Uncertainty

I've been thinking about uncertainty a lot. Of course there is uncertainty out there but sometimes we think once we're past it, we'll never be "in it" again.

Today, I picked up my book. I am sending it to my new agent. Yes, friends, I finally got an agent for my third book. (And hopefully more after that.) She is very kind and very open, and I love that. She sees potential. I guess that's also her job. Anyway, I put my book in an envelope for her to send it off. And I opened it. The words looked so foreign. So far away. It was so long ago.

When I wrote Ramen Noodles, I was in a position of certainty. I had overcome my "after-college" period, whatever it was. I had overcome a quarterlife crisis, if that's what it was. I have grown. But things are still uncertain in other areas of my life. Things get more complicated. You just keep going through periods of uncertainty.

If you're feeling uncertain today, just remember that it will go. It will pass. It may come again, but if it does, you are better equipped to deal with it than you were in the past.