Equiprobability Hype:

On not wanting to see things coming


You see those night-mode-taken eyes, and yes, I don't wanna see things coming.

Apollo is the Greek god of prophecies. It's either you go to the Oracles of Delphi or straight to him if you want to wave off those clouds that hide your future. Rachel Elizabeth Dare, a character from the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, was given this same power, as she became a host of the Oracle of Delphi, who is in the form of green mist in the story. Kronos, the Titan god of time, might as well control time to have a glimpse of the future then go back and do his thing at present. He might have avoided his sons chopping him into pieces. Prometheus is also close to the future, having premonitions of what is about to happen; well, his name means 'forethought', right?

I wouldn't have liked my life if I were in their shoes. I have this fear of knowing the future. I don't even have the guts to try fortune telling, and I don't dare surf for death clocks and the like in the Internet. Indeed, forethoughts are not my thing.

It felt like I am plunging into a pool of what-if's when I think of the future. I don't if I would even like what is meant to happen or if I could even survive before whatever lies ahead takes shape. It makes me shiver. I fear that something ahead might eat me alive.

At first, that's how it goes. I am this crybaby fearing not to have milk tomorrow. I am wet with cowardice. I am suffering from a hopeless case of being a chicken.

Right now, I don't think it's the fear of knowing something bad to happen that makes me run away from anything that has a link with the future. I guess what I actually fear is that something ecstatically good is bound to happen and I am not a part of it.  

And there comes equiprobability.

Equiprobability is a philosophical concept in probability theory that allows one to assign equal probabilities to outcomes when they are judged to be equipossible or to be "equally likely" in some sense.


Things in the future have equal chances of happening. Good things are likely to happen as much as the bad ones are. Nothing good is going to happen without you in it, and nothing bad either. They will all take shape, good or bad, without you noticing the whole of it. It is up to you as to how to take it. You have all the power to control which side becomes more probable to happen.

Worrying about bad luck to knock at your door in the near future doesn't make sense after all. You see, worrying is no use. Aside from the fact that worrying is the loss of trust in God, the more you worry, the more it becomes possible for what you worry to actually happen. Worrying is like absentmindedly wishing for that very thing to happen.

Also, we shouldn't seek for the future while we are living in the present. Knowing what the future holds is like preparing yourself for it. Sometimes, if what those fortune tellers see is bad, we try to avoid it, considering they really see the future with accuracy. For me, trying to avoid what is meant to happen is like running in place. You can't avoid it. You don't get anywhere.

Everything in the future is equiprobable. Bad and good things will happen depending or what you are gonna do. Different from trying to avoid what will happen when you know it where you might do anything, bad or good, just to change your future, here, you just do what is right based on your judgment. That is, based on your judgment now, period. Anyway, if you are doing the right thing now, you don't have to think about what the outcome will be. Goodness bears goodness, right?

Thus, we don't have to go running and looking for the future. We just have to live now. Don' waste your today worrying about tomorrow; otherwise, you'll miss a lot about today.


Don't look for things that are to come. Concentrate on those that are coming.