The Randomness of Life

 

For the longest time, I can take pride that I evolved through the years parallel to PLANNING and PLANNING.  Anything RANDOM was farthest from my mind, if at all.  YET, my realization like NOT so long ago, six years ago to be precise, is that we should be living life as it is, inclusive of everything that's RANDOM because contrary to our misconceptions, life is more RANDOM than planned, regardless your being a planner📗📙📘

Please DON'T get me wrong as I am NOT contradicting myself because all along, I always preach for PLANNING and PLANNING no less.  BUT let me qualify things here.  PLANNING is NOT inclusive.  Once you step out of your home and regardless WHETHER you will drive OR you're commuting, almost everything right outside your doorstep becomes random.  True, you planned to leave home way past the traffic peak hours OR you purposely waited for that heavy downpour to weaken BUT the bottom line here is that WHILE we are taught and reared to PLAN and PLAN, more importantly, handling and managing the random things in life would matter as much as PLANNING💥💥💥

NOT too long ago, I plotted my plans in that typical 'WBS' [Work Breakdown Structure] discipline with inter-dependencies and critical paths identified up front.  YET, along the way, I realized that I just CAN'T cover the whole nine yards because rather than striving for a thorough and perfect order of things, UNCERTAINTY creeps and that's WHEN we will realize those things in life WHICH are way beyond our control.  BUT so as NOT to scare you, WHILE we will bluntly preach that we need to embrace UNCERTAINTY, let's coaxed things in a subtle way by articulating that we need to embrace change, and letting go of any UNCERTAINTY that comes our way❎❎❎

WHICH means, once we can focus our personal actions MORE on the 'CONTROLLABLES', we can then navigate WHATEVER unexpected that surfaces and along the way, build up that resilience in the face of the 'insurmountable', if any.   And once we become more humble, less competitive [without being laidback and lazy] and more compassionate [without neglecting ourselves either], researches showed that we can likely find our 'happiness levels' and life quality can even steeply improve😊😊😊

Our takeaway:  Frankly, our brain abhors RANDOMNESS and instead it seeks patterns and craves control BUT RANDOM processes are fundamental in nature and are ubiquitous even in our everyday lives [YET most people seem NOT to understand them OR think much about them.  If you heard about that spine-tingling narrative of United Airlines flight attendant Elise O'Kane WHO was supposed to be in that ill-fated Flight UA 175 which rammed through the World Trade Center's North Tower BUT due to their computer system's glitch, she was WRONGLY assigned to another flight.  After retiring from UA, she trained to be a nurse because she admitted she wanted to 'GIVE BACK AND FULFILL' herself in life.  Just another testament of life's RANDOMNESS🙏🙏🙏