I'm going to start right off and say that the future is unpredictable. To assume that any vision we have of ourselves in twenty years is going to be true, is hoping for a miracle. Although I would like to see myself as a famous author by the time I am thirtyeight, it feels much more important to focus on my life now. And right now I'm a stressed out senior trying to struggle my way through my last sememter of highschool, while also trying to turn eight years of footnotes into a coherant story. I'm nervous about colleges accepting me, I'd love to go to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, but where ever I end up I'm going to have a hard 4 years ahead of me learning about a profession that has no guarantee of getting off the ground. Not that I'm a downer. I'm very confident in my ability to make a living off selling novels. But I understand that what's more important in the long run is writing the stories, and I need to focus all my effort and imagination on that before I can look to what's going to happen after.

Thinking about the future can be helpful. But we can only learn from the past, and live in the present.