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Hi -,
There is a quiet fear that many people carry.
It sounds like this:
“What if I’m wasting my life?”
Or perhaps:
“What if the people I’m trying to support are stuck, and I don’t know how to guide them forward?”
Whether we are questioning our own direction or witnessing someone else struggle to find theirs, the uncertainty can feel surprisingly heavy.
Not dramatically.
Not loudly.
Just a persistent whisper in the background.
You see other people moving forward.
Building careers.
Finding direction.
Talking about passion.
And you wonder:
Do I have that same clarity?
Or perhaps:
How can I help someone else find theirs?
But feeling lost is not a failure.
It is a stage of growth.
Think about learning to walk.
There is a long period where you stumble, hesitate, and wobble before taking steady steps.
No one calls that failure.
They call it development.
But as adults, we forget this.
We expect purpose to arrive fully formed - clear, confident, and certain.
Instead, it usually shows up quietly, through exploration, mistakes, and uncertainty.
Purpose is rarely discovered in one dramatic moment.
It is built through small experiments.
Trying something new.
Learning what energizes you.
Noticing what drains you.
Paying attention to what keeps pulling your curiosity forward.
That is not wasted time.
That is research. You become a walking and breathing experiment.
And research always looks messy before it becomes meaningful.
You do not find purpose by purely thinking about it.
You need to be moving.
Action is exploration – and it creates clarity.
Yours, with a never-ending questioning of purpose,
Itai
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