My friends, uncertainty and ambiguity
gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": certainty and uncertainty
The older I get, the less I am certain about things. That is not to say I don't know a lot. It is about seeing more shades of gray, realizing the shortness of my own vision as a tiny speck in a big beach full of sand. The older I get, the more comfortable I am with unknowingness. I am full of glee for now I find it fun and exciting, rather than a source of feeling stupid!
posted by Nancy White at 10:15 AM
3 Comments:
Hi Nancy, thats the beauty of getting older. We just have the insight now to realize what we don't know. When you are young, you are very arrogant and think you know everything. cheers Sarah
I've claimed for decades that I'm more comfortable than most that some answers were impossible to ascertain, like what happens in death. But my upbringing and school education pushed a black-and-white, deterministic world-view. I only just wrote, in the context of Facebook's Compare People application, that teenagers are compelled to find out where they fit in. Their self-esteem is built on that perception of certainty. I think the degree that we cope with uncertainty comes from our own inner happiness and belief that not everything in life needs to be goal-oriented or ranked.
I love the gaping void, and I love your take on not knowing everything. Learning is such a beautiful thing, it would be a shame to "stop" at some point in your life just because you feel you should.
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