I don’t deal well with uncertainty, and I tend to assume that uncertainty holds a lot of danger. It’s easy for me to focus on all the bad things that could happen. This can be useful to some extent. After all, it’s good to be cautious and to make sure you’re doing things right. But sometimes we can take it too far, especially if we’ve got some sort of mental struggle going on.
But maybe uncertainty doesn’t have to work like that. Sure, something bad could happen, but something good could happen, too. Maybe you’ll meet someone interesting or see a funny dog or find a cool rock. Maybe you’ll even get to eat a burrito, or see a double rainbow (all the way across the sky!).
It’s easy to get stuck in your head. It’s not always bad to spend a bit of time there, but don’t let the fear of the unknown hold you up. There might just be something good out there. Actually, there probably is something good out there. And a lot of boring neutral stuff. In fact, most of what I’ve found out there is boring neutral stuff. Like billboards, big piles of mulch, storage units and vending machines that are invariably sold out of Dr Pepper, forcing me to settle for root beer.
But for real, I hope you at least find something better than billboards. Like a truck shaped like a hot dog, that’d be cool as hell. Or, well, I guess hell is hot, canonically. Hopefully I’m not being ambiguous there, although I guess a hot dog wouldn’t be cool, it would be hot (it’s in the name!), even though a truck shaped like a hot dog would be cool. So maybe saying “cool as hell”–with the assumption that hell is hot–does apply to this specific case of a hot dog truck.
That was certainly worth the careful consideration I gave it.
Maybe I’m being overscrupulous here, which is a bit hypocritical given my initial point was that uncertainty is okay. Is ensuring clarity the same thing as fearing uncertainty? It feels adjacent. I hope I haven’t made a point and then promptly invalidated it.
I suppose I have no choice but to consider this for the next eleven hours. I must retire to my study at once.