- Date posted
- 26w ago
(Un)certainty
At the heart of many OCD themes lies the elusive concept of (un)certainty. This applies both to the journey towards a conclusion and the validity of the destination itself. Imagine life as a vast, intricate maze. OCD sufferers often find themselves paralyzed at each intersection, desperately seeking an absolute guarantee that their chosen path is the correct one. They may retrace their steps countless times, analyzing every turn, convinced that if they just look hard enough, they'll find the one true route. We must accept that, as humans, we are inherently limited creatures. Our senses and cognitive abilities are constrained by both space and time, making absolute knowledge and certainty fundamentally unattainable. It's as if we're navigating this maze with a flickering flashlight that only illuminates a small area around us, while the full layout remains hidden in darkness. Given these limitations, we must learn to rely on probabilities rather than absolutes. We make the best decisions we can based on the information available to us, much like a skilled maze-solver who uses logic, intuition, and past experiences to make educated guesses about which path to take. The true anguish, in my opinion, stems from the belief that absolute certainty is achievable and the subsequent pursuit of this illusion. It's akin to believing there's a perfect map of the maze hidden somewhere, if only we search long enough to find it. This isn't to say that certainty doesn't exist at all. Rather, it's our inherent nature as limited beings that prevents us from fully grasping or achieving it. We're like explorers in an infinite universe, capable of discovering incredible things, but never able to map it all.