Saturday, February 28, 2015
Welcome Unpredictability: Welcome Unpredictability
Welcome Unpredictability: Welcome Unpredictability: There is good unpredictability and bad unpredictability. The former is very much welcomed and the latter may often be regretted. Lea...
Welcome Unpredictability
There is good unpredictability and bad
unpredictability. The former is
very much welcomed and the latter may often be regretted. Leaving the unsuspecting to ask, “Why
couldn’t it be otherwise?”
The American Heritage Dictionary defines unpredictability as,
“Something difficult or impossible to foretell or foresee.” Unpredictability is when you are
listening to a capricious speaker and his words seem to lack a firmness of
purpose and commitment. The
speaker may be trustworthy about some positions and then again he may not. His audience is therefore may be left believing or doubting his sincerity.
It may be like in the romance comedy “No Strings Attached”
(2011) starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher that deluded themselves that
they would try to keep their relationship strictly physical, but it was not
long before they wanted much more. It was unexpected when they changed the nature of their agreement.
“Welcome unpredictability” is doing something for someone
without asking anything in return.
This sort of unpredictability will not follow any set pattern, but has a
pleasant surprise in the end. A
person is incapable of foretelling the results or what will happen for nothing
is known in advance. It is like
playing the slots at a Las Vegas casino and hitting the jackpot. Or, you may not have hit the jackpot,
but something else unexpectedly happened that made you happy.
Sometime the unexpected may be through unpredictable
impulses attributed not like in Natalie and Ashton’s case, but by being
divinely guided. Jose Fernandez of
Puerto Rico might have prayed earnestly on completion of his studies at State
University of New York – Oswego, for finding a job as a social worker. For months as he prayed, there was no
clue, nor sense of direction from God for his future. It seems as though his prayers were not going to be
answered, nor be answered any time soon, but he persevered.
To his surprise, when he received an answer it came in the
mail and it was not what he expected.
Since he was single, he hoped that he could find a job almost in any
city in the United States. He was
not picky, but was prepared to relocate from his home state New York, to any
other state on the West Coast, Mid-West, South West or South East, but he was
informed that he was awarded a Fulbright to Caracas, Venezuela.
Jose had always dreamed about working a few years in a
developing nation. He was fluent
in Spanish and has knowledge of Spanish speaking cultures in Latin
America. One thing that fascinated
him was that he would be able to work with the indigenous poor in that city’s
Catholic diocese. So here God
opened a marvelous door for his career that he never expected it.
Such an opportunity was unexpected and unforeseeable. Everything fell into place in ways that
he never thought. The timing was
right. He loves the tropical
weather of Caracas, and felt it was not unpredictable like that of upstate New
York, where it was a joke among his friends that the stock market was as
volatile like the weather.
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