You don’t stumble onto purpose like lost keys. You follow it one step of obedience at a time.

Purpose is not an object waiting to be found in one revelatory afternoon. Waiting for that moment can eat years, because the search feels like progress while nothing is being done. It shows up the way a path does, one step at a time, and mostly in hindsight. The next step is usually obvious and unglamorous.

Take the thing in front of you that you already know you should do, and do it this week. The conversation you are avoiding, the class you signed up for, the promise you made. Direction becomes visible after several of those rather than before them, so stop trying to see the whole map first.