There was a flight school that I considered decades ago that had a black cat and number 13 on their planes. Their point was to say that it's not about luck but training, instruments and reason.
In movies, you'll see astronauts that fly by paying attention to their instruments and trusting their course. It's like pilots of planes that fly at night. Neither are flying by sight outside their craft. They don't need to do so. They trust what they know and what they know has nothing to do with sight or feelings. Recently, I've come to appreciate the need to do that more in life.
It is easy to be led to make rash decisions under the influence of emotions. While there is a place for adrenaline at times, I have learned that a lot of times we need to just step away for a moment, take a deep breath, and repeat what you know and make decisions on that. That's not just true to avoid decisions based on fear but on false hope. Hope is good, but it has to be based on real potential or is just delusional.
So, whatever you are doing or however you are guiding your life, don't do so flying by sight or emotions. You know what you need to do to get to where you want, given the information given to you. If that information changes, you can change your plans. But, absent that, continue forward, trusting your will and your skill to get you where you want to go.
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