My little experience in the world has taught me a lot of things and one of the lessons is that the future is unpredictable. I have been through different phases of life where my prediction about the future turned out differently. There were times I expected worse but things turned out to be good and vice-versa, so instead of predicting the future, I just set my goals and work towards achieving them.
Regardless of what the future might have in store for us, I have also learned that our actions today can make a huge difference for us and sometimes, we still get the opposite result in the future despite putting in so much effort which makes predicting the future a very difficult thing to do.
I started working at the age of fourteen and it has been over a decade since I have been working to make ends meet. Back then, predicting the future was fun and the easiest thing to do.
Work for some time, go to school, get a good job after graduation, start up a business to boost my income, build a house, start my family, and so on. It doesn't take me five minutes to put this plan together when predicting the future and here I am in the part of the future with many of these things unaccomplished. It is the same for many people and it's not like we aren't doing anything to achieve these goals but a lot of factors keep tampering with how we have planned the journey and our destination in the future.
I didn't see myself doing many of the things am doing today and if my predictions from childhood were correct, I should be one of the respected pilots in the world by now. Today, I write to earn and also work as a fish farmer but I am still happy which is the purpose of everything I predicted back then. My life is currently not in the position I have always predicted but I always assure myself that tomorrow will be better because I am not giving up on making a huge difference for myself.
As much as I want a better future, I have grown not to be too anxious about what the future has in store for me because when things do not happen as expected, the disappointment affects me a lot. It breaks me for some time which isn't a good thing.
I might have not, made the fast progress I have always predicted but I am definitely not stagnant. The growth might be slow but it is steady and I believe that adding up those tiny bits of growth will definitely amount to huge growth in the future.
I dream, work, pray, and believe that my future will be great. Everything about life starts with having a dream, I want to be this and that, I want to own this, and that all starts with a dream. As I mentioned earlier, I have lots of things I want to accomplish and they are my dreams.
With my dreams in place, I put in the effort to see these dreams come to reality.
I believe that my efforts without God are a complete waste of time, Psalm 127:1 says that "Unless the LORD builds the house, the builder's labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain." While working on my dreams, I pray and believe that tomorrow will be even better than what I think is best for me.
In conclusion, tomorrow is indeed unpredictable and we should have it at the back of our minds that sometimes today doesn't even determine tomorrow. A lot of things beyond our power and imagination can happen between today and tomorrow, so I can only hope for the best as I put effort into making the future a better one.
