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RE: Dear future Me: a letter for my self in 50 years
Very good questions all of us should ask ourselves when we're younger. They say the only thing constant in this life is change. We can consider ourselves fortunate if the good relationships we have now with friends and family are still there in the future.
Who knows what the future will bring, but you're ahead of many of your peers by thinking about how you might be in 30-50 years. Having long term perspective is the best one to have.
Good luck!
thank you for reading the whole text :) i appreciate it.. yes, there are thousands of questions i ask myself.. maybe changes aren't always a bad thing, right ;)
Change tends to be neutral I think. It is what it is. How we react to it, I would say, is where the good or bad comes in.
Something devastating (you can fill in the blank) is hard and maybe even seems insurmountable, but even out of great tragedy good can come. I'm not perfect at reacting positively to tough change, but I'm trying, and I think it's the best way to look at things.
Thinking about change and what we can do to make the best of it is something that can and should happen before it comes. As long as we're aware that thinking about It might not fully prepare us for experiencing all of it—some change just needs to be experienced—but it will help us in the greater part.
Now, I don't think we should spend so much time thinking about what could be that we fail to live what is. There needs to be a healthy combination of using the past as a navigational reference, living and experiencing the present, and finding ways to optimize and/or mitigate the future.
No pressure, right?
Things have a tendency to work out if we don't overthink them and act as best we know how. No one needs the stress of trying to overcome things that are not within their control.