I learned this, at least, by my experiment: if you advance confidently in the direction or your dreams and endeavour to live the life you have imagined, you will meet with success unexpected in common hours. You will put things behind you and pass an invisible boundary.*
Henry David Thoreau
None of them has outrun uncertainty. They’ve simply found a way to stop treating it as the enemy. It turns out that not knowing is a necessary part of being alive in the world … Not knowing is part of the adventure.**
Bernadette Jiwa
Your imagination promises some escapade,
But you’ll need to experiment^
to avoid falling into a daydream.
You don’t know where this will end
or even if it will work,
But it’s as though you’ve awakened.
*Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (adapted by Nicholas Bone);
**Bernadette Jiwa’s Briefly blog: On Certainty;
^What would be the smallest iteration of what you’re imagining?
THIN|SILENCE 