Perspective On Predictions PartII

 What’s Risky in Seeking Peace and Joy?

So in the previous entry we started exploring  predictions/risks etc. because we often struggle with fear in seeking peace and joy or making  most chosen changes.  The reality is we make guesses based upon incomplete, outdated, and very stilted  data all the time.  This entry will belabor that point with a few more tidbits to chew on.

Making Choices… 

This set of blog entries is about  making choices.  Anybody that tells you they don’t worry  a few times. Now and again  about the choices they make are certifiable or just liars.  Some, maybe most  of us wonder if the choices we make  will lead to heaven/nirvana / the place of 72 virgins…whatever.  Well let’s say  that saints pretty much have a golden ticket to that show.  The odds  of someone becoming a saint (once submitted for sainthood by  the clerics) is approximately 1 in 20 million.  Since the chance that any of my former nuns would suggest such a thing  is about the same  as the chance  of my not listening to music on any given day (0%)  I’ll assume some of my choices will end up on the “he’s not getting into the pearly gates” scoreboard.  The question is…. Does that make me fear making some choices?  Well no… Seeking peace and joy requires living with uncertainty and if that  is translated int insecurity  that’s unfortunate….however why not ponder  on being  completely secure in the knowledge that uncertainty  will not only visit it will bring it’s pet skunk from time to time.  You’re no saint, I’m no saint but we can try to. To good. To and for each other and  our chances are better than one in 20,000,000 of understanding a shared experience  when we do.  

Moving Forward…

Well  our new year’s predictions often assume things will move forward, yet why do we make that assumption?  As adults we don’t always move forward and sometimes  we do things that  might  make the universe shake her head.  We are spending a lot of energy worrying about. Our mode of transportation  be it electric or gas powered.  One thing we can be  proud of is that adults in general have dismissed less fruitful  options.  What options?  Well kids have for generations learned to ride and bounce around on pogo sticks.  One in 115,000  adults who use a pogo stick wind up in the emergency room.  regardless of the zero emissions  and renewable fuel of a pogo stick there is no great call for adopting  any pogo quotient  by the year 2040.  So what’s the point.  We often make good choices and then forget that we do…. So we get more anxious and less able to conquer fear with  other more valuable emotions.  So next time  you wonder if you are making the right choice remember you didn’t go to prom on a pogo stick.  Seeking peace and joy  is sometimes an exercise  in believing inn what we have done enough to do the next thing.  

Finally Fitting in…

Sometimes we wonder and are afraid  because. We don’t think  we will fit in.  Well truth be told sometime we wont.  In fact 4.4 million left handed  people die. While using things designed for right handed people every year.  However, of all the left-handed people who die or don’t die using  these things that bnumber isn’t very big and there is little datat on people who only do some things left-handed.  I drink left-handed and given the graphics on the cup I think it might be a right-handed design.  Will that keep me from raising  a glass to my friends and others willing to care for their fellow man?  No way … Salute.

to sum up so far … don’t be afraid of not being perfect….your odds of first ballot salvation hall of fame are slim and  you like everyone are going to make mistakes.  Every now and then remind yourself that  you have made some really good guesses. And predictions and although you may fall down  you can generally count on the fact that seeking peace and joy will be a vehicle for a joyful meaningful life.  By the way my personal pogo stick  bouncing up record achieved at the age of 9 was 1209 bounces without falling off or stopping…but then it was time for the Lone Ranger or Batman…priorities are priorities.

finally connecting is powerful, and yet worrying about fitting in doesn’t  always have to dominate your choices…. You are sometime going to fit in when you least expect it and sometimes not…. 

Well one more entry on this and some “real” 2022  predictions  in the next blog…. I hope odds are good you’ll read it.