Have you ever heard about Chaos Theory? If not, simply it has two ideas. First every system tends to degrade into chaos. Second, although systems appear to be in chaos, they still have a pattern. Put into action, what I think this means for our lives is to accept that no matter how hard we try, chaos will ALWAYS win. That means that we will get frustrated, we will get disappointed, and feel like things are a mess. Haven’t you ever spent hours sweeping and then mopping, and then within five minutes after finishing someone drops something onto the clean floor. Ahhhhh! Perfect point, this is chaos in action.

So we must resolve within ourselves that it is impossible to beat chaos. There is no way to stay ahead. However, even though we lose the battle, we can still win the war. Since there is order within chaos, then what we really need to do is to look for a comfort zone within chaos that we can feel, duh, er … comfortable. I think I really mean at peace. Our minds are pattern matching super-computers. Finding patterns and recognizing them gives us peace. So if we are lucky enough to look beyond the moment and perceive the bigger pattern that those cookie crumbs on your freshly mopped floor are part of, then we will feel more at peace.

To put it simply, we are all a mess, we can’t help it, that is the nature things, but we are all part of a bigger pattern where we fit in. If we acknowledge our part of the pattern, then our minds will have to feel more at peace.