How to Anchor Yourself in a Sea of Uncertainty?

i remember so clearly how the world got clear. Like, you i was never clear. I think i was kind of always mushy about things. Those are my friends. And then all a sudden you realize, like, my life has a beginning and an end, and i'm not wasting time. That diagnosis brought into immediate, urgent focus the fact that we're all here for a finite myriad of time. It felt like all the artifice just kind of fell away ad i got clear, not only about who my friends, but maybe more importantly, who i wanted to be friends with."