The unknown. What is it? What does it mean? Does it even exist if noone can know what it is? If it doesn’t exist then why can we be so afraid of it?
It is said that “what you don’t know can’t hurt you”, but it is often a lot easier to “know” than it is to be in the dark. The unknown can be one of the hardest things one has to face. If you know a situation, what is going to happen, then you can prepare yourself. You can accept the facts and move on with other things. However when you come across a situation where you are in the dark, perhaps not just you but everyone else involved too, how can you prepare? How can you move on?
I, myself, struggle with the unknown. I try to base things on facts. It is how my mind works. But when there are none available, no source to turn to for answers, it becomes difficult to deal with. I try to accept that I must concentrate on what I know, what is fact, and just let the rest play out on its own but I still am haunted by questions. What ifs and whens and whys. What is happening that I cannot see? Is there even anything? Is it paranoia? Questions that cannot be answered.
The only option is to ignore them. Push them to the back of my mind, and work with what I do know and what I feel. You cannot predict the future. The behaviour of people can be both predictable and spontaneous leaving no room for certainty. If we could see how things would turn out, things would be a lot simpler and difficult decisions would be easier to make. However the unknown remains to cloud our vision, and my brain continues to produce questions that demand answers. But the answers will never come…