Future Note

One night you’re sitting on the couch just getting home from school in your grandma's house where you live with your mom, your cat is by your feet and you popped open a can of limonata. Suddenly, your mind flashes to you in 10 years, sitting on a couch in a different place, maybe your own apartment or house. The future is something strange to think about as time will pass by so quickly. And soon you might be in a completely different place in your life. You could be doing anything, you could be an entrepreneur and start your own company or you could be on the side of the street struggling for any amount of hope in this world. 

It makes you wonder does anything you do now really affects your future. Or if there’s really a fate in this world and you’re destined to do what God has planned for you.  Or if there is no future at all and it's just a continuous present, everything happens spontaneously. 

What happens to you doesn’t belong to you, it only half concerns you.

As a high schooler nearing the end of junior year, knowing that I have to really start considering what I want to do in the future is hard. When I think about the future, I often think about the past, and how things have changed over time. Like how the internet was an invention created in 1983. In 1970, probably barely anybody was even thinking it was even possible or tangible item to create, and I'm sure nobody thought we would rely on it as much as we do now in 2024.