Not knowing what’s next is uncomfortable, but it’s also a blank page. Plenty of good things started there.

An empty stretch is unsettling largely because the mind fills uncertainty with the worst guess available. The same emptiness that feels like being lost is also the only condition in which something unplanned can arrive. Nobody with a fully booked future stumbles into anything.

While it is blank, be curious rather than decisive. Try one thing you would not have had room for if the plan had held, and see what it tells you. The next step usually appears through doing something rather than through thinking harder about it.