Life is not supposed to be certain or in any way really predictable. That's not how life is, or even what it is supposed to be.
The joy of life is in the uncertainty.
We've reached a situation in our world, in the Western world, in this luxurious, decadent, safe, controlled environment that we live in, where we would lose the ability to deal with anything that is not planned or happens out of the ordinary.
Our children expect certainty; they expect tomorrow to be exactly the same as today, and they expect today to be perfect. And it isn't, and it won't, and it can't be.
What then happens is that people who are able to accept uncertainty, let alone the few people who can embrace uncertainty, are the ones who will move forward, better and faster and longer into our societies.
Other people will find a possibility of living without any change, without any difference, in a safe, controlled, hermetically sealed bubble, but if you just look outside of that bubble, just for a minute, you will see that everything is changing quickly and in an uncertain fashion.
You can fight against that and try to produce certainty, try to be sure that your arguments are correct, try to make it so that you are never wrong and everything you do carries forward in a straight line, but you will lose.
The people who will win moving forward into the new, new, new world that we are in and the people that can adjust and pivot and swing.
It's actually always been this way; it's just that over the last little while, the world has tried to create a narrative for us.
That certainty is good, and uncertainty is bad, and variation, adjustment and development should not be necessary and are signs of failure.
Blog Post Number - 4465
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