“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future”
Neils Bohr, physicist and philosopher
Song: The Future Freaks Me Out by Motion City Soundtrack
Article: How to reconnect with an old friend by Santana Gupta
Thought: Week four in the soundtrack series comes from Jon Acuff – If I am going to predict the future, I might as well pick a positive one. Having anxiety feels like being stalked by a mountain lion – every turn he’s there. There are moments of calm that come when I can breathe without the chase. Mostly when I stop trying to predict and plan the future.
I am awesome at coming up with the 99 future possibilities but absolutely shit at getting it right. So I just stopped once I no longer found it beneficial to be wrong. Now, if I do choose to fortune tell, I go with the most optimistic version I come up with. It probably won’t happen but neither will the most scary version either. It’s better to sit with the positive one than the negative one – both are not real. I am not my thoughts. My future is not my thoughts.
So I tamed the lion by turning it into a bunny. I trust the universe that if it’s meant for me it will be.