— LIEUTENANT TUVOK. LEARNING CURVE. 48846.5

In one sense, we can’t be “prepared for anything.” At least not with pre-rehearsed counter-measures and programmed responses. The amount of information we’d need to know is simply too great. Besides, it’s impossible to prepare for what we can’t even imagine, right?

Tuvok admits as much when he warns us not to make assumptions about future “conditions.” Yet he still advises us to “be prepared.” Isn’t this, well… illogical?

Not if we remember that proper preparation also includes what Picard called “readiness.” And that’s a matter of attitude. It’s the mental framework that expects the unexpected, that’s willing to accept new challenges as the cost of learning. It’s the faith that we will survive, and that if the conditions are too much for us to cope with individually, then there are other resources we can turn to.

And there are such resources. Other people, for instance. Not to mention the resource within us: The One whereby we are already linked with others; the One that already “knows” the conditions we’ll encounter even before we encounter them. And the One through which we are, even now, empowered to cope with anything.

I prepare myself for the unexpected as I link with other people, and as I connect with that Source of wisdom and power that lies within.

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The above meditation is taken from Going Boldly on Your Inner Voyage © 1999-2004, IF Books.

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