Escaping aimlessness

If you’re in a state of aimlessness, your one and only priority is to aim. 

What should you aim at? It doesn’t matter. Does the person stuck in quicksand care what pulls them out? No, the only thing that matters is escaping. You get out of aimlessness by aiming, it doesn’t matter what you aim at, you just need to aim at something. 

Here’s the secret: what you initially aim at isn’t as important as you think it is – you can change it as often as you want. 

Here’s another secret: if you’re really stuck, it helps to do something completely foreign. Like taking an acting class as someone who’s never done theater, or a voice class as someone who doesn’t sing. Or shadowing someone in a profession you have no connection to, or volunteering for an organization you didn’t know existed (until you looked it up just now). Your priority is to escape aimlessness. Hidden branches often exist in places you’ve never explored.