Craft. Discipline. Chaos.

We’re taught to think these are good things, but I’m not convinced:

‘Hope’ is thought of as good. But it builds a rift between how things are and how you’d like them to be.

‘Expectations’ are thought of as good. But they’re worse than hope, where you claim imagination as your own.

There being a ‘Point’ to thinks is thought of as good. But it attempts to bring order to things by looking for a bigger meaning in things that have none.

‘Craft’ beats ‘Hope’. It re-focuses aspirations toward the commitment to the work of your hands. This is something you control, which makes it more dependable.

‘Discipline’ beats ‘Expectation’. It gives us the ability to create alternate realities, but stays focused on the present, which is all we have.

Making peace with ‘Chaos’ beats there being a ‘Point’. While we can bring order to our days and our work, it frees us of our superstitious habits of looking for patterns where none exist.

Embracing the present and revering that which is in our control breeds peace and resilience.

And those are pretty handy things to have in a world like this.