The future is important. In short, we wouldn’t be here without it.
It is not a source, but rather the location where our lives move – the magnet to which humanity is polarized.
It has gone by a lot of names: 100 years from now – The end of time – tomorrow.
Nothing dominates the conversation more.
“What will be best for ____ from now?”
The past, no matter how bad, is a safe place to living.
The ever-so-fleeting present barely gives us enough time to think about the previous moment before moving on to the next.
But the future is different.
The past fades, morphs and bends (always with some anchor).
The future expands, dims and explodes (with nothing but guesses).
Our wellbeing is dominated by our relationship to our future. Will we change? Can we change? Will it be better? Worse? Will we be here for it?
The future is filled with two prime emotions: fear and hope. Sometimes they are related in that our greatest hope may be for our greatest fear to not come true.
But it always does.
We die. Our loved ones die.
We are loved. We are forgotten.
And our human future becomes someone else’s.
They will try, like we did, to control it. Tarot cards. Weathermen. Stock brokers.
When their future lets them down, they will be sad. When it exceeds their expectations, they will feel fortunate. When it comes in right as planned, they will nod their heads and say, “told you so.”
But they will learn, just as we did, that the future contains the most powerful motivator of all: the unknown.
If we knew what was coming, it wouldn’t be worth it.
It is true.
We are best off enjoying life one sandwich at a time.
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