*An uncertain certainty*

Isn't it ironic,
How life works...?
Everything is iconic,
And stirred up in talks...

We live, what, maximum 110 years?? If lucky perhaps... 
And what do we do for almost a whole century of existence? 
We live...
But how much do we actually know about life?
Isn't it funny that we go around life, guessing, estimating, wondering, forecasting, assuming, and believing? 
How much can one single person truly know about life? 

Just like Socrates had acutely uttered the phrase "Εν οίδα ότι ουδέν οίδα" which translates to "The only thing I know is that I don't know anything", we don't know much about life. Heck, we don't know much about us, nor our species. We are learning in the process, or that's what we want to believe. But all the knowledge out there is not meant to be collected in a single individual. It is divided and shared, and meant to be used when needed, personally or collectively. "Knowing thy self", is one of the hardest tasks in our lives, and it takes great efforts, internal battles and of course, time. And knowing thy self, is just the first step to understand life.
 

Let's take for instance the weather... We always go around guessing and predicting, but even with the best possible satellite technologies we can't be certain. 

What about the economy of a country and its future? Nothing certain there, either. You can closely study the Greek bankruptcy case, or Ireland's, or Cyprus', or Spain's; or the situation in the Middle East, North Africa, North America's East coast, and so on, but won't be able to predict what will happen, or if it's going to happen again (as history proves)... And these situations are caused by humans, right? Then how aren't they able to know what will happen if they do X instead of Y?

And what about the rationally absurd world of statistics? How many millions of funds have been spent by companies and others just to figure out what people like in a certain moment, what would they think, vote, eat, drink, watch, listen to, buy, need, want, etc...? And are they any close to the true answers? NO. There is no such thing as an average person or the "mean". That's just mean to tell you, the truth. :) If, for example, we have someone who is 20 years old and 1.80m tall, and another person who is 60 and 1.60m tall, their average would be a person who is 40 years old and 1.70m tall. But that person is actually a ghost figure, and doesn't literally exist. But companies do consider that person to exist, and many times base huge amounts on campaigns to attract that person, or simply create it. That's a waste of money, just spent on guessing... 

Betting who will win... 
Guessing if they like it or not...
Forecasting how the sales will go... 
Assuming every one agrees and understands... 
Believing we know the person next to us and ourselves...

The flip of a coin

And the goddess of Luck.

Will we ever be certain?

Before we are conscience-struck? 

Life is truly ironic in that sense. We don't actually know a lot of things, but we sometimes deceive ourselves that we do, in order to feel proud and capable human beings. We don't deeply know and understand the people around us, nor the animals, nor the plants, nor our planet. We analyze their behavior most of the times, and make assumptions based on that. 

And we don't truly know ourselves. And that's a good thing, to a point. To the point that we are eager to find out more, while maturing, and thus become wiser (at least some of us:). To know our self, we must test it in as many situations as possible; put our self in the position of other people; accept, appreciate, and admit who we are, and why. And always have friends around us to give us feedback. After that, we will probably have more certainty at least about us, in order to potentially add another grain of knowledge of how life works, and most importantly, Y.