Can you remember where you were 5 years ago? 

Who you were with?  Where you lived?  What your routine was like?  Your hopes?  Your fears?

One way to better understand how unpredictable life can be is to take yourself back 5 years and see if you could imagine being where you are today.  Most people could not.

Looking ahead can be useful but to really see what the future has in store for us is to respect how impossible it is – even for very smart people – to see even a year in the future.

5-year plans are useless.

Being docile and ready to respond (not react) is the skill we should shoot for.

This blog was not in my purview one year ago.  A change in where I live was not on the table.  I could not anticipate the new friends I met over the past 12 months that would change my life or the ones I lost to death.

The irony of life is that the future is impossible to predict.

In fact, predicting it is vain and senseless.

A better use of our time is to:

1. Prepare for the future by being able to deal with problems that invariably will crop up.
    
2. Act with ease on opportunities that occur and live with a sense of wonder that life is not a time tunnel but an adventure, which means when we fail, we get up and resume the quest.

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