Encounter with an Anomaly
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Yesterday, I wrote that Life never lets us get bored. A vivid example is today’s news about the attempt on Donald Trump’s life. People dropped everything to glue themselves to their screens.
The nature of an anomaly is such that it can’t be ignored. “What was that?” the brain torments itself. Was it just a lone shooter or a multi-layered conspiracy? Local or international?
An epidemic outbreak in Asia, an investor’s prolonged silence, a strange pain in the side — is it nothing or something that will change our fate?
The more surprising the news, the more it shatters our basic understanding of reality. We’ve overlooked some part of reality. What is it? It’s unclear. That’s what’s unsettling.
Fortunately, over millions of years, Life has knocked humans down so often that we’ve learned to dodge and regroup. When faced with an anomaly, we’re saved by heightened attention and curiosity.
We sniff, touch, and study a new phenomenon from all sides. The goal is either to exhale, “False alarm. Nothing’s wrong,” or to seriously worry, “Houston, we have a problem.”
If our response to an anomaly is measured and inventive, we end up stronger and our understanding of the world more robust.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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