Uncertainty has a way of making the mind loud. A message goes unanswered. A meeting gets moved. Someone says, “Can we talk?” A job feels less solid than it did last week. A person you love seems far away. You are waiting for a result, a decision, a phone call, a diagnosis, an answer. Sometimes there really is something hard coming. Sometimes there is not. The trouble is that the mind does not enjoy waiting around to find out. It wants a conclusion. It wants a story. It wants