The Future

"The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination."
John Schaar

How do you see your future? Do you see it as a fixed destination? In five years, I will be doing...
I always struggled to answer the question they gave me when I was in school "What do you want to be doing in 5 years from now?". I knew that our circumstances can change very quickly and dramatically in unforeseen ways so that seemed to me to be a silly question. To me it seemed best to ask what do I want to be doing tomorrow and then take it from there. Take one step at a time. After all, with the new information that tomorrow will bring me, I might very well want to be doing something completely different 5 years from now.

We are creating our own future as we go along. We take a step, look at where that places us, look at the new information we have about what we want, and then decide where to step next. This activity of deciding each day what our future will be changes both who we are and where we are going. The feedback we get along our journey (which depends on the path we take) changes who we are because it changes what we want, and from that changed perspective, we decide what our new destination will be. Our future is what we decide it will be.

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