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When we take boating trips, if everything went according to plan,
there'd be nothing to talk about. You could simply give your pre-trip
itinerary and that'd be it, no reason to travel at all. People who
actually do stuff know that all the fun is in when things do not go
according to plan. This is why I rarely discuss stuff that goes
right, why bother. It is when unplanned things happen the fun
begins. This is why I always post about crazy stuff that happens and
not about how everything went according to plan.
In thinking about this, I had a startling revelation, "Some people
hate uncertainty" and this realization boggled my mind like finding
people who love Nazis or similar. I find myself considering, "People
really LIKE things to go exactly as they planned, NO WAY" but I s'pose
some people really are like that. I guess there's nothing wrong with
that attitude but is alien to me.
So, just out of curiosity, which type are you? Do you like stuff to
go as planned or is seriously off course good for you?

Sane people always plan. They don't cast off with torn sails or a near
empty fuel tank, or no idea of a heading.
Then they want their plans to happen.
Everybody - if they're sane.
And they also know that plans often go awry and there is always some
uncertainty.
So your "revelation" is what I'd call "common sense.'
No wonder you were startled.
You remind of a guy here who had a little leaky propane cannister and
spun a tale about how it was going to blow his boat up, so he turned it
into a nav hazard to "protect" his boat.
Came up with all kinds of wild speculation how the gas would overwhelm
his boat even after tossing the cannister into the open sea.
Yet at one point he sat for an hour with the cannister at hand, waiting
for the tide to turn.
Defied common sense.
I stopped razzing him because he never said that every time he picked it
up it was still leaking, because it was a very slow leak.
Figured that's what somebody with no common sense would do.
Tell a story that made no sense because he left important parts out.
Can't hold that against him. Takes all kinds.