"Incertitude"

Uncertainty is certain.

It blatantly reminds us that there is no assurance to everything. No matter how hard we try to make things the way they should be, nothing is guaranteed. 

Things may or may not happen. 

When this occurs, the mind at times becomes mistrustful of what lies ahead. 

Skeptic.

Suspicious.

And, in doubt.

One goes into unsettling thoughts of “What's life gonna be ?” “Why am I anxious?” “What's the point of starting if all ends the same way?” “What merit is there to live if tomorrow is never a promise?”

When we find ourselves athirst of certainty, the message is clear: we don't find comfort of the unknown. It's like walking blindfolded, unsure of what's the next step is going to be. Hence, we lose our anchorage.

"Where are we going?" The answer just flagrantly points to nowhere and we are, time and again, adrift in the abysmal stare of the unknown.

Being existentially lost is the concrete feeling of "self-abandonment." We let go of the "self" before we go through the process of "coming-to-be." Hence, alone in the middle of a crossroad with no definite direction in life, one retreats from moving forward. And, we find our lives without purpose and meaning. This leaves us feeling even more helpless, wasted, futile and denied of ourselves.

To recover from this quandary, we have to become "aware" of our "limited-ness", our very own "boundaries" in living. This includes the things which "we-can" and that which "we-can't" do. By doing so, we learn to "accept" that which works and that which doesn't. After all, isn't life all about creating our own way and "will it" to happen? 

Dr. Viktor Frankl, a holocaust survivor, once said:

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves... Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

True enough, no matter how bleak and unsteady the morrow is, we have to ready ourselves with this agonising journey. We must so because uncertainty is certain.

 It can't be changed. 

And there is no other way to counter it but to do something about. 

If we can't find a way, we must at least "create" one.

01.04.2020

05:30 PM

Digital Art by: Lot Jr Tabilid

Tool: Autodesk Sketchbook