The two types of ways to look at the world, through ideas or through patterns, are very often grossly over-calculated. Or under-calculated. Take your pick, but the point is: how do we fit these views to match realities. Yes, realities, plural. Every person walking the earth has a slightly different reality, specific to each individual. And then, the even more complex question: how do all of these realities work together in this world? How can everyone want what they want and expect it to fit into their life paths and the intersecting ones unavoidable and taken for granted?

Anything that leads to anything is bound to shape our views. Values. Flexibilities. It’s paradigm. It’s a good thing. It’s a challenging, challenging thing, one that is fought a majority of the time. Usually one big irregularity or a series of smaller ones really aids in that shift. It can bring sacrifice and humility and loyalty. Or it can cause some harder and more painful things that would rather fall to ignorance.

How does this pertain to ideas and patterns being the ways of existence? Simple: Ideas reveal future and patterns reveal past. No matter how hard you try to live worry-free, in the present, full of enjoyment, the harsh truth of it is that’s not how we were made. Each of us, from the moment that Time first wrapped its fingers around our throats to commence our process of death, increasingly decay in our “mindness.” Not just in our health, but in single, miserable, continuous paths of thought and general brain power.

The moment some unexpected action is taken, it causes an inconsistent variable in the equation of humanity, and those scientists and mathematicians who rely on pattern don’t know how to handle it. Far be it from me to say that ideals prevail, but who can deny their usefulness, their exciting anomaly? Ask someone their preferred decision-making process, or their goals, or their moral limitations… they will all have something in common.

Why should limits of fear and embarrassment and expectations have the upper hand? That is when denial becomes prevalent, and denial has to be the worst way to live, on so many levels, for so many reasons.