It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights but you can make the whole trip that way.
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing....
I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp...
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.