Walk through chaos

Daily writing promptIs a little chaos actually good for us?View all responses I’m just going to invert that question a little and ask: Is a little order good for us? I’m doing this because the question “Is a little chaos good for us?” assumes that chaos can be pippetted into our lives in “little” quantities, that at all other times things are completely predictable. I learnt from navigating what is at most times a chaotic newsroom that a good life is less about learning how to exert control and more about responding to situations, whether or not we control them. Granted, the question “Is a little order good for us?” is equally susceptible to that argument, but I’d also like to use it to illustrate something cool, something I think has helped me work more efficiently, too. It’s called a random walk. It’s more of a concept than a walk you take — although you could try it in the real world and see how it goes. In a random walk, a person walks on a grid of square cells, like a chessboard.…