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At any moment, uncertainty lies before us—shifting, unsteady.
No matter how much you defend yourself, plan ahead, or lay down straw, reality will find a way to stun you or knock you down.
Wars break out. Accidents happen. Cells in the body fail. In an instant, a man discovers himself to be fragile, helpless, exposed.
And then a Hole opens wide—the one we carefully covered with whatever we could: busyness, entertainment, culture, science, and so on.
The mind suddenly sees: “Oh, Anything At All Can Happen.”
The first reaction is, of course, fear. Shock. Horror. Negative scenarios begin to fall like spring snow—so bold and excessive, as if winter only stepped out for a smoke and now has returned for good.
So fearing a dark future is natural and normal.
But if that is true, then follow the logic all the way to the end.
If Absolutely Anything Can Happen, then a set of unknown but beneficial scenarios must exist too.
Yes, it is hard to even think about them. Harder still to believe they might come to us. But it does not matter to the scenarios. They simply exist.
Every phenomenon is ambivalent. Uncertainty contains both sides.
We know this from experience. Many times we have felt joyful surprise at a new event—sometimes right away, sometimes years later.
More than that, we remember how often a Wow-reversal has happened: from fear and despair at first, to gratitude and growth later.
Each time you do not believe it—and yet you want to experience it again. There is something thrilling in not only witnessing transformation, but becoming its co-author.
Flipping the sign of unpredictability makes our existence truly alive.
Fearing what might be Vs loving what is possible.
The dilemma vanishes when we manage to dissolve fear in love.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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