Why The Future Is The Root To All Your Worry But There’s A Simple Antidote

The unknown future is scary.

Yet, we try to control it with our overbearing plans or become obsessive about how it will unfold in our daily thoughts.

No matter how much you predicted your life to unfold, today, COVID-19 and the Ukraine War weren’t likely on the menu, nor will they be the last.

You can never relax about the future.

No matter how much you pan for the future, there’s no certainty it’s going to play out as you hoped.

Your life already has its ending and all the lessons you should learn in this lifetime. The anxiety-inducing part is you don’t know how it’ll all unfold.

“The obsessive planner, essentially, is demanding certain reassurances from the future — but the future isn’t the sort of thing that can ever provide the reassurance he craves, for the obvious reason that it’s still in the future,” writes Oliver Burkeman.

You’ll never know if things will turn out “right.” But what’s “right” anyway?

The real problem isn’t planning, as planning is helpful for many different reasons in our daily working lives. But a plan is just a thought articulated in words.