On Certainty

Certainty is a cruel mindset.  (Langer)

Have you ever just been so sure about a piddling, totally unimportant issue that you would bet the farm on it?  And can you remember the chagrin you probably experienced when you found out you were wrong?  My husband and I can sometimes get going on that kinda back and forth stuff, usually with unpleasant consequences, so we eventually have come to the point where we end most of our “things-we-absolutely-know-for-certain” with a big shrug and the comment “but who knows?  I don’t know nuttin.”

And you know, the older I get, the fewer things I really do know for certain!  I somehow thought it would be the other way around.  Which is kinda cool in a way, because it gives you lotsa “Wow!” or “Isn’t that amazing?” moments.

There’s a lot of potential surprises and discoveries and new things to learn about how to be in this astonishing universe of ours.   Give UN-certainty a try today.

Maybe.