Certainty

The balance between confidence and certainty is a hard one to control. Certainty — an aggressive assertion of ones rightness — often compensates for a deflated confidence. How can you be so certain when the world is full of probabilities and human fickleness? The certainty can only get you so far.

This is where I stand on graduating college and going to Singapore. I have confidence in what I do and what I think, but the jarring realities of graduation have slowly begun to erode this foundation. There are just so many things you think you understand that you just do not. This is learning.

As to certainty, I have so little of it. The days ahead, Nationals, my trip itinerary — all of it remains up in the air. Confident but not certain. Principled in schedules, but in need of so much flexibility.