If human beings are not built for uncertainty, then what are we built for?
Recently, while listening to the radio, I heard interviews by two different journalists, each questioning mental health professionals about issues people are having with the pandemic. Both journalists asked the same question: “What can people do in this time of uncertainty?” The two mental health practitioners responded exactly the same way, saying “We’re not built for uncertainty.”
When we consider uncertainty, especially in these challenging times, it is often accompanied by worry and. “Will I get sick?” “How will I pay the bills?” “How long with this pandemic last?” So much uncertainty, so much worry! All of us worry at some time, some for prolonged periods. Moreover, when you worry you are not in the present—you’re either getting sucked into the quicksand of the past or you’re lurching, fearfully, into an underdetermined future .
Take sports: If we’re not built for uncertainty, athletes would never get out on the ball field, or jump in the pool, or ski down the snowy slope. Athletes deal with uncertainty every single moment. They, each of us is meant to engage, to be in and move with the river of life and all it’s unpredictability and uncertainty. Otherwise we’d all be standing still, stuck on the banks of life, worrying, “Oh dear.
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