What makes sense circumstantially is not always the answer

When you're feeling like you're drowning or suffocating for whatever reason... It's very natural to desperately clutch for anything that makes sense at the time... Raft? Sometimes we can even imagine the raft, hope for it so hard that we may imagine whatever we touch first that remotely feels like a raft. It's in this analogy (possibly) that we shouldn't always jump for familiarity or whatever first makes sense. Comfort is not necessarily the best solution. While there are hundreds of solutions... and yes, hundreds... are we familiar to all the possible solutions that can benefit us best? That is to say... Hindsight is a powerful perspective. We often cannot see in the present. When we are drowning.. or feel like drowning.. all we want is a way out.

Drowning and feelings of drowning are separate. I understand and empathise so deeply the feelings of immense suffocation. You just want an answer. But to play the abstract card... Are we truly suffocating? Are we really? Sometimes feelings are amplified when we are in fight or flight mode. When our emotions run rampant and our adrenaline feels like 100km an hour. Time. Clarity. Those are two things that often go hand in hand. Clarity cannot come when you are feeling like you are suffocating. You may wish for clarity but it will not come. Time. Experience. Trust the process. Trust an accumulation of experience. It is difficult. VERY difficult. But only through experience, faith, consistency... do these delayed gratification come to fruition.