Loving the Chaos

Since I began blogging in 2004, my website has been hacked half a dozen times. People I’ve never met have published scathing personal criticisms of me as a human being. Some have sent me hateful messages, including the occasional death threat. My ex-wife actually had to get the FBI involved to deal with a nasty online stalker. This stuff happens – it comes with the territory of sharing one’s life online.

I can predict that more bots will probe my website for vulnerabilities today because that’s been happening every hour of every day for many years. I can trust that bots will continue to behave as bots do. I can even log in to my web server and watch the bots attacking in real time.

In a similar vein, I can trust that humans will continue to behave as humans do. I can trust that sometimes they’ll behave like nasty, rotten scoundrels. I can also trust that sometimes they’ll behave as beautiful, compassionate, and brilliant beings of light and love.

To have a sensible model of clarity, we must account for this. Our model must allow room for chaos. Even if it’s been sunny for three weeks in a row, we must know that it will eventually rain again. Living in denial about that doesn’t serve us.

Expect that the unexpected will happen. Expect that heroes may become villains and that villains may become heroes… and that sometimes you won’t be able to tell which is which. Accept this as part of your reality. Know that sometimes you’ll be surprised and th...

Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - January 31, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Emotions Source Type: blogs