Ms. Marisha

The hardest part of choosing a nontraditional path is resisting the urge to make uncertainty mean you're doing something wrong. We're used to hearing people's stories backward…once every strange decision has acquired context, capital, and every detour has been assigned meaning.

Living a story forward is different. 

You don't always know which experiment becomes important, which relationship becomes a bridge, which skill becomes a practice, which “wrong turn” becomes source material, or which season that looked like nothing was happening was actually rearranging everything.

I'm giving the present version of myself the grace we usually reserve for hindsight.

Keep walking. Keep noticing. Keep documenting.

The meaning of your vision doesn't arrive before the movement, it arrives because you decided to move.

I wrote the longer download I received during my morning walk that prompted this thought:

“There Is No Syllabus for This Part: A Morning Download on Self-Authorship, Old Rubrics & Learning to Trust a Path Still Being Paved” 🔗 in bio