RULE TO BREAK

Confident people know where they’re going

Oh no they don’t. Some confident people think they know where they’re going. Some people know where they’re headed in one respect or another – they have a career plan, or a dream of where they’d like to live, or an idea that they’d like to settle and have kids, or that they definitely don’t want kids. A few people even have some thoughts about how they’re going to reach these goals. But none of us really has a clue.

I know some people look enviably confident, but it is just a veneer. Either that or they’ve learned to be at ease with feeling lost, so they take it in their stride more readily. You see, no one can possibly know for sure where they’re going. That’s part of what makes life ...

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