Predicting is like buying a lottery ticket while blindfolded. You look at the current pattern—like the fact that your cat is staring at the wall—and you say, “I bet he’ll pounce in five seconds.” You have no proof. You just have a hunch based on past experience.
It’s why we say things like, “The traffic will be terrible at 5:00 PM.” You don’t know it will be bad—you’re just making an educated wish. Predictions are about what might happen, and they can be wrong. Remember when you predicted your lasagna would be amazing, and it came out tasting like a shoe? That’s a prediction fail.
Predictions are future-focused and a little bit arrogant. You’re basically telling the universe, “I see a pattern, and I think you’ll follow it.” Sometimes the universe laughs and sends a sinkhole.
