It's not just the stock market, of course, that has this built in ambiguity. With the stock market ambiguity reigns with respect to pricing and market direction. But other areas of life are as puzzling.
The boss tells you to tighten up on staff reviews. But when you do, he says you are picking in your staff, and you get in trouble.
You slow down to get past the narrow space by a traffic accident and the policeperson scowls at you and waves you to move faster. But just a few weeks ago a worker was killed by a guy going to fast. . .
Living well is as full of contradictions as is living poorly. Well, almost as full. Actually living poorly by being doped up all the time, drunk all the time, or angry all the time probably gets about the same rotten payoffs most of the time, so maybe there are fewer conflicts in terms of contradictions when you live poorly.
Living well, however . . . respecting other's, seeing the reason for laws and obeying them, doing unto others what you wish people would do for you. . . that leads to all kinds of conflict and tension.
Good stories depend on conflict, of course. Little Bo Peep wouldn't be half an interesting if she never lost her sheep. Batman would bore us if there were no bad guys at work in Gotham City. Avoiding ambiguity, deploring conflict and abhorring tension doesn't work and stories that do so put us asleep.
Stay puzzled, my friend. Real life is puzzling. Let me tell you one more puzzling story.
A young woman was approached by a guy who told her she was pregnant. Many people believe this was an expression of the love of God.
This weird love of God tore her life apart, and she lived to see her son executed by crucifixion. Love? Ambiguous at best. Maybe in retrospect.
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