UNcertainTIES.. .. ... .

Whenever I chat with my friends over phone or otherwise, I have a tendency to start with

How are you?

How's your personal life?

How's your professional life?

How are you health wise?

How are you financially?

And sometimes if they include family and social lives while talking about their personal life, then two more Qs - 

How're your parents, bro/sis? &

How's your social life?

Right, I know this all sounds a bit three much and boring kinds. But, yes, this is how I have split an individual's 'FACES' of life at a particular time, especially if you are at that point of life where you have graduated and working or seeking a job, and are nearing to take up the responsibility of marriage (basically @your quarter-life phase..:P). And also, when I inquire about someone, I would personally like to know all these about them, at that time. Thinking of it now as I write, I realize it also helps prolong the conversation instead of it coming to a full stop with 'Hey, how have you been? - Hey! I am fine. Going good.' Mmmm...

Anyways, coming back,....

Unmindful of whether you live with your parents or you are living alone independently, there will come a PHASE of life when all these faces will be wearing the expression of 'UNCERTAINTY'. It's true you know. Especially it is only whilst at that quarter-life period when small or persistent ailments previously unknown to your physical self will start surfacing, your family will be pressurizing for marriage or in general you will be confronting this gigantic flip-side of the so called 'generation-gap' with your parents, your office life will be so hectic that you will dread a weekend for resting rather than outing that it will shorten your social life. Also, professionally you might be facing irrational higher authorities or feeling that insecurity of loosing your job anytime because you just realized you aren't up to the mark or you made a blunder or you find no future in your current workplace or whatever. Last, but never the least, money!..Ha!..as usual it never stays in your hand...and you would be having no savings or sometimes no money during the last few days of the month or best/worst of all, you would be under paid that you are already on lone from friends.

Yes, it is a true story...that WE ALL FACE. And especially if you are not happy about your job and you are still switching between jobs, it is at that time when, along with all the other faces, the whole concept of uncertain life will be at its peak --> Let's just say, a form of Quarter-Life crisis of our generation.

But, there lies a beauty in this. Uncertain situations make you constantly think for betterment. For you have been unstable for so long enough that they will make you constantly seek solutions for stability. They will always keep you at the edge, constantly activating your brain and never once giving in for routine or boredom. Or at least, thats one way, and the only positive way of looking at 'uncertainty', in my point of view. I personally embrace uncertainties. It gives me solace when I confront them head on.

And eventually when stability is on the table, that taste of sweetness is indescribable. It will always be a pleasant, slightly proud feeling of personal victory. :)

And of course, it's life, and uncertainties never end there. But at least, by the time we get to shoulder more responsibilities, along with more uncertainties, we would have learnt to embrace them, confront them...and deal with them..:)