It’s the leftovers of my early morning espresso.  Powerful.  It’s all I can smell.

Not everything that we need to find smells as strongly as my coffee, though – like the direction we ought to go in our lives, the decision we need to make, the next step to take.

We wish all of these things “smelt” stronger, but what we have to do is trust our sense of smell.  What we have  to do is trust what we already have: our curiosity and passions and skills.

If the “smell” is strong, there’s probably already a whole load of people who’ve found it.  But the faint, the hidden, the obscure, the needing-to-be-found-for-the-future-to-emerge kinds of smell, these require people with a developed sense of smell.

And , if I may put it this way, be the nose, not the smell.