Certainty? Ha!

When you feel you need some certainty about the future and feel you must get some information or reassurance or advice out of another person, stop. Even in the best case, all you’ll get is some encouraging words coming from someone as uncertain, in the end, as you. And a worst-case answer could ruin your day. Keep quiet, let go of your desire to know so you can rest easy (that’s overrated and hollow anyway), and just say, “Whatever happens, it’s nothing. It’s nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.”

There is no certainty. Deal with it. You’re projecting conjured-up futures based on no-longer-real past aspirations and fears. Future, not real! Past, not real! Only present is real (and even that’s pushing it, since it’s only real in the mind, which is a warped machine).

So what do you expect? Certainty? You can pinch yourself and feel it. Or stub your toe if you’re a masochist. It doesn’t matter. It’s nothing. If you’re always as much here/now as possible, you can be certain you’re always here/now. That’s about the only thing that’s certain.


— Gabriel Fenteany, June 6, 2016

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