On prospection, ignorance, and the wider lens
Prospection is unique to humanity - at least we believe.
And it’s hard to tell if we’re any good at it.
Partly because we over-index on the seen over the vastness of the unseen.
Which is understandable.
Hard to stand on the invisible.
Though, that means we’re leading with ignorance. An apt description of life?
That’s dangerous, but it’s more dangerous believing how we feel projecting will match how it feels to arrive to our destination.
A little equanimity, some humility, and mild optimism sourced from reality at least can’t hurt. Might even help. Upekkha.
if we can unsaddle from self-idolatry and/or self-detest, we can find ourselves open to the present. Aware and less damn anxious.
When we do that, we find ourselves stumbling upon surprises.
Less assumptions opens the aperture - unknowing as the condition for seeing more, not less.
"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." Simone Weil