Comfortable in the Middle

The complexity of reality precludes precisely the kinds of information that allows one to quickly come to a definitive conclusion on many topics of interest.  This doesn’t stop a lot of people from quick judgments, but it gives me great pause.  

I’m comfortable abiding in uncertainty, and I recognize lingering with uncertainty and delayed conclusions isn’t a comfortable place for a lot of people.  Where some people reach their destination in a moment of thought, I may never reach a destination, or perhaps I suspect a destination, only to find out later, I’m heading towards a different destination.  I’m a traveler in more ways than one.  I search for truths in lots of places, and I find useful information in many places where those already comfortable in a specific place would never look. 

My puzzles have lots of pieces, and it takes time to complete a large puzzle.  The puzzles I work on actually grow in size over time.  It seems that for many, the puzzles are always small, with clearly defined edges.  The great puzzles in life are not small, but perhaps a small puzzle is all that some are able to accommodate.  That might be good enough for some, but not for me.  So I am in the middle, working on large, growing puzzles of all sorts, and there I will remain, looking around me in every direction for opportunities to discover, learn, integrate, synthesize, while moving closer (hopefully) to better approximations of reality over the course of time.