For me, there have been many false sureties, times when I found what it all meant, and that I could be relatively secure in that knowledge, regardless of "what else" might be.
Having gone through many iterations of my "world view" and built upon and destroyed it even more, I can say for sure that nothing is certain.
Given that, I'd like to proffer a way of being: doubt. I'd like us to doubt more. I'd especially like us to doubt that which we are certain about, even and especially when we doubt other people and their capacity, viewpoint, or their certainty. We may be right. But in all likelihood we are at least partially wrong, and being partially wrong means the capacity to self-correct, to take in new information, and to all-around keep growing. That's sort of the important structural element here: growth. It doesn't have to be perfect and it doesn't have to be all or nothing. It can't be, in fact. But it is important that growth remains possible.
And certainty can actually retard growth. Even as I write this I doubt. For instance, perhaps doubt can retard growth, too! And, well, that's true. There's no sure and fast way forward, much as there is very little certainty about what forward might mean. Forward is the start and stop, the correction, the reapplication, and the resolve to keep doing it for no other purpose than to experiment.
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