Doubt
This weekend, I've been thinking about doubt. I'm struck by how often we think of doubt as negative and certainty as positive. And yet I'm not sure that I agree. Isn't doubt one of the things that protects us - from disappointment, from danger, from pain? And isn't certainty one of the things that blind us - to growth, to diversity, to reality? Here is an extract from a piece I wrote today as part of my Everyday Inspiration series:
Doubt is the path to awareness, while certainty is the road to naivety.
Doubt is like a mountaineer with a walking stick, which she uses to test the ground ahead before stepping into the unknown.
Certainty is like a blind man without a stick, stumbling forward in the misguided belief that all obstacles will be cleared from his path.
You can find the full piece of prose on my website at:
www.waynevisser.com/prose_doubt.htm.
POSTED BY WayneVisser.com AT 2/17/2008 12:47 PM
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This is not so much a diary as (in the spirit of blogging) where I share random thoughts as and when I think I have something vaguely interesting to say.
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