"For Sure"

I recently read someones thoughts on the idea of certainty. The writer professed that there was a kind of comfort in knowing what lies ahead. While there seems to be logic to this idea I wonder if it's a fruitless hope. Do we truly want to know what lies ahead or do we just want what lies ahead to be sunshine, lollipops and rainbows everyday?(as the song goes) I'm pretty sure the answer is obvious. I really don't care to know when I'm gonna have the flu, or when the stock market is gonna go down (although that could be useful) or when my children are gonna be unhappy, or when I'm gonna die! I only want to know that things are gonna be good, and I want to know it with certainty.

Yah well that probably ain't gonna happen eh, and as such it occurs to me that the whole concept of achieving peace of mind through some foreknowledge of events is somewhat weak. In actual fact it could even be the exact opposite. I know that in my life at least, almost nothing has come to pass the way I thought it would. That's not to say that everything has been bad and in actual fact I have had more pleasant surprises then unpleasant ones. The point being that there have been many surprises, which further supports the idea that depending on a specific future is a hopeless wish. Think about it. All the wonderful things you plan on rarely pan out the way you hoped for, and most of ths shitty things you were certain were about to befall you either didn't come to pass, or turned out not to be shitty things at all.

In essence, certainty about bad things in the future brings me only pain today, and certainty about wonderful things in the future only brings me pain tomorrow.

So now that I have reasoned it out there is only one challenge left. How to still plan wisely for the future while being open to the vast range of variations and possibilities the future may hold. After all the idea of thinking in possibilities is in fact the opposite of thinking in certainty.

Is it possible that I'm up to the challenge! I'm not certain! The only thing I'm certain of is that it is possible! ........Whoa!........ That just made my head spin!

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."--- Wayne Dyer

"What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are."--- Tony Robbins

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peter