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A little while ago, I started to feel sad about the future in a way I'd never felt before.

So sad, in fact, that I frequently found myself randomly singing this song as I walked through

the world. I think I didn't know what else to do. I am so sad, so sad, sad, sad.

I think a lot of us have terrors about the future. Mine are climate change flavored,

but it's fine if your terrors lean in a different direction. Maybe their political system

goes radically astray terrors, or my race or ethnicity will be targeted terrors, or technology terrors.

Whatever the point is, in an impressively wide variety of directions, things aren't looking so great,

which to me raises a very important question. How should I think about the future?

I am so scared, I'm so scared, I'm so scared. How will you think about the future is important

because our view of the future has real consequences? If I believe that the future is already lost,

I won't bother to change my behavior, a choice which in itself will make the future that I fear

much more likely to happen. On the other hand, it also feels dangerous to be too optimistic.

I mean, complacency about the future feels like part of the reason that we got here in the first

place. It didn't seem like a good idea to retreat there again. I am so scared, I'm so scared, I'm so scared.

What I needed was some credible, realistic way to think about the future that I could stand behind,

and which preferably didn't involve abject despair, which is why I was so excited when I heard about

Joy Millen, a 70-year-old woman living in Scotland who at age 61 discovered she had a very

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