A few years back, when our little girls still had chubby legs and asking endless questions that start with “why,” a friend and I were talking about where to send our children to school.
She had decided to send her daughter to her old grade school. I asked her why since she had complained about it so much in the past. She shrugged, “Better the devil you know.”
I stared at her while my mind silently screamed, “But why choose the devil at all?”
The unknown, the untried, the unfamiliar—they’re all scary. A new kind of teaching style. A job in an industry you don’t know. A new boss. A solo vacation to a place you’ve never been. Starting your own business.
It might not be a fit.
You might fail.
You might not get along.
You might hate it.
You might be risking it all, wasting your time—with nothing to show for it.
But what if it fits? What if you thrive? What if you love it? What if you succeed?
Yes, you won’t know for certain.
When you try something new, what if you can trust that you can course-correct when things don’t turn out as you think things will? What if the devil is truly in a place where things are safe, but there is also no risk, no learning, no growth? What if you can look at life as an adventure, a giant experiment, where you can follow your curiosity and test and learn and know more about yourself as a result?
What if you look at life and its possibilities to be your school?
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