Is There A Future?

May 12, 2009 – 1:14 am

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I have heard that when a Japanese worker is laid off from his job, he might throw himself in front of a train. Suicide is crazy. No sane person would kill himself. Just because the world is crazy, doesn’t mean we have to be crazy, too.

The news in the media has been terrible. Sometimes it feels like our future has been stolen from us. We may not feel good today, but didn’t we all grow up believing that our completion would come sometime in the future? For this reason, we don’t want to think there’s no future.

Thinking about the question of whether the world is going to end soon is a waste of time. It’s just the bad habit of worrying, carried to an extreme. There’s good worrying, when I can think of something constructive to do with myself. I’m not personally in control of the future, so worrying about the future would have to be called bad worrying: worrying about something I can’t do anything about.

The fact that businessmen are still trying to make money off the end of the world is an indication to me that the world is not about to end anytime soon.

Questions for Discussion

Some people are very future-oriented. Their minds are on where they’re going later. They always seem to be leaving. Do you know someone like this?
Some people are very good at planning for the future. They have made 5-year plans and 10-year plans. They started saving for their retirement when they were 18 years old. Do you know someone like this?
If you are thinking about the future, what do you plan to do in the future?

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