Knowing

The coast of Cuba, absolutely breathtaking at any time of day

I know very few things, but I believe some stuff. I have had experiences that happened and formed my beliefs, but they are just that. They are only my beliefs.

I believe in the law of cause and effect, that for every action there is an equal reaction. What the reaction is, I don’t always know. I can speculate, postulate, formulate and hypothesize what could happen, what should happen, but ultimately I don’t know.

Things happen around me, and the way I look at them affects how I feel. It might be a big change in the economy, or an election that puts someone into a position of power who doesn’t seem fit to rule, or a natural disaster that ruins lives. I can let these events paralyze me with fear, or not. It’s my choice.

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