The KNOWNs + UNKNOWNs + IN-BETWEENso In Life

 

YES YES yowwww, life is an equation indeed, that unholy combination of the KNOWNs, the UNKNOWNs and those IN-BETWEENs.  So, the potential next questions is:  HOW DO WE DEAL with the UNKNOWNs?  True, often we have a good grasp of the KNOWNs, the GIVENs. BUT the UNKNOWNs?  Stating the so obvious thing here, life is always filled with uncertainty, worries and apprehensions about the future.  The long and short of it, those are the UNKNOWNs we've got to deal in life.  At the end of the day, it is tying those loose ends and reconciling both KNOWNs and UNKNOWNs into an equation that can be worked on📗📙📘

So WHAT?  In Singapore, the most common expression is:  So HOW?  WHAT's all these UNKNOWNS in our life?  As they seem to be all around us, hovering all over us, never more so than even today, right?  WHETHER it's the global or regional conflicts, those bubbles bursting in the market, the economy pushing mortgage rates to shoot up and even down to our day-to-day personal finances, much of WHAT lies ahead in life is, more often, part of the UNKNOWNs.  And yet, as human beings, we tend to crave for security.  WHO does NOT want for things to be safe and certain, for us to have that sense of control of our lives and well-being!!!

I'll be the very first one to agree that all those UNKNOWNs can potentially leave us stressed and sometimes even anxious to the extent that we tend to feel powerless over the direction of our life.  True, before we know it, it drains our emotional 'battery' with us ending up trapped in that downward spiral of endless "WHAT IFs" and end up painting all those worst case scenarios about WHAT tomorrow and even the next-next days will bring us.  YES, to an extent, we're all different in HOW much those UNKNOWNs would impact our lives💚💛💜

Now, let's set the score straight.  Each of us is unique and different in HOW much all those UNKNOWNs can be tolerated in life.  I've met people WHO seem to relish and really enjoy taking risks and living a life midst of multiple UNKNOWNs.  Others?  YES, many of us will find having those UNKNOWNs and that sort of randomness of life deeply distressing💥💥💥

Our takeaway:  Let's face it, regardless of our mindsets, we all have limits and thresholds WHICH may be breached.  BUT if we feel overwhelmed by UNKNOWNs, many of us are in that same boat.  It's further imperative to note that no matter HOW helpless and hopeless we may feel, it is HOW we deal with the UNKNOWNs that will shape up the probable outcome arising from all these equations with multiple UNKNOWN variables😡😡😡😡