Taken for Granted
Write Club Prompt #40
I take it as a given that the future will always be there. That things will work themselves out if given time. Recently I’ve started seeing the future as a limited resource. This has spurred in me a sense of needing to take action now. With luck there will be time later. However, that is not garaunteed. Nothing about tomorrow is certain. For this reason I have begun taking my here and now a bit more seriously. Will I wake up in ten years and be glad that I took no vacations? Will I appreciate all the summer days spent in front of a computer. The day dreams looking out a window can become reality.
In some sense I have already started the turn. Writing these prompts has helped me focus on writing. A thing that I was putting off for a long time. I need constant reminders that the future is uncertain. That every day will only happen once. Today was good. I hope tomorrow will be good too.