The certainty in uncertainty

Life presents itself with several gifts to us. Each day we have a new, unique opportunity to grow and learn. Like with school, often we don't like the classes - it's far more fun to be out in the playground than sitting in the room hearing about history or a maths theory. But, like school, we don't really have an option on the classes we take. Life presents its beautiful gifts to us and we have to learn to face it.

The even more charming and enchanting thing about life is that it gives us multiple chances to learn something. How many times have you found in yourself in  a situation where you had felt the exact same away before? You didn't quite understand why that kept on happening? Well, that's the goodness of life. We are continually blessed with the opportunity to learn and to grow, but more than often we choose to ignore the tell-tell signs. It's far easier to think about the playground outside then to sit through that maths class.

I believe that life is full of cycles, several cycles. With every beginning comes an end, but with every ending comes a new beginning. Sometimes things don't quite shape out the way you had imagined, and life takes you on a different course than the one you had previously anticipated. Here, you can through a bit of a hissy-fit: how dare things not go the way I had planned?! But sometimes its at these very moments that we find the certainty in the uncertainty of life.

And it's at the times that life presents itself as the most unstable that you find the biggest certainty in your life. The reason I loved Brazil so much was because I was so uncertain of everything, that the things I was certain of became so clear. I had to be at my most vulnerable to learn more about myself. So, when life presents us with one of its many gifts (or when you have to sit through another class), we have two options: you can try and run or you can embrace the opportunity that is being unfolded in-front of you. You can give yourself the opportunity to become certain within the uncertainty.