The unpredictability of life is an issue we all have
pondered upon at some point or the other. About how we draw out elaborate plans
for the future – a house, a car, a splendid vacation on some island in the
Caribbean or a relaxing weekend trip planned weeks in advance – and all these
plans shatter like a window that’s been hit by a rock because of some crisis
that popped out of nowhere. We all have plans; we all have schemes that we want
to implement. Why do we plan things in advance with such confidence when life
itself is based upon uncertainty? At one moment you could be on top of the food
chain and at the next you’re at the bottom. The one contingency that is never
addressed while drawing out elaborate sketches for the future is “uncertainty”.
You don’t know for sure whether you’ll be alive or dead. Tomorrow has its own
surprises. You could fall in love; you could get into a fight on your way to
college or work. You could have the time of your life sitting in a bar with
your so called friends, pay the bill, walk out and get hit by a vehicle that’ll
splatter your brains out in an artistic design over the canvas of a potholed
road. Are the plans a medium for hope? - The hope that you’ve secured control
over some part of your future. Here, people fail to realize that events that
occur in their lives can never be controlled or secured. Instead of dwelling in
the present we have people running around like scared animals vacillating
between the past and the future thinking that the answers to all their
questions lie within one of them. Life is unpredictable. The only certainty
that life offers is death. The uncertainty of death is how you die. So stop
focusing on your plans, schemes, the consequences of your actions or where you
might shove your genitals tomorrow. These are the last things you will think
about when the headlights of a vehicle flash before your eyes or when a gun
barrel is placed comfortably between your eyes. Do what you want to do, say
what you feel, feel what you want to feel and forget the future for it is
uncertain. Live the way you want to and not how society wants you to because at
some point, that will perish too.
