Tag: predictions

The weather

Posted on by philipdodson

Often, especially here in the UK, we are constantly looking at the weather forecast and react either positively or negatively depending on what’s forecast. Usually here in the UK, negatively no matter what is predicted…too hot, too cold and so on.

The reality compared to the forecast is often completely different, in some cases bearing no resemblance at all to what was forecasted only the evening before. That’s not strange really as the weather is not predictable despite what the forecasters would have you believe.

This is like life, the forecast in our head and reality are nearly always completely different, yet we spend most of our waking hours projecting forward into the future and suffering internally from our projections, only for it to be not what we expected. All that wasted energy on trying to predict the unpredictable.

Like the weather, life is best when we just wait for what unfolds with each moment. Predict the unpredictable, and suffer less.

The weather forecast

Posted on by philipdodson

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Huge sums of money are spent on trying to predict with greater and greater accuracy something that is totally unpredictable.

If you live in the Sahara, unlikely as that may be, you do not need to waste money, as it will be most likely to be hot and dry. Certainty.

In the UK, we just spent £97 million on a new computer to predict the unpredictable and now there are plans to spend more.

It won’t matter how much money you invest into trying to be certain, as certainty is an extremely rare thing, not just with the weather but with life too.

Life is like the weather, difficult to forecast too accurately. Best to look out the window and dress appropriately on the day instead of investing too much time, energy and money trying to cover every eventuality.

Take each day as it unfolds, be in the moment, do what you can now as that will build the future. Forecasting something doesn’t make it so. Doing something is more likely too.