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A Random Universe?

Its funny how much randomness defines our lives and everything around us. And its funnier how we try to find order in all this randomness - in our lives and in things around us. We, as humans are designed not to really understand randomness. Our abilities are limited when it comes to understanding or truly grasping the randomness around us. And since we can't understand it, we assume its non-existence or maybe give less importance to its existence. This is more evident in the financial markets more than anything. People make charts, and graphs and do technical analysis to make sense of it all. But rarely do they beat the flip of a coin. Its in our nature to try to make sense and we spend a lot of energy doing that. In fact, a hell lot of energy and resources. But if we really do learn to accept randomness it will save mankind a lot of trouble and wasted resources. We make plans, only to see them fall apart. And the falling apart causes us misery and takes an emotional toll. And then what do we do? we make more plans. We try even harder to bring order. But what if there is no order and what if it meant to be that way. One of the characters that I truly admire (though not his sinister ideals) is the Joker from the batman series. He understood randomness, and hence nothing had value for him. He burnt money, and didn't care that he can die in the next moment when batman is holding him by his legs dangling off a skyscraper  He hated plans and truly believed there is no order in the universe. Albeit he takes his ideas to an extreme (the part I don't agree with!) and starts playing with (or rather destroying) other peoples lives. But at-least I can understand where he comes from, even though I don't understand (or agree with) where he goes.

In any case, I think you will be a much happier person if you just learn to accept the chaos, the randomness. Its not your fault, its part of nature, of the universe. This doesn't mean you completely give up on everything (like the Joker). You still make plans and have expectations, but be aware that randomness is going to play a major part in them. And the plans might not go as you expected. They might not work out.

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