If there's anything that I've ever chided myself for it's the sometimes narrow-mindedness view of life that seems to be the status quo for my thoughts. Things that we learn in Econs about being risk adverse seem to describe me to the T in a sense that I can barely plan about life for the future because the uncertainty and the possibility I might jinx it all drives me a little nuts.
In order to reorient my thought process to something that is a little more open to surprises I start to think about how things have developed in the past couple of years. Thing is, history is every changing and often we don't know about occurrences in the presence til they become documented in the past. Therefore, if we are already so lost about the present, how then can we ever assume to predict the future?
It is kinda interested though to realize how things really do change, normalities change, habits change, paradigms change. Not even talking about scientific theories here, just general LIFE. The way we get from place to place, the way we communicate. I often think, what does this century mean in the long span of human development, a lot? Awareness would be the key catalyst of it all. An awareness of self, of the world, of history and a documentation of it all in forms. Of course the paradox remains that the more we know, the more we realize we don't know.
For example, before flying became an option, sailing was the only way to get across the oceans. Land locked and having modes of transportation that could only go so far in the constraint of time, we were limited to a sphere of influence that extended only so far. Nowadays we don't need to move from our seats to have our minds blown away by things that exist and are only brought to our attention about its existence all this time, in the span of a few minutes and with the magical properties of google.
It's interesting.
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