I’ll never forget one experience skiing at Powder Mountain outside of Ogden, Utah. I was riding the Timberline lift to the top, and I noticed the trees (and even the chairlift) around me begin to fade away. They were being enveloped by fog. It’s one of nature’s natural occurrences that I am enamored with. 

Fog.

Depending on the density, fog conceals everything in its surrounding, revealing only what it wishes. It also fights fiercely to, quite literally, hang in there as long as possible, knowing the slightest change in weather conditions and it is gone…forever.

As I think back to that day, I am reminded of how fog is a great analogy for where I currently am in life. I’ve accomplished a lot (check out my “Road I’ve Traveled” tab). I only have one or two things left on my ‘bucket list’ left. I am a very blessed and fortunate man to have lived the life I have. But right now I am stuck…what do I do next? I am…caught in the fog…and not sure where to go. In fact part of what prompted me to start this blog was my therapist encouraging me to enter into the unknown.

Fog is a great analogy to living a life with no regrets. I think one of the reasons many of us never enter into the unknown is just that…it is unknown. We are too worried about if we will achieve success, wonder what others will think when we stumble and fall (and make no mistake if you take a risk you will fall!), try to figure out how to navigate life as safely as possible.

With the help of my therapist, I am learning to live in the moment. To be comfortable with what is right in front of me. Willingly entering into the unknown one step at a time. Life’s conditions can very quickly change and the moment will be gone…forever.

That day as I skied it began to change. As the sun’s rays intensified and the fog, as it must, began to retreat. I savored every moment. I watched it dissipate until it retreated altogether and that moment was gone…but a distant memory.

Are you willing to enter into the unknown? To live in the moment and savor it…before it is gone?