Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Everything happens for a reason (or two) or perhaps things happen and we create reasons to explain them.

Funny how we often work backwards. Something happens and we proclaim, “I knew it would happen. We had this and that and they are reasons for what happened.” Few say these reasons before the happening.

We are pretty good at creating reasons after things happen. There are worse thing we can do with our time and our brains. Find an explanation to prevent or encourage the event—that can be a worthwhile exercise.

Finding reasoning before happenings is a bit more difficult. That is called “predicting the future,” and few of us are any good at such. Still, many of us are called to do it.

At this point in the blog post, the reader may be expecting the writer, a.k.a., me, to list tips on how to predict the future well or at least better. Sorry dear reader, I could make up some stuff, but that would only be putting reasoning after happening, and we have enough of that.

Here is a prediction of the future: I won’t be any better at predicting the future than I have been for the last 40 years.

There you have it. Chisel that one in stone and check back with me in a decade or two.