Metaphors

I was thinking about my life. Well, not really my life but life in general. I was thinking about life as a metaphor for life. Then I started thinking about the future.

It is easy to focus on your future health; future finances; future friends.

Thinking about that lead me to think that perhaps you should look not at the most obvious things when planning your future; you should look at the fuzzy part of your future.

What is lurking in you peripheral future?

How do you plan for the part of the future that you can't see?

That is when I heard an intelligent man (whose name I cannot recall) talking about how you cannot control what the world does to you but you can control how you respond. It struck me as the answer. Why should I worry about the future. I should accept events, good or bad, and prepare myself to respond.

The future does not exist.

It is all the present.