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We talk about being sure as a derivation of being right:
– “Are you sure that the cinema starts at 20:00?”
– “Yes, I am sure it does”.
Being sure, being right, being safe are definitions we give about events, happenings. We can be certain about many things, while other things are naturally uncertain. Foucault once said – if I’m not mistaken in the book The words and things – that the human sciences leave the impression of uncertainty.
We can say that at a certain temperature, a certain amount of water will boil in so many minutes. But we can only give a sense of probability (one is likely to) about whether someone will say, do, or speak.
In other words, human behavior, individual or in groups – which is the object of study of the human sciences – always leaves this feeling of uncertainty by its very nature.
Are you sure about this?
Read – What you can and cannot control (one of my favorite texts)
And just as a candidate evaluated by me could have doubts and change direction in a short time, so can I. And so can you.
After all, the future is what we can never be sure of. Conditions can change and often do. What we will know tomorrow, we do not know today. The future means possibilities.
Which is why we don’t need to have all the answers about what we’ll be doing 5 years from now. Or have everything planned out and set up.
In the end, uncertainty is interesting because it surprises us. If we knew about the future like we know about the past, it wouldn’t be so much fun, would it?
Life as a Narrative
As many of you know, I did my Master’s in Literature. I studied the concept of identity (who am I?) using the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur and a kind of autobiographical youth novel by James Joyce. At the time, therefore, I studied several theories about biography and autobiography.
You can read my dissertation, here
When we are going to tell about our life, we are narrating, arranging facts in an orderly sequence of time. A common mistake, in any and all stories, is the so-called anachronism. We look at the past with the eyes of the present. This is obviously bad from a professional historian’s point of view, but for those of us who are looking into our own past, it is to some extent unavoidable.
What I mean is that what works, we tend to narrate as what we always wanted. “I always wanted to be a psychologist”, for example, because I studied psychology and it worked for me to work with psychology.
What didn’t work out very well, we can blame someone or circumstances, and maybe think it wasn’t really what we wanted or it wasn’t our beach. And, of course, since we’re the ones counting, it’s easy to omit certain things…
As far as the future is concerned, how can we tell about what hasn’t happened yet?
Half life ahead
Jung addressed the theme of half life (metanoia). He said that it is a period – between 35 and 45 years old – that there is a very important transformation in attitude, a greater concern with death and with what we are going to leave for the world.
An interesting technique is to imagine what our wake would be like or, less dramatically, think about how we would like our 80th birthday (or 100th) to be.
The idea is to reflect on how we want to be seen by other people. But, more than that, it’s imagining what we want to contribute to others. Leaving the world a little better than we found it or stop looking so much at yourself and also thinking about others.
You can do the technique here – What will people say about you on your 80th birthday?
See also – Texts on our website that address the theme – future
Conclusion
To conclude, a quote from Jung:
“We want to have certainties and not doubts, results and not experiences, but we don’t even realize that certainties can only arise through doubts and results only through experiences”.