The Frightening Future Awaits

The future. That bright, dismal, joyous, despondent, anticipated, dreaded, planned, unprepared for, arrival, departure, ascent, descent, source of optimism, pessimism, grand, disastrous and altogether fictitious state of Existence which never arrives...at least not as envisioned.

We live as if our days ahead somehow express the Universe’s cooperation with our (generally futile) attempts to direct the trajectory of our lives in a precise manner. We live, gather, plan and schedule as if the future is a concrete reality. At best, another moment of our experience will be a…