You Need to Accept This Fact to Live Peacefully
Getting comfortable with uncertainty
There is no getting around it. No matter how you approach life, there will always be an abundance of uncertainty.
You may have an idea what will happen tomorrow, but surprises always happen.
You may know what you want to do and have goals. But how often do they come to fruition, and how often do they change?
This is an uncomfortable thing to contemplate.
That’s normal. It makes us all uncomfortable.
To get through life peacefully, though, you need to accept this uncertainty and learn how to live with it.
Acceptance is the path to freedom, happiness, and peace.
Understanding reality
Life can be deceiving for many reasons. We often fail to realize how fragile and unpredictable it really is.
We see companies turn into multi-billion-dollar enterprises in less than 5 years. We also see ultra-successful people lose it all in less time.
A healthy person could walk out of their house and literally get struck by lightning. And someone who smokes and is overweight can randomly live until 100.
We make predictions on how things will play out based on what we know. But outliers exist everywhere.
This is the reality of life. There is always an element of randomness.
Regardless, we need to make decisions based on what we know and try not to let the outliers get to us.
Uncertainty is unavoidable.
When things go wrong
If uncertainty is unavoidable, the question becomes, “What do we do when the unavoidable happens?”
The only answer is to accept, be aware and move on.
You can’t change what has already happened, and if things were to happen again, you would have made the same decision anyway.
You made that decision because it was the best decision at the time. Because, based on what you know, things were most likely to play out in your favour.
So, why get upset about an unpredictable outcome?
Accept it, be aware, and move on.
When it becomes too much
For some unlucky people, these unpredictable, unfortunate events can happen more often. And sometimes they happen one after another.
When this starts to happen, uncertainty can get to you.
A lot of people experienced this in 2020.
As businesses closed, people lost their jobs, got locked in their houses, died, got sick, and so on.
No one really knew what was going to happen. In fact, most “expert” models were horribly wrong.
Uncertainty became the norm, and that drove up anxiety worldwide.
Unfortunately, this led to a mental health crisis, and suicides skyrocketed.
This brings up the next question: “What do you do when it becomes too much?”
There is no easy answer.
It all comes down to slowing down and focusing on what is most certain.
At any point, you can close your eyes and find peace within yourself.
If you breathe in, it is quite certain you will breathe out after. And so, you can come to your breath whenever uncertainty is peaking.
Love is also certain.
Your family and friends love you, and you can always turn to them when you need to feel this to reassure you of some certainty in your life.
Even if you don’t have friends or family, you can find this love elsewhere.
This week alone, a customer smiled at me and thanked me for a great dinner, making me feel loved. At the coffee shop, the staff gave me a snack for free and thanked me for coming, making me feel loved.
Rest assured, there will always be love in the universe.
It is unavoidable, and that is okay
The funny part about uncertainty is that it actually is predictable. No matter what we do, we know there will be uncertainty.
Uncertainty is simply a part of our lives. The sooner we accept this fact, the sooner we can live a more peaceful life.
Fully accepting this reality leads to your freedom.
With this freedom, you can live peacefully and keep dancing.
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