Randomness is increasingly a feature of my mundane life. I still have emotional difficulty handling randomness and so I must discover new ways to confront it. I do not believe I should ignore it [as most people around me seem to do] but confronting it with sheer anger as a I tend to do is no answer to the problem either. For example, yesterday, I was in a packed Supermarket where the lines at the checkout were deep. Ahead of me was a woman with nothing but a bottle of soda. Because this line had just been opened it was taking some effort to get it fully into gear. Finally... It was moving. At this point the women started waving the bottle around her head to catch the attention of her partner who seemingly had arrived at the back of the queue. Soon he was pushing forward to join her. I told him I would not let him past and I began to abuse him for introducing "randomness" into an orderly process. I became increasingly upset as he checked out his basket of goods. HE STOLE MY TIME...
Randomness will steal your time too unless you can manage to avoid it [see photo]
This prompts me to list a few basic needs for next year:
Reduce my needs so I can spend lavishly on them.
Eliminate, as far as possible, all my wants because this tactic will fund my lavish spending.
Manage my anger/temper when morons introduce "acts of randomness"- yet oppose them.
Limit the impact [on me] of all that "randomness" reported in the media.
Live outside/beyond the randomness generated by ideologues and morons.
Recognise the fact that hubris is a prime source of random/reckless acts.
Create a DMZ between "US" and "THEM" - live inside a free zone.
Prepare deflation because it will prime "randomness" in 2023.
Revise my old political views such that I might better understand global randomness.
Be more like "Alice in Wonderland" than a captive of Orwell's version of 1984.
Welcome all acts of randomness as a personal challenge to be overcome.
Find the "wisdom button" inside my head and press on it often.
Richard.
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