The predicament of predicting...

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It is hard to foretell the outcome of anything ~ whether it is the outcome of a situation, the outcome of an election or even if what you are looking at is ‘the future’ on a much broader scale.
Or, as it turns out, it is not making the prediction itself the hard part ~ it is the prediction being factually true that turns out to be almost impossible...

There are many reasons why we, even with all the technical help we have nowadays such as computers, are still unable to see those things that haven’t happened yet with great accuracy.

To start with, there are thousands, if not millions of possibilities for something to happen let’s say at a certain time in the future. Statistically, picking the one that will turn out to be factually accurate gives very slim odds.
Another, more personal thing that makes it hard to see what is in the future is that it is very hard for us to see an outcome that we would never have thought of. An outcome we have a hard time imagining...

These two reasons also show the duality in our approach.
On one hand if we have all the information ~ including how the people involved are thinking about it or what they are hoping for the outcome to be ~ leading up to the outcome, even if that outcome is something that is a future event; we would probably be able to figure it out logically. That is where computers come in handy. The problem here is that we never really have all that information...
Coming from the other side, our intuition, our sense, feeling can give us a lot of information on where the situation may be leading us. We may even have visions showing us possible outcomes of that situation. Yet if the outcome is totally different from what we can imagine, or believe it to be ~ all our intuitive, sensory information on the outcome isn’t doing us any good...

And yet we keep attempting to ‘know the future’. To predict what is going to happen ~ be it just in our personal or family lives, or on a world scale.

And knowing what would be the outcome would likely give us a sense of security. A sense that we can take action toward that known outcome, and be ready for it when it happens.

The thing is, that just by focussing on that one outcome that we ‘know to be true’ ~ especially if we start focussing on it with a large number of people ~ chances are that we start manifesting it into our lives, into the world.
If the outcome we envision is a bad outcome, we may not want to do that for obvious reasons.
If we sense and know the outcome we predict is a good outcome, in focussing just on that one possibility we may block an even better outcome to emerge...

Perhaps that is why it is said that the value we find on our path is in the journey itself, rather than the outcome...
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