can just allow the knowing to simply know.
This takes the anxious edge off of the uncertainty of unknowing because I always know I can simply know. I can take full responsibility for my own state. I can know myself.
This simple knowing is the best gift and also the most basic that I can offer to you and to myself.
Please enjoy it and make use of it.