The future always appears brighter than the present (I seem to be stuck in the tenses lately, my apologies). It's a curse of optimism and an inability to accept the possibility that things could get worse. When looking at the future, you often assume that it will be better than today and you've been taught to think like this since elementary school. Teachers pep you up with phrases like "when you go to college", "when you get married", "when you have your own house", not with phrases like "when you're smoking a pack a day", "when you get divorced", "when you're staring at your reflection in disgust", giving you a false sense of future brightness and refusing to admit that parts of your life could potentially suck. You grow up envisioning your adult self as being shrouded in happiness, surrounded by opportunities, thinking things are going to be great. And then you get there and you realize, though it's not awful, life just isn't the shiny little nugget of wonderment they had made it out to be. It's disappointing. Life is disappointing.
Or is it me? Am I doing this right or am I failing at making this little nugget shine?
Tomorrow I'm going to wake up, turn on the computer, and check the results. But no matter how great either candidate may seem, I'm not going to expect much. I'm learning.
3 comments:
I feel I have hope but I never see much change. It makes me sad to realize a lot of dreams are just that and life has much more sadness. We just keep going on hoping. Love, Mom and Ozzie
I feel I have hope but I never see much change. It makes me sad to realize a lot of dreams are just that and life has much more sadness. We just keep going on hoping. Love, Mom and Ozzie
I can't say whether or not we'll be truly happy in the days of tomorrow, but I'm not sure what being truly happy is anyway. I guess all we can hope for is a roof over our heads, meals on our plates, love, and money in our pockets! Haha I don't know...
And hey, we're young and still have plenty of time to make that shiny future!
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