In Praise of Predictability

Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me atYour Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

Predictability.

We might say we like uncertainty, thrive on the fact that our lives are never the same one day to the next. But uncertainty drains us. It causes us to always think ahead, always wonder about what is coming and how we’ll deal with it. We sacrifice the present because we are focused on what might happen in the future. In the same wa...