What determines growth, prosperity, and abundance?
How about this factor—uncertainty? More precisely, one’s ability to tolerate it for a long time.
Let’s look from the opposite angle. When a person is too tired, weak, scared, or greedy, he looks for quick and guaranteed fixes. Every moment of waiting turns his discomfort into torture.
Imagine a choice. On one side—immeasurable treasures, but not right away, only after years, and fate might interfere. On the other—a VIP all-inclusive vacation on a tropical island, with a private jet and chilled prosecco waiting.
A vulnerable state leaves no room for choice—he needs relief now. Even if it’s a fake solution, even if it harms later, it stops the pain for a moment. That’s all that matters.
Such a person always chooses certainty. And in doing so, he gets stuck in the past. The future has no way to slip into his life. Novelty flirts with him desperately, but he doesn’t respond.
Fortunately, the reverse is also true. Say you drill it small: learn to hold the fog. You carve and widen that "between" space, so the water of life can flow in.
Over time, in the in-between, torment quits. You start anticipating… what?
The Unknown Everything.
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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