Daily writing prompt

What are you most worried about for the future?

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To be honest, this prompt made my head spin a little and gave me a smidgen of anxiety. Why?

Because there is so much going on all the time. So many things happening outside of our control, and for many of us it takes everything we have to just keep putting one foot in front of the other with such uncertainty staring us in the face. We worry so much about those things that we can’t control, and for good reason in some cases, because they can be as dire and drastic as life versus death (literally and metaphorically.)

Bringing it down to a more personal level (without going into TOO much detail) in order to answer the prompt more appropriately, I’m going to focus on things that I have control over. What worries me about the future? That the decisions I make (or hold myself back from making) don’t lead me to a future I will like. That I am simultaneously the source of, and solution to, all of my problems, and that I need to accept that to make progress in directions I want to go, there will be sacrifices and changes that may be uncomfortable to make.

There is something that I used to remind myself of, and could stand to keep reminding myself of more often again. It sounds weird until you put things into perspective, but hear me out.

Change is the only universal constant.

Change happens all the time whether we want it or not. Even the rates at which things change can themselves change. Things happening faster or slower than predicted. Change is something that we need to face and accept. Yet, sometimes, it’s hard to do that. There is only so much of the future that can be predicted, because even the futures we envision for ourselves can change dramatically. This is why I tried to remind myself of change being the only universal constant, because it will happen whether we like it or not and we just need to roll with it.