Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?
My life isn’t what I pictured from my most creative outlook decades ago let alone a year ago. Much to our chagrin, we aren’t in control of what tomorrow will be or whether we will have a tomorrow. So how can one even consider the probability of a year or ten years from now?
It’s all a conundrum of minutiae.
Life’s trajectory can deviate significantly from our expectations while swimming inside our own pool of ignorance. We need to reset the stimuli in our consciousness and be grateful for the moments we get to live more than imagining what may never be. A consequence of our mental conditioning through learned associations and ingrained patterns. Akin to a Pavlovian dog.
It is good to set goals in your journey of life, but remember most goals are made of rice paper. It’s better to understand the resilience of how to skillfully and strategically manage obstacles and challenge adversity in everyday life.
An outcome of mental growth is, what you thought or believed today will most likely change as you grow older. Just the way one thinks about what being older would be like and actually aging and living that experience. I can tell you from my experience, you can’t really know fully as my younger self took walking without pain for granted, until it happened.
The path of one adventure may lead to the beginning of another. So what my wildest imagination may set forth, with allusions of grandeur is just that. After all these many years, I’m happy that I’m alive and healthy today.
Everything else is gravy.
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Chu The Cud 
Everything is gravy to be sure. I love that phrase about life. Thank you.
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