Interesting Times
“May you live in interesting times.” This phrase, be it a blessing or a curse, it has been called both, is rapidly becoming a cliché. So, are we living in ‘interesting times’? Good question, and I have no answer to it, not one that I would publish anyway.
As to listing 10 things that I know to be absolutely certain, I can’t. And that may be the first thing I am certain about. The other thing about which I have a certain amount of certainty is uncertainty itself. I am certain that yes, we are indeed living in times of uncertainty. Well, most of us are anyway. The other thing that I am fairly certain about, well, 100% certain about really, is that death will come to us all, sooner or later, don’t know where, don’t know when, don’t know how.
So, perhaps I can manage to achieve three certainties – 1. The certainty of death, to quote Dylan Thomas, ‘for all poor creatures born to die’. 2. The certainty of uncertainty itself, to quote Stéphane Mallarmé, in my own translation, ‘a roll of the dice will never eliminate chance’. 3. The certainty that I cannot find seven more things about which I am certain.
That said, I am not all that certain about what I have just written
rogermoorepoet 
I read some other answers to this topic, yours is my favorite! Also, I have always hated “your top five favorite” lists of anything, it’s just not that simple.
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We are meant to act like the sheeple they think we are – and hope we are. As artists we live way outside the sheeple fold and we are not always popular because of it. Alas, academic administraitors [sic] like sticking labels on people. Mine was ‘shit-disturber’. I wore it with pride and lived up to my name in spite of all their persecution of me.
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That’s exactly why I adore you, Roger! 😂
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