"Unpredictable as the weather" is a term we all understand.  We apply it to the stock market, future hopes and dreams, and to people we consider to have unstable personalities.

While an unpredictable streak may make some people exciting and challenging to be with, most of us prefer to form relationships with people who are steady and reliable.  We don't want them to be predictable to the point of boredom - those who run their lives with a stopwatch, and whose responses are always the same.  We don't want them to be so steady they can never experience development and growth in character.

But we recognize that too much unpredictability can be dangerous.  Like the El Nino phenomenon, an unpredictable personality can wreak emotional havoc in a variety of ways.  Too much unpredictability in those we rub shoulders with, makes us nervous.  We tend to put some distance between them and ourselves.

In spite of your need for the occasional period of excitement and adventure, don't you sometimes long for some old-fashioned predictability?