Being able to sit with “I don’t know yet” is its own kind of peace.

Uncertainty is uncomfortable, so people reach for an answer early just to stop the feeling, and then spend a year committed to something chosen for the wrong reason. Not knowing yet is a legitimate state, often a more honest one than a confident plan. The discomfort is the price of keeping the question open. It gets easier to hold with practice.

When someone asks what you are doing next, try saying you have not decided rather than inventing something. Keep gathering information while the question stays open: a shift, a conversation, a trial of something. The answer usually arrives from doing rather than from deciding.