Foggy clarity How to exist in uncertainty
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we cannot always know the reason
nor logic to everything in this world
just like the biggest challenge we all
face in this time
but in any time is uncertainty
it is that feeling you know like the
heart beating faster
the palms start sweating the stomach
doesn’t seem to sit right
i keep thinking and you keep thinking
with me too
who am i what do i want to do what is my
place in this world
the answer that usually pops up is
i don’t know and honestly
that is the best answer you can give to
yourself
you may be wondering why so let me tell
you this
life is not certainty nor predicting the
future
nor seeing everything through life is
about standing tall
knowing that you’re fragile and knowing
that you don’t know
let me repeat that for you again life
is not certainty nor predicting the
future
nor seeing everything through life is
about standing
standing in the realm of fragility
knowing that you’re fragile
and knowing that you don’t know anything
at all
i don’t think it can get any clearer
than that nor can’t get any more
confusing than that
we fear uncertainty and we don’t usually
accept it
just like all of us fear to some degree
change it is quite sad
to see that the majority of their
connotations are negative
but i want to make this little thing
clear
we are not afraid of the change that
uncertainty brings
we’re not afraid of the feeling that
uncertainty brings
we’re afraid of the unknown outcome of
it we are afraid of the
i don’t know it gets thrown around a lot
i don’t know it takes a simple shoulder
shrug
and these three words to describe
whatever we are unable to answer
we are calculative of everything around
us that is what makes us human really
so it isn’t a surprise that we also want
to break down the i don’t know phrase
because it is in our nature our human
nature to want to predict
it is human nature to want stability and
comfort
in something or everything around us
because
nothing around us is stable and nothing
around us can bring comfort
and it is also but really also
important to know that it is human
nature to fear it all
and grasp a sense of light
self-actualization
or enlightenment to give a perspective
of
all that is surrounding us
change and uncertainty come in hand in
hand
like best friends in kindergarten and
they don’t know
anything or anyone so they just keep
each other protected because
how would they know what’s going to
happen how would they know the emotions
that come up with
they’re just protecting each other
certainty uncertainty and change are
protecting each other
we try to push them down a lot because
it is unpleasant
however we can suppress what we cannot
suppress what we are
doing or what we are bound to feel we
cannot suppress a vitality
of being in general emotions
thoughts and everything in between
they’re not us but they’re pieces of the
jigsaw
of each of our own and collective
journeys
and uncertainty itself is one of the
jigsaws
we do not know and that’s all right
making a structure of
plans helps but for seeing something
as that is what is going to happen it
won’t really give us
anything positive to focus on really we
will
continuously and always see the negative
aspects of it
that then group themselves up and become
ink
to your beautifully lively colorful eyes
that you’re watching with me right now
as a young person living in this day and
age
me i mean me like all of you listening
to me right now
it is tough i’m not going to deny
uncertainty and change are tough to
handle
manage and feel through before
i would crumble at the thought of being
and not being at the same time
that is what uncertainty can also be
like questioning yourself at
every step of the way you may ask
what way well it is the way you make it
the way is yours and nobody
nowadays thinks about it though
and so i let uncertainty run wild
wild wild wild like the wild west
actually like wild i mean i let it live
through me
and pass me i let it show me the worries
the fears and the void of the unknown
it is scary every inch of my body would
want to just collapse in the midst of
that ocean
of that void of that deep and unending
ocean
so a little story time would be
me looking at the mirror looking at the
ceiling
in the dark where
i don’t know i honestly don’t know i
don’t know what’s going on what’s
happening what am i doing
all i can think about is i don’t know
i’m
so scared i’m feeling uncertain i’m
feeling anxious
we ask ourselves why at those moments we
even ask ourselves why when we’re
going to school going to college going
to work on the commute on the way to
there
and it’s all about the fact that
we won’t know we don’t know we don’t
know why we feel like that it is that
little thing that we always keep
reminding ourselves to push back
back behind our bind and say this does
not exist
but actually i want to give you
something i want to give you three
things actually
i want to give you three things for you
to
really focus on when you do feel like
that
i want you to know first it is the
meaning that you attribute to everything
surrounding you
that makes you react the way you do
second reframing the perception of
events
as an experience can make you or break
you
third it is just to breathe
honestly just to breathe breathe because
breathing is life breathing is what is
us breathing is the only thing you can’t
control of yourself
and not in a zen but this or taoist way
or not in a mindfulness or meditation
way
but just in a human connection type of
way
just breathe like me and you
we’re humans and
lastly but not least i want you to
remind yourself whenever you take those
deep breaths
stand tall i am standing tall say to
yourself i am standing tall
in the midst of uncertainty thank you