Venturing into the unknown, better known as ‘the future’, is something we do every day, no matter how brave we think ourselves to be. We face an ever-changing world, which can throw all sorts of crap at us, but we’re facing it with the full knowledge that tomorrow will be another day, another chance for success or for failure, but another day all the same.

There are many things that can go so terribly wrong every day, and even thinking about it can be an incredibly terrifying experience, but it’s something we tend to ignore because we can do nothing else. We can’t stop, we can’t avoid the future that’s heading towards us at the insane speed of sixty minutes an hour.

Sometimes, we all wish the future came by a little slower. Or even a little faster, depending on just how interesting our lives are at any given moment. “May you live in interesting times” can indeed be a curse. But living a life where nothing ever happened, good or bad, wouldn’t be worth living.

A perfect life is one of ups and downs, but above all it is one of experience and learning. This world was not designed for perfection, nor intended as such. It’s a place in which we exist to learn and grow, to become better equipped to handle our future, even if that future, ultimately, is death.

There are no real goals in life, except the ones you set yourself. The ones you set yourself completely unaware of what the future may bring you. They may be easier than expected, or even impossible to accomplish. But in the end, the journey is everything, because achieving a goal just means you need to find a new one. After all, you can’t ever really stop.

You can’t even give up, because even that is a goal you’d need to accomplish. Every moment is a decision, a decision that can’t always be considered good or bad. We are limited in our perspective. We can’t see everything that’s in the past, nor even in the present. We certainly can’t predict the future. But we try to do so with every moment that passes, even when we’re not aware of it.