{"id":1185169,"date":"2026-01-26T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/?p=1185169"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:46:35","slug":"when-its-right-youll-know-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/marisa-donnelly\/2026\/01\/when-its-right-youll-know-2\/","title":{"rendered":"When It\u2019s Right, You\u2019ll Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019ve heard that clich\u00e9 so many times before\u2014when you find the right person, when you get the right job, when you\u2019re on the right track, you\u2019ll know<\/em>\u2014and for the longest time I couldn\u2019t help but find that annoying. What does it mean to \u2018know\u2019? Would I have this fluttering heartbeat, this subconscious sense, this universe-given affirmation that this is exactly who I\u2019m supposed to be loving or what I\u2019m supposed to be doing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went through life like a regular person, exploring ideas, dating people<\/a>, taking jobs I cared about or didn\u2019t, making mistakes. I never felt like I was fully \u2018right,\u2019 like I had everything together, like everything made perfect sense. Until it did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until, suddenly, there wasn\u2019t any doubt in my mind. Until I felt a sense of peace in my heart, in my soul. Until I realized that all the time before I\u2019d been running around, searching in the wrong places, bouncing from thing to thing never feeling satisfied or like I belonged. Until I realized that my life had the potential to be good, really good,<\/em> if I simply let it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d always been told that the \u2018right\u2019 things will come. People I looked up to cautioned me to not settle for anything less than what felt absolutely perfect\u2014and not that it would stay that way, but that I shouldn\u2019t compromise out of fear, or time, or circumstance. That I should fall when I\u2019m ready into arms that are ready in return. That I should only accept a job if it tugs at my heartstrings. That I should chase any dream or goal that gives me shivers, without looking back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was reminded, time and time again, that things would fall into place when I trusted God\u2019s plan<\/a> instead of trying to carve my own. That when I finally surrendered all my selfish desires in exchange for His story, I would find peace. I would find my purpose. I would find where I was meant to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I spent so much time fighting that, thinking I knew everything, knew what was \u2018right,\u2019 knew who I was. I spent so much damn time ignoring, trying to pretend relationships were healthy or jobs were fun when I knew, deep down, that wasn\u2019t the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought I could simply make things work out in my favor if I just ignored all those feelings in the back of my mind that this wasn\u2019t what I was supposed to be doing, who I was supposed to be. But the truth was, the more I tried to shut out those inner doubts, the more they surfaced.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until I was forced to acknowledge the truth of that old clich\u00e9\u2014when it\u2019s right you\u2019ll know<\/em>\u2014and it wasn\u2019t right, I could feel it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People I loved, people I admired, even Christians who first sparked my faith told me that I would feel a calm in my chest, feel the Spirit working through me, feel some sort of confirmation that I was on the right track, with the right person, doing the right thing. And I didn\u2019t understand what they meant until I felt that exact thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth is, when it\u2019s right, you will<\/em> know. You will have this sense of everything around you\u2014peace, understanding, joy, rest. You won\u2019t be afraid.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ll know that things might not always stay \u2018right,\u2019 and they definitely won\u2019t be perfect, but that wasn\u2019t what you were searching for anyways. You\u2019ll know that opportunities and people will fall together and fall apart in the natural progression of life, but you\u2019ll have this inner mantra, inner verification of all that you\u2019ve been searching for finally coming to fruition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ll feel like God is speaking to you, like your mind has finally opened, like your soul can finally dance and sing and be filled. You\u2019ll look at the person you\u2019re with and see all their blemishes and bruises and messy past and accept them, love them, choose them<\/a> because they are yours<\/em>, and what you have is real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ll understand why it didn\u2019t work out with the people who came before, why that old job didn\u2019t satisfy the longing in your chest, why you always felt like something was missing, or off, or incomplete. You\u2019ll send a prayer to the sky for all that you\u2019ve finally realized\u2014when you let go and let Him, true beauty blooms everywhere you touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But most of all, you\u2019ll understand the meaning behind that old clich\u00e9. That we spend our days searching, wandering, desperate for something real so much so, we settle for anything close instead of being patient<\/a> and letting what\u2019s meant to be find us. That when we find what\u2019s right, we\u2019ll understand somewhere deep inside our hearts. That without a doubt, we\u2019ll know.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You will have this sense of everything around you\u2014peace, understanding, joy, rest. You won\u2019t be afraid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52923609,"featured_media":1185171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"thoughtcatalog_call_to_action":"","tc_post_redirect":"","thoughtcatalog_is_sponsored_content":"0","footnotes":""},"categories":[603229912],"tags":[],"anchortext":[],"posttemplate":[],"adcampaign":[],"coauthors":[313988948],"class_list":["post-1185169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-relationships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2026-01-03-Man-Kissing-Womans-Forehead-On-Beach-At-Sunset-Romance-Love-Tenderness.jpg","author_meta":null,"photo_credit":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52923609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185173,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185169\/revisions\/1185173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1185171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185169"},{"taxonomy":"anchortext","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/anchortext?post=1185169"},{"taxonomy":"posttemplate","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posttemplate?post=1185169"},{"taxonomy":"adcampaign","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adcampaign?post=1185169"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1185169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}