The Light Turned Off

You spend your whole life following a light, like a GPS telling you where to go.

Work harder. Achieve more. Keep moving. Keep proving yourself.

And then one day, the screen goes black.

That’s what happened to me.

Not on a boat — inside myself.

For years I thought I knew where I was going. I had goals, dreams, money, travel, plans. From the outside, it looked like I had direction.

But really, I was just following instructions I’d been given a long time ago.

Then suddenly, the light switched off.

And I realised something terrifying:

I didn’t actually know what I wanted.

Without the old map, I felt lost.

Like sailing at night with no GPS.

The boat is still moving. The ocean is still there. Life keeps going. But panic rises because the one thing you trusted to guide you no longer works.

And maybe that’s the real awakening.

Not becoming someone new.

But finally learning how to listen for yourself.

To stop staring at the screen and start reading the sea again.

The wind.

The silence.

Your body.

Your heart.

What feels true.

What feels heavy.

What feels alive.

The old GPS was built from achievement, approval, survival, and proving yourself.

But eventually it stops working.

And when it does, you begin the slow process of learning how to navigate from something deeper.

Not from pressure.

Not from fear.

But from truth.

So if the screen has gone black in your life lately — good.

It might mean you are finally learning how to sail on your own.