Are you afraid of your future?

You can plan a pretty picnic but you can't predict the weather.

As much time and energy as I've put into planning my future, I'm way behind the time schedule I gave myself in high school due to a myriad of personal, professional, and financial setbacks. I don't dwell on those things though. All I can do is keep moving forward, anticipating the next challenge life throws at me so I can work around it. XD

What the hell does the bolded statement have to do with relying on other people or hope? I think I can sort off see what you're getting at though. But I think it's a rather pointless statement then, if my understanding of your intention is correct. Would it be reasonable to interpret the bolded statement in the following manner?

"It doesn't matter how much planning one does, the world could end before it even matters."

Well that's kind of obvious isn't it? A scheduled football match could be cancelled due to bad weather etc. Doesn't change the fact, that planning is still required in order for progress to be made. No one can take into account external factors which are beyond our control. That does not make the planning pointless. Don't get me wrong, I know that's not what you have said, but the bolded statement implies that to me.

Even if one plans for something to happen, it does not always work out as intended. That's basically what you're saying. However things will never work out in the first instance if one doesn't put fourth the effort. Barring a miracle I suppose.
 
Isn't everyone to a certain extent? I am, I'm afraid that I'll become nothing. Just another person, wasting away their life. But then again, I'm just living for the thrill and to see where life takes me.
 
I'm not really scared of my future, as I already know what I am going to do when I grow up. The only thing I am scared of my future is death. >m<
 
I would not be scared for the future if the human race would not be so scared of being wiped out. I try to have the most time I can have and live it to the fullest.
 
A little bit, but I think I'm confusing fear with, well, anxiety.
 
Absolutely not, I'm not afraid of the future. Whatever obstacles I face I'll overcome them in the future. I believe that fate has already planned out our future, so whatever happens to me in the far future it will be fate's doing.
 
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