Where to begin? (how to start when you feel lost or stuck)

Where to begin?
Right here.
With whatever you’ve got,
with the breath you forgot
you were holding,
with the thought that keeps tugging at you,
with the smallest step your body can take.
 
Go ahead,
begin here,
in the kitchen with yesterday’s dishes,
with the coffee that’s already gone cold
while you were busy calculating all the ways
you should have started differently.
 
So, go ahead,
start,
start with the sentence half-formed on your tongue,
the one you’ve been rehearsing in the shower,
in the car,
in the spaces between obligations.
 
Begin,
begin with your feet exactly where you’re standing,
even if it’s nowhere near
where you thought you’d be landing by now.
The ground here is solid enough.
It knows how to hold you.
 
So, go ahead,
begin,
begin afraid,
begin unmade,
begin anyway,
begin with your socks mismatched
and your heart still mending,
begin knowing that the path forms
only where your feet touch down,
that the map draws itself around your walking.
 
So, go ahead,
start,
start with one true thing you know:
how coffee tastes better in silence,
how a child’s laugh can crack you open,
how sorrow and joy share the same space
in your chest.
 
And I could say it again – 
“go ahead”,
but you’ve already begun – 
with the breath you’re having right now,
the one that found its way through traffic,
through the meeting that ran long,
through the night you couldn’t sleep,
and still, still deep,
this breath that insists on continuing.
 
So, you,
keep on going,
knowing
the world has been waiting for exactly
this version of you.
Right now.