They Say You Don’t Know What the Future Will Bring — But That’s Not True!

There Are So Many Things You Actually Can Predict!

You say you don’t know what the future will bring? — Come on! That’s not true!

You can believe things and anybody can tell you that it is not going to happen. You can believe that you’re gonna win the big prize in the big lottery. You can foster that dream, but you know very well inside yourself that it will not happen.

You know that you’re not gonna win what you secretly dream of winning, you’re not gonna win 1M$. But I can say with big certitude that if you buy lottery tickets for 20 or 50$ every week, I can almost guarantee that you will win 10 or 20, or even 50$ from time to time, but not every week, oh no! But you will never win the million.

In Norway’s Saturday Lottery the players have to pick out seven winning numbers of 34 possible. It produces just over 5.3 million different combinations. This means that if you play one row, the theoretical probability of getting seven straight is 1: 5.37 million per row.

It’s easy to predict what’s going to happen: You’re not going to win, and you should know it. What is certain, what is predictable, is that if you invest an amount of money every week in gambling, you are going to loose that money. Almost all of it. That’s predictable.

The same applies for other beliefs we humans use to support us during our daily striving.

The way we think and the ways we act are decisive for what happens in the future. That’s a fact.

Imagine I go out in the street and hit with my fist a random man in the face. Can you tell me what would happen then? It is not very difficult to predict. The offended person would hit back at me, or yell at me, and/or call the police and accuse get me for violent assault. That’s not difficult to foresee.

So think of anything that is important in life! Think of health, disease, fitness. Think of love and relationships, think of anything that counts in your life.

What will happen in the future is predictable, at least if you are interested in finding out what will happen.

If you exercise several days a week, if you eat healthy and avoid drinking too much — what happens then to your health and your life expectancy?

It is predictable. You will live longer. And better.

Of course this prediction cannot exclude bad surprises. No one can guarantee that you will not be hit by some fatal disease, or that an insane driver will hit you with his car when you’re crossing the street in the middle of the crosswalk.

But except accidental incidents like these we can with great accuracy predict that if you live in a healthy way and avoid abuse of any kind, you have the best chances to live a long and healthy life. A longer and more healthy life than if you do not pay attention to these factors. So the future is predictable. Not 100%, but not far from.

The way you think of the future is important for how your future will turn out to be.

Our fear of future is connected to our need for security. It is probably a quite normal and fundamental thing for humans to feel insecure and to develop pessimistic thoughts about the future.

We are brought up to believe that we cannot predict the future and that the only thing that is certain is that we some day are going to die.

The latter is true. Death exists, death is certain, dying is part of every individual’s future.

And 1 + 1 = 2, that’s a fact too. 100%. But otherwise there is so much that is not 100 but close to 100% predictable.

Take love and relationships, for instance.

There are many presuppositions that say that we’re getting the love we deserve, but maybe not the love we’d wished we had.

That’s a deterministic and negative way of thinking. If we suppose that most people are honest, righteous people who want to do the right things and contribute to a happy life for themselves and their family members and friends, I can say with great certainty that the chances people will achieve that happiness and feel safe in their lives are good.

If a man or a woman meets a person and falls in love, the two of them will certainly live days and weeks, months and years in happiness. But sooner or later the couple will meet the gray everyday life, and they will sometimes start having difficulties in the relationship.

That’s a fact, and it happens to a lot of people. The number of broken relationships and divorces prove it. But difficulties in the relationship do not necessarily need to cause a breakup and a divorce.

Take a person, let’s say me. I have been married for more than 3 decades with the same woman. I know her well, and she knows me. I have been angry at her, and she has been very angry with me. I know her character, I know her good sides and her weaknesses. She knows me well too. She knows my good sides and my weaknesses.

I can predict with great certainty that we will continue to be together, that we will stay with each other until the end of our lives, i.e. until one of us dies.

How can I say that? I can say it with great certainty, because I know her and she knows me. I know that we both are emotionally stable and that we are fine tuned when it comes to preferences, dreams and goals. Not that we are not different also, but we know of and are willing to accept our differences.

Almost everything in life is more or less predictable.

If I believe I will succeed as a writer, there are bigger chances I will succeed than if I don’t believe in my writing capacities and in my abilities to explore and make use of the marketing and expanding possibilities that the internet offers me.

If I invest in myself, both physically and mentally, I will grow, I will live a more rich and fulfilled life. That’s predictable!

On the other hand, if I don’t care, if I stop being active, optimistic and realistic, there are great chances I will experience failure and deception.

I think I know fairly well what the future will bring.

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