When thinking about the future -- one always runs directly into the present. The present situation in most things is: outrageous, unthinkable before now, stupid, self-defeating, confused, jumbled, inauthentic, worthy of note, crazy, unimaginable, and just plain ordinary.
"Ordinary" in the sense that the present day is always "out of whack." Or is it our view of the "present?" Are we unable to accept the present because we live in an ever-moving past, basing our observations on change on our recollections of how things were (or how we thought they "should be")? I think human beings truly resist change.
We just can't handle it. We rebel. We hold out for something better, a return to something better, when the past was not "better" at all, only just the past where we were oh-so-comfortable.
My future is my present. What I need to do is accept what is -- and smooth out the edges where I am most affected; and not worry so much about a new condition, especially one that may seem to diminish my standing somehow. I don't want to get into a semantic tongue-tie-off, but change is inevitable; change is happening right now; change is moving the world; and I can move along with it, or die off resisting it.
Which will it be?
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