# Certain Uncertainty

By [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2) · 2025-11-17

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Like sitting under a strong waterfall, the pressure, the intensity, and the noise are unceasing.

They pound down and the body must brace to receive the impact. The shoulders are hunched, the stomach radiates a message outward to every point, “be firm, more is coming.”

The back takes a pounding, waffling between hunching to protect, and becoming erect to absorb. Feet seek to find their footing, as do hands.

For a moment, the eyes might open and see the images beyond the water cascading relentlessly in front. “Out there,” apparently, is the calm, tranquil world, but “in here,” it’s chaos. Noise, commotion, pressure.

But, I wonder if that can be flipped?

I wonder if it’s possible to accept that, as long as life continues, the water of the uncertain future will crash down upon me and that maybe, just maybe, I can train myself to find the tranquility within?

The breath is the key to the door of certainty.

Certainty that, as long as I am here, feeling the water, I am fortunate to be here, feeling the water.

So, I should just feel the water.

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*Originally published on [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/certain-uncertainty)*