Certainty

How certain are you about your understanding of the world?

I was extremely confident in my world-view, but now I'm not. It was an easy way to live being able to say something is a certain way. Why was I so certain?

In the past 4-ish years, I've been coming around to this realization that I don't know sht about fck.

I've been alive for 30 years and sometimes I'll purport to know something about how life was in the early 1900's because I learned it in history class? That seems super weird. How could I possibly understand the context, the feelings, the motivations of real people living their day to day lives at another time or place?

Half the time, I feel like people I actually know don't fully understand the motivations for what I'm doing – how/why am I to assume I can understand that about others?

Show empathy, of course, but I think it's maybe naive to think you can understand another person or situation with the certainty we normally convey?

Talk soon, Mitch