No amount of intelligence, planning, or effort will eliminate uncertainty: I'm sorry, but it's true. Uncertainty is not a temporary phase that disappears once you "figure things out." It's a condition of being alive. The real problem is our relationship with it. We crave certainty because it feelssafe. When we think we know what's coming, we feel protected. So when life feels "off," we respond with control, fixation, or mental rehearsal. We cling. We overthink. We overanalyze. We self-sabotage just to feel safe. And strangely enough, we don't do this because we want power. We do it because of the "if." If I plan enough. If I choose perfectly. If I manage this. Then what? Probably then you won't get hurt, right? I will sound like a villain here, bui the harder you grip, the more anxious you become, because deep down, you're still not certain. The certainty you want isn't found in manipulating the external world. It's found in the surrender. In releasing the need to force life into a specific outcome. Because when nothing is guaranteed, your most reliable way is your values, your character, your sense of meaning. And paradoxically, the suffering you're trying to avoid doesn't come from uncertainty itself. It comes from resisting it.