The answer all along

Often 
The answer you’re searching for 
Is an answer you’ve known all along.  
Often 
You don’t need to find it 
You just need to trust it.  

A telltale sign
You’ve known
An answer all along 
Is that you bump into it
Constantly.
Each time it seems 
Familiar
And comfortable
And right. 
Yet it also seems too much of something. 
Too obvious
Too far-fetched 
Too easy
Too challenging 
Too risky
Too banal. 
So you don’t follow it. 

Until
The seventh time you bump into it.
Or maybe the twenty-seventh time.
You catch it in a different light
And it transforms. 

Too obvious 
Becomes an angle that only you see. 

Too far-fetched 
Becomes an idea whose time has now arrived. 

Too easy 
Becomes what everyone else has overlooked. 

Too challenging
Becomes meaningful toil that gives you purpose. 

Too risky
Becomes the necessary spark to ignite a fire. 

Too banal
Becomes a simple yet elegantly effective plan.  

You can’t know 
When this subtle and profound transformation will happen. 
And you can’t force it.
You can only notice thoughts and feelings
You continually bump into
And ask
What are they trying to tell me?

Eventually 
Wrong paths 
Lead to 
Right paths 
That you were already standing on.

Eventually
You see and trust
What you already knew.