We go through it all and we are never sure, never sure of anything. I can see why some minds can't take this; I can see why my own mind couldn't take it; we couldn't take the uncertainty, we buckle at the stress of the thousand unknowns. There is a set of working knowledge all sane people have, but these things are not certainty: that our family will be with us, that our friends will not abandon us, that we succeed in the stages of our educational and social development. We who become mad trade these meager attempts at absolutes with grand ruminations that we "know" to be truer, realer, surer than anything else we knew previous. We know great things.... It is strange to give them up again: get back to the mundane absolutes of a regular life. We go through life and we are never sure, for in that certainty madness lies — better faith that never knows but that it can question what is true.
charlotte
12:30pm wednesday, 21st april
It is often said that nothing is certain but death and taxes but like many commonplace beliefs it is not true.
Death is not the end and taxes can change, can be abolished. We crave security, we try to fix things in place but security is an illusion. The only absolute is change. All things change.
There is peace and grace and comfort in accepting the certainty of change. Death itself is change.
charlotte