You’ll Never Understand
Everything
Look, we are tiny complex humans in a huge complex world
(and even bigger universe). It’s all so unimaginably, fantasti-
cally strange that, believe me, we’ll never be able to
understand everything. And that applies at all levels and in all
areas of life. Once you grasp this rule, you’ll sleep easier at
night.
There are likely to be a few things going on around you right
now, as there always will be, that will remain just slightly out-
side of your comprehension. People will behave oddly and you
won’t understand why. Things will go unexpectedly wrong—
or right—and it won’t make sense. Spend all your time
desperately trying to work it all out and you’ll drive yourself
crazy. Much better to just accept that there is always stuff that
we won’t understand and let it go at that. How simple that is.
It’s the same principle for the big stuff—why things happen to
us, why we are here, where we go afterward, that sort of thing.
Some of it we’ll never know, some of it we can try and work
out, but I have a sneaking feeling it won’t turn out to be any-
thing like we think.
It’s as if our lives are an enormous jigsaw and all we get access
to is the bottom-left bit. And from that we make these huge
assumptions: “Oh, it’s a ....” But when the veil gets taken
away, we see that the jigsaw is massive and that the one tiny
bit we were scrutinizing was actually something else, and
there we are looking at an entirely different picture than the
one we’d imagined.