It’s Okay to Not Know

 

There’s this quiet pressure — to have everything figured out by your 20s. A perfect plan. A straight path. The clarity to know exactly what you’re doing.

But honestly? Most of us don’t. We’re guessing. We’re adjusting. We’re hoping the next step makes a little more sense than the last.

Some days feel full of purpose. Others feel like wandering. And both are okay.

Because not knowing doesn’t mean you’re lost — it means you’re still becoming.

J.K. Rowling was in her mid-20s, broke, recently divorced, raising a child on her own, and writing in cafes. She said it herself — she felt like a failure in almost every way. And still, something was unfolding. Something quiet, steady, hers.

It wasn’t obvious at the time. It never is. But that phase — the uncertain one — became the foundation for everything she built later.

So if you're in a space where nothing feels certain right now, you're not doing it wrong. You're just in the part of the story that doesn’t have a name yet. The part where you're building without even knowing it.

Let it be messy. Let it take time. You don’t have to rush into clarity.

You’re allowed to pause, to question, to grow slowly.

And honestly? That’s enough.