Quality of life?

While some believe that knowing everything in life beforehand is the best way to live (and profess that life will be good if you know how to live it), I’d like to encourage you to subscribe to the school of thought that it’s fine, maybe better, to be uncertain. Convincing yourself that you know what you’re doing and are the Master of the Universe (your universe) may give you the strength to get out of bed each morning and answer yes to the question “Are you happy with what you’re doing today?”

On the other hand, saying “I don’t know… yet! But let’s find out” to the same question gets me through the day tension free without feeling any guilt in asking silly questions repeatedly.

Who’s to say which belief is correct? Both may be correct- after all, they seem to work. What worries me however is not which of the two is better, but what if both are wrong? Here’s why:

Now the people who follow the first train of thought may think that they’re strong (I don’t want to deny them the right to that) but it is this very false sense of strength that gets the weak ones through. And that is admirable as long as they don’t break down eventually.

Unfortunately, among those who go to the I Don’t Know school, are some of us who often get it wrong by thinking we’re being strong by taking the ‘path less trodden’, but all we do is say “I don’t know” and then do nothing else about it! I’m afraid we’ve found a guilt free way to console our conscience that it’s ok if we don’t know and then some strange force (I’m beginning to think fear) stops us from making the effort to go and find out. These people are the ones who are probably not “living”.