Practical thoughts on embracing uncertainty.
Drifting has a reputation for being aimless.
People assume if you don’t have a clear goal or a fixed plan, you must be lost. But I’ve never seen it that way. Drifting can be its own form of exploration: a way to move through the world without forcing everything into a destination.
Uncertainty doesn’t always mean confusion. Sometimes it means you’re open to seeing what emerges.
I’ve learned to think of uncertainty as a kind of potential energy. When you aren’t locked into a single outcome, you can notice options you’d have missed if you were focused only on arriving somewhere specific. There’s room to be surprised. There’s space to change your mind.
There are small practices that make drifting feel less intimidating.
Writing things down without editing. Walking without a route. Letting a question sit unanswered instead of immediately solving it. Giving yourself permission to be curious without expecting a tidy conclusion.
It can feel uncomfortable at first, especially if you’re used to measuring progress by how fast you can define things. But over time, that discomfort softens. You start to see that uncertainty isn’t a gap to fill. It’s a space to inhabit.
Drifting isn’t the opposite of direction. It’s just another way to move.
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