You Never Know - And That's the Best Part

One of the sweetest feelings I know is this: 

You never know how anything’s going to work out… and it might just be so much more wonderful than you could have imagined. 

It’s a quiet thought. A hopeful one. And when you really let yourself believe it, it brings the most dear, peaceful feeling. Like being held by something greater. Like relaxing into life, knowing you don’t need to figure it all out. 

Because maybe—just maybe—life is working on something better than your best plans. 

The Pressure to Know 

Most people live under constant pressure to know. 

To know how things will turn out. To know the right next step. To know what their future holds. To know how a conversation will go. To know if it will all be okay. 

And because we can’t actually know, the mind rushes in to fill the gap—with worst-case scenarios, rigid plans, or anxious loops of thought. But that kind of knowing isn’t knowing. It’s guessing. It’s trying to protect ourselves from the unknown by pretending we’ve got it all mapped out. 

But that plan? That map? It usually keeps us small. It’s based on what we can imagine—not on what’s truly possible. 

And possibility often lives far beyond what our minds can see. 

The Unexpected is Where Life Comes Alive 

Think about the best things in your life. The moments that changed you, surprised you, softened you. The people who brought joy, the jobs that stretched you, the moves that shaped you, the insights that broke something open inside you. 

How many of them were part of your plan? 

How many arrived in a way you never expected? 

Life doesn’t follow our timelines. It rarely fits our vision boards. It moves in ways we can’t predict—and that’s where the magic lives. 

When we make peace with the unknown, we stop resisting the path we’re actually on. We stop comparing it to some imagined version of how things should be. And we start living in the beautiful, unfolding reality of what is. 

The Feeling of Possibility 

When you really let in the thought—“I don’t know how this will go, and it might be even better than I can imagine”—something shifts inside you. 

Your shoulders relax. Your chest softens. Your breath deepens. You return to presence. 

And from that space, a quieter kind of wisdom comes through. 

It’s not about positive thinking. It’s not about blind optimism. It’s about feeling into a deeper kind of trust. Trust in life’s intelligence. Trust in the creative potential behind everything. Trust in the idea that the unknown isn’t a threat—it’s an open door. 

And your mind doesn’t have to know what’s behind it in order for you to walk through. 

Letting Go, Letting Life In 

The more we try to control how life unfolds, the more we narrow what’s possible. We cling to our plans, our preferences, our projections. And in doing so, we sometimes miss the bigger, better thing trying to make its way to us. 

But when we let go—just a little—when we stop insisting and start allowing, life has room to surprise us. 

And it does. 

Again and again.