Opening yourself up to the possibilities for your life can help you decide to make a life shift, but it will not help you deal with the uncertainty of being on a path that others don’t fully understand. In the months leading up to leaving my job and the year or two after quitting, I struggled to make sense of my journey. When others asked how I was doing, I felt compelled to give them proof that I had a plan and knew what I was doing. It was not until I found the philosopher Agnes Callard’s idea of an aspirational journey that I started to be more comfortable not knowing where I was headed.
