Acknowledge you do not know everything. Embrace being a lifelong learner.
Accept that the way you imagine it will be, will be different.
Find beauty in mystery, surprise, experience of wordlessness, and the distance of time.
Knowing the outcome before its occurrence is humanly impossible.
Know you will not always have a way to describe what you are trying to articulate.
You will never know the wisdom of your future self before you’re there.
Accept uncertainty as a foundation of life.
© Victoria Venturella, MA, Wait a Meta, Existential Dialogues
The Power of The Future Not Yet
There is a path from here to there paved in reels of undeveloped film.
You are the only one who will ever see it the way you experienced it.
You get to keep all the pictures.
You can choose which way to go
but you’ll never be for certain the future of not yet.
Life lives in mystery, love, and what’s not yet known.
The power of the future not yet.
© Victoria Venturella, MA, The Existentialist, Existential Dialogues
How to live with uncertainty:
· Acknowledge you do not know everything. There are the known knowns, the known unknowns, and the unknown unknowns.
· Embrace being a life-long learner.
· Accept that the way you imagine it will be, will be different.
· Find beauty in mystery, surprise, experience without translation, and the distance of time.
· Knowing the outcome before its occurrence is humanly impossible. You must accept you will never know exactly how your job, relationship, week, or day will go.
· Know you will not always have a way to describe what you want to articulate.
· You will never know the wisdom of your future self before you are there.
· You must accept that you may not know the reason for why any of this exists in your lifetime.
· Accept uncertainty as a foundation of life.
· You are an architect of your own life. Build the frame for experience to live in.
Author: Victoria Venturella, MA, Existential Phenomenological Psychotherapist, LMHCA
© Victoria Venturella, Existential Dialogues, The Existentialist
