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The future has always been seen in two different lights.
🗣 Some people get excited by it, others terrified. The questions, the unknowns they bring often make us predictable beings, fear. Professor Daniel Gilbert mentioned in his TED Talk, The Psychology of Your Future Self, how we think we are finished when, in fact, we are a constant work in progress.
👋 This is very important to hear because a lot of us are just drifting by right now because we don’t see what the future holds. We have goals, we have dreams that we want to reach, but often that’s all they become, pinned to our mental vision boards, never materialized.
🇬🇧 This leads us to disconnect from our futures. We don’t identify with it. We don’t see who we are to become. But how do we overcome this fear of the unknowns? How do we embrace the future? How do we accept changes that are bound to happen to reach who we want to become?
🔜 A big part of embracing the future is accepting who we are right now. Such acceptance leads to understanding what changes need to happen to be the person we want to become. But doing so is in itself a challenge that a lot of people do not even think of dealing with until pain and discomfort hit them.