Mind the Gap: Allowing the Close

The gap always leads to a crossroads, asking you to choose: the identity that’s loud and begging you to hold on, or the one that’s flirting with you, slowly inching you forward into what feels like uncharted territory but is simply deeper into your own becoming. 

But know that instead of leaping before your system is ready, you can go gently. You can let the old fall way with ease, like a baby tooth that’s simply been outgrown. If you treat the process as inevitable, you fight it less, and the cycle completes in its own time. 

When you move through the cycle, it impacts not just your own life but everyone you come into contact with. It’s easy to look at what’s happening in the world and feel hopeless, like there’s nothing you can do about it. But that’s untrue. 

This is what you can do – let the cycle complete in your own life, so that it can contribute to its completion in the world around you. Evolution is inevitable, but how difficult or freeing we allow it to be is up to us – we can go down fighting, or we can boogie all the way.

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Throughout this exhibit, we’ve explored the forces of the gap through various lenses — before we dim the lights, we have a few more rooms to share: 

The Resilience of the In-Between by Sara Dotterer - “Life renews without permission.” Sara takes us through an understanding of nature’s approach to the gap, called ecotones – the biological term for where two ecosystems overlap, which are more biodiverse and generative than each habitat alone. 

Tiny, tiny whispers: on the evolution of a big idea - Wander through the story of our own evolution via a conversation with Lori & Veronika about a big idea’s transformation into a company dedicated to individual, organizational, and collective flourishing.

And finally, the bench – We invite you to leave your own mark on this exhibit by sharing something you’re in between. You’ll be in good company. 

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Before we go, a final reminder. 

You can’t see what’s on the other side before you leap. That’s not a design flaw – it is the design. Releasing old beliefs upgrades you to a new identity, making it much easier to inhabit than you can conceive from the old identity. This is the ultimate trick – you can’t see it, so you shy away. But the second you leap, life rearranges to meet you there. It’s an astonishing, humbling, awe-inspiring process. 

The more you go through it, the more you know what’s possible. So leap freely, wholeheartedly.

Thank you for wandering through the gap with us. For staying in it rather than rushing through.

Until next time,

Lori, Veronika, and the ABI team