Life is hardly simple. But it’s easy to think it was once, in a different time or at a younger age. Really, though, life was just as complicated then as it is now. What’s changed is that we can see the water now, all around us.
Is unpredictability a bug? Or a feature? Any good story worth telling (or living) hinges to some extent on not knowing what’s going to happen next.
We all have our darlings, don’t we? Those well-crafted memories and anecdotes and personal insights that we’ve been polishing and fine-tuning for years. Maybe even decades. But are they serving us? Or slowing us down?
When reality grabs hold of our best-laid plan and turns it into something so complicated that we can’t recognize it, don’t despair. This just means you’ve been handed a much better story to tell.