CIMPLE – A Curious Introvert's Musings & Photos about Life and Enjoyment

My lack of successful predictions. As we begin my all-time favorite sporting event, the first two rounds of March Madness, I remembered that I’ve never predicted a NCAA March Madness Final Four and I’ve definitely learned this month that I can’t predict the weather. My sports predictions have been so bad at times that my niece claims she would be a millionaire if she had consistently placed bets against my favorites. I’ve been known over the years to binge-watch the Oscars nominees and predict the wrong winners and am shocked I failed to predict that the only two nominees watched this year would be Top Gun: Maverick and the fabulous best original song Naatu Naatu, from the movie RRR. Whoops, almost forgot to mention The Banshees Of Inisherin, love Brendan Gleeson but still can’t talk about the movie. Then we go from the daily fun predictions to the things I never saw coming our way. On the serious side of life, two more items occurred in March that have left me feeling unable to predict anything. The first is the COVID-19 pandemic and the three year anniversary last week that was mostly ignored by our leaders and tv media and that the United Nations Secretary General would give a speech for International Women’s Day stating that gender equality is 300 years away. These last two have left me speechless, saving me from more bad predictions.