I suppose you could classify me as an adventurer in some ways but without this ability I likely would have died either in my early 20s or around age 50 or between 10 and 15 years old when I had night time seizures often caused by a concussion from rock climbing at age 9.
So, this adventurous nature I have always had and the ability (sort of like American pioneers) to adapt to unbelievable situations is one reason why I'm still alive today.
So, if you are adventurous and interested in traveling the world what you learn when you do this helps you also survive when you come home back to the U.S.
However, there is also another traveler's saying which is: "You can never go Home again!" which is also true.
Why is this?
It's about culture Shock of new cultures when you are in them and how when you return home it seems as strange to you as wherever you have been on earth while traveling.
But, the real point of all this is that the ability to adapt to new situations is vital if you want to live a long life here on Earth.
Can you imagine what I have already had to experience since I was born in 1948 in Seattle Washington?
No. unless you are around my age you can't.
Which is the point here that I had to adapt all the time to get to here.
Do you know what the future was to me in the 1950s and 1960s "1975".
So, what do you think I think about being here in 2026?
It's all pretty unbelievable to see everything that is happening now as well as everything I have seen since I was old enough to remember stuff starting in 1950.
For example, there were no stoplights when I was 2 years old yet. No yellow, green and red lights at all.
Instead there were moving crossing arms more like train tracks have in some ways that only said. "Stop or Go".
This is just one of thousands of differences between 1950 and now.
And the whole world has also changed this much too not just the U.S.
Everything everywhere has changed so very much it's not really possible to keep track of it all for anyone really.
But, somehow anyhow I'm still alive here in 2026 at age 78!
We can all benefit from becoming more comfortable with not knowing, he said.
“Uncertainty
is a fundamental part of life, whether it’s our relationships, our
health, our finances,” Dugas said. “Learning to be able to deal with not
knowing is a fundamental skill for quality of life.”
With effort, uncertainty can be not just tolerated, but embraced.
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“Wouldn’t that be kind of boring if you always knew what would happen?” he said.
Discomfort with uncertainty exists on a continuum
and changes with circumstances, said Nick Carleton, a psychology
professor at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. An
unopened box may look exciting when it is surrounded by balloons,
friends and the smell of cake. Unattended in a subway station, a box
feels very different.
A degree of caution makes evolutionary sense.
“The
people who absolutely loved uncertainty probably went into caves that
they shouldn’t have and didn’t get to reproduce,” he said. “On the other
hand, you also can’t be too scared of uncertainty, because the people
who never left their safe space probably starved to death.”
Jeroen
van Baar, a psychiatric epidemiology researcher at the Boston
University School of Public Health, and his colleagues examined 137
studies that have used the same scale to measure “intolerance of
uncertainty” among college students since the 1990s. The term describes
people whose reaction to not knowing is far more intense than the
situation warrants.
They found that average scores had risen substantially.
One theory is that smartphones have made the problem worse
by removing many everyday opportunities to practice not knowing. You
might never get lost anymore. You can alert someone if you’re running
late, and you can settle any bar debate about trivial facts immediately.
“The
fact that we have mobile phones in our pockets allows us to know almost
everything in an instant,” van Baar said. That may have “given us less
opportunity to become comfortable with not knowing, and to experience
that we are OK when we don’t know what’s going to happen.”
When the line between general unease with not knowing crosses into anxiety that interferes with daily life, people should seek professional help, said Dugas. Treatments can include behavioral experiments that safely expose people to uncertainty.
One
of Dugas’ patients who worried intensely about grades was asked to wait
48 hours before checking a test result that had been posted online. The
patient's distress was intense at first, Dugas said, but diminished
considerably by the second day.
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“New learning can only really happen when you experience what you’re afraid of,” he said.
Smaller
experiments might include briefly leaving the phone at home, or making a
low-stakes decision without asking others for reassurance.
When
a genuine problem arises, said Ryan Jane Jacoby, a clinical
psychologist and researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, resist
the urge to eliminate every unknown. When plans for a trip are
disrupted, for example, ask whether the problem is within your control
and can be solved.
If it can, narrow the possibilities
to three or four reasonable options, weigh their advantages and
disadvantages, and make a decision. Then resist repeatedly reconsidering
it.
“There probably is no perfect choice,” she said.
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When
nothing can be done, Jacoby recommends shifting from problem-solving to
acceptance. Mindfulness or an absorbing activity can redirect attention
from repetitive thoughts to the present.
Embracing uncertainty does not mean ignoring danger, suppressing disappointment or insisting that every setback is positive.
In her book “Comfortable with Uncertainty,” prominent American Buddhist Pema Chodron writes that practitioners are warriors of nonaggression who accept that they can never know what will happen next.
“We can never avoid uncertainty,” she writes. “This not-knowing is part of the adventure.”
Carleton
recommended acknowledging the negative emotions. Then ask yourself
whether something worthwhile might emerge from a disruption, without
assuming it will.
Jacoby suggested remembering what it was like as a kid, when surprises were exciting.
“Kids
embrace the curveballs, and I think as we get older, we tend to worry
more and think about all of the potential uncertainties,” she said.
Adds
Dugas: “If you are not able to deal with the fact that the universe is
uncertain, you are going to have a really difficult time being happy and
having a good quality of life.”
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Albert Stumm writes about wellness, travel and food. Find his work at https://www.albertstumm.com
So, likely they will try to vote their way out of this recession by creating a new way forward because the present one isn't working and it's not allowing them to survive. Some cannot survive at all not only here in the U.S. but now all over the world.
If you look at the breakdown of Law and Order in a place as sophisticated as France historically you can see how the Iran war and $8.50 per gallon Diesel in places like California and in off road communities in Alaska it is now $9 to $14 dollars a gallon. So, you can imagine how bad things are getting all over for countries like France who don't have oil wells like we do in California!
LIke for example, in France Diesel is $9 to $10 dollars a gallon there right now. and Gasoline is over $9 a gallon too. So, how are people supposed to survive this? NOT VERY WELL!
There are as many ways as people have ways with Angelic ways on top of this. There is no one way they will show you the future. It could be a dream or vision or it could be a bird landing on your hand or something like this. It could be anything.
I like the statement: "If an Ant is your Guru, Feed him." (or her) which also could mean a tree or a leaf on a tree or a rock or a person or an animal or fish or porpoise or whale could also be your Guru.
I think understanding this is important because literally "God is where you find him, her, the Being".
The easiest way for most people to understand what Angels are it's your relatives who have passed away who still care about you like you are still their children or grandchildren or great Grandchildren and so on.
But, of course there is much more to this than that. However, it's easier to say it this way to most people.
why?
Because there are Angels who choose to Incarnate as humans and Angels who don't want to do this.
The Angels who choose to Incarnate as humans are learning usually how to be College students and how to think for themselves. However, thinking for yourselves can be very painful and difficult as you all have noticed growing up.
So, unless you are strong enough and tough enough and willful enough to do this then you don't become sort of like a Doctor or Lawyer or Business person in the world of Angels. So, everyone you meet here has chosen to be here to learn to have Free Will. Otherwise none of us would have come here in the first place.
There were legends that the world could end in 2012 so many people were wondering how the Mayan Calendar was actually going to work out? So, this movie was pretty exciting sort of like the lead up for Y2k was exciting too. You never know when one of these things will be right. However, I have found I'm a lot more accurate than any of these predictions so far. Is that good or bad? I think the fact that I'm still alive and all my family are here when I'm 78 speaks for itself.
God has been very good to us.
So, I'm aware:
I ONLY live by God's Grace every moment!
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