Tuesday, February 17, 2009

The improbable and probable

I was listening to the radio this morning. And a startlingly obvious fact arose. It was: it is healthy to write about your feelings and in fact is a good thing to do. You don't have to be a novelist, or eloquent, the act of writing something down is in its own way beneficial. For me it is a matter for trying to understand things. Asking lots of questions and doing my best to mentally work out how to discount the most unlikely and weigh towards the probable. Even though the probable can even appear improbable, thinking about these improbabilities puts a spotlight on them. Their importance stands out. Unfortunately I had another STUNNED episode today, something quite different from yesterday. Or not so different in reality. Something improbable but likely given the circumstances, and then considering it in greater details it becomes less of the improbable and more of the probable. So in reality, those things we consider improbable are really pieces of evidence or suppositions we weigh less importance on because we don't want to think about them. Due to personal bias or willful repression or some other hidden psychosomatic agenda. It is only after some real hard thinking about them they are then put in the correct improbability box.

So ends the lesson, I hope someone understood what it is.

1 comment:

Jules said...

"All things are possible, until proved impossible. And only the impossible may be so as of now."

Pearl S. Buck