And as it turns out, so do people.
If you want something in your life, like a relationship or a business, then you have a vacuum, a space that wants to be filled.
The quality of what fills it is directly proportional to how comfortable you are sitting in that vacuum, how comfortable you are living with conditions you don’t want.
Do you leap into bed with the first person who so much as glances your way?
Do you pull the trigger on the first business opportunity that crosses your path?
Or do you sit still, in the vacuum, in discomfort, without that thing that you want?
Waiting.
Preparing.
For what’s right.
For what you deserve.
As humans we have an insatiable desire to explain untoward events so we can get on with solutions.
If a turkey were to assess the state of the world in early December, they would be forgiven for thinking all is well and that the farmer loves them.
When I was skiing professionally, I knew that standing on the edge of a cliff for longer didn’t make it any safer to drop.
On Monday I attended the funeral of a good friend of mine from medical school, Andy Greer. He died suddenly while working a shift at Christchurch Hospital. He was 40.