How do you see your future?

Do most of you worry about the future? I mean as a person with social phobia it's very hard to socialize. I always worry about the future regularly, because what if I'm old and still have no friends, husband and children? Who's gonna take care of me then? I mean old ppl nowadays already complain about the youth and kids nowadays have less upbringing than in the past. For instance it's more dangerous now to walk alone in the evening than back in the 80's. I hope we all won't die poor and alone. I wish the best for everyone.

Does any of you have the same concerns?

People in my family stay fit fairly late into life, so I'm not worried about being unproductive in my 60's unless I got a worse genetic dice roll than I think. It's the men in my father's side who seem to have the more serious health concerns. I doubt I'll have anyone to care for me just before the end, though, and I don't want to spend 10 years in a home with nobody but my caretakers before that. I hope it comes swiftly, is all.

I saw my grandmother wasting away after my grandfather passed on after years of severe Alzheimer's. They'd been together pretty much their entire lives and she sat alone in her apartment most days without him for a few years as if she were just waiting for her time to follow after. I don't know if I'd want that, either. Someone has to die first.

Ah, a small house, working pretty late into my life. Uhh possibly a hermit with no lover, ever. Maybe I will spend time tending to growing stuff in a garden and watching the weather channel.

Sinopia said:

Do most of you worry about the future? I mean as a person with social phobia it's very hard to socialize. I always worry about the future regularly, because what if I'm old and still have no friends, husband and children? Who's gonna take care of me then? I mean old ppl nowadays already complain about the youth and kids nowadays have less upbringing than in the past. For instance it's more dangerous now to walk alone in the evening than back in the 80's. I hope we all won't die poor and alone. I wish the best for everyone.

Does any of you have the same concerns?

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From a Christian perspective, there is a saying from Jesus that goes like this. If God cares for the birds of the air, and makes sure that they are fed and sheltered, will He not look after the ones whom He died and raised for. But seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness, and then all things - pertaining to daily needs and necessities - will be added unto you.

I felt the need to say that. I have been struggling with my Christian faith over the past month, and it benefited me as much as I hope it benefits you to have read that.

Deja Vu said:

spend time tending to growing stuff in a garden and watching the weather channel.

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I did a lot of that when I was between jobs some years ago. The weather channel came in handy so I'd know if I needed to water the garden in the evenings or just let the rain do it. :thinking:

Sinopia said:

Do most of you worry about the future? I mean as a person with social phobia it's very hard to socialize. I always worry about the future regularly, because what if I'm old and still have no friends, husband and children? Who's gonna take care of me then? I mean old ppl nowadays already complain about the youth and kids nowadays have less upbringing than in the past. For instance it's more dangerous now to walk alone in the evening than back in the 80's. I hope we all won't die poor and alone. I wish the best for everyone.

Does any of you have the same concerns?

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Yes, I worry about the future. Less now than I used to, though. My rationalization being that I can't change fate so why stress over it?

I have some worries, but I also have some hopes.

My biggest concern is over my ability to survive in this world. Some days I feel so small compared to everyone else. Supposedly simple things for others I find really daunting and difficult, like applying for jobs and then keeping jobs without running scared. Plus socializing, making connections and finding support from other people, are all things I have a lot of trouble with.

But I'm 32 now, and I'm doing alright, so I don't think I should worry too much. I think my hopes are more fun to think about. My hope for the future, is that my art and music will go really well and I'll have lots of beautiful years of creating exciting creations that I'm really pleased with, and can share with others and excite them too. I also hope that I'll meet some more special people in my lifetime and make some more friendships. Those rare connections that make you feel like life's worth living. And my final hope is that I can continue to grow closer to God, to learn more of what life's all about and to find the answers that I'm looking for. So that's how I like to imagine my future.

I used to hate thinking about the future because I saw nothing there. Now I can see something, and it's great.

I still worry in the sense that life is unpredictable and who knows what the future may bring, but at least there's now something to look forward to and goals I have set (sort of).

I worry about it quite a bit. I'm fast approaching another birthday and I'm single, not that being single is so bad, but I used to think I would be married and chasing after rugrats by now. No such luck. I've been isolated for so many years, it's just a way of life.

I'm smart enough to prepare myself for old age, you know, savings and such. So I'm not worried about that. I just wish I had someone I could be with. It's hard to explain myself to other people though, and to expect someone else to be okay with an absentee-type of spouse. I imagine it sucks going to things alone and being asked where the other half is.

And I'm not sure, because I haven't asked myself, but I think I might actually be boring too... damn. So I think I'll be getting decrepit alone, and that's all there is to it.

With psychic powers..


No but really, not very bright to be honest. I primarily fixate on the here and now because it's all too daunting otherwise. Until things change, I'm taking life one day at a time.

sometimes bleak, sometimes optimistic

Future? What future? :idontknow:

Well, at the moment, ma future's lookin' pretty bleak.

How do ah see ma future? Yin wird: Alone.

Make o' that whit ye will... :idontknow:

Sinopia said:

Do most of you worry about the future? I mean as a person with social phobia it's very hard to socialize. I always worry about the future regularly, because what if I'm old and still have no friends, husband and children? Who's gonna take care of me then? I mean old ppl nowadays already complain about the youth and kids nowadays have less upbringing than in the past. For instance it's more dangerous now to walk alone in the evening than back in the 80's. I hope we all won't die poor and alone. I wish the best for everyone.

Does any of you have the same concerns?

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I try not to think about it, if I do; I worry about the same things.

I'm always afraid of my future. I am afraid that my girlfriend will leave me, afraid that my family will die, afraid of a boring job, afraid of dying, afraid of every day that is coming if i'm not depressed. I have a strong depression and paranoid thoughts in my head.... I can't take this. I need to talk to someone

For most of the time i can see only a life of continuing misery, despair, "decay" & generally complete utter hopelessness. That's why i'm delving into "alternative" ways of seeing the world, such as religion, spirituality, metaphysics - whatever gives me tiny glimmers of hope, temporarily. Really, i'm now just waiting for death, as i have very little faith in anything anymore, as almost nothing "works" for me regularly, like the "rules of the game" are constantly changing .. so that i can never master anything in life. Not all is lost yet, but i am at about 95% hopelessness now concerning my life. I now realize how completely, utterly diabolical my life has been right from the start. God knows how i'm gonna be able to carry on enduring this daily hellish torment for the 1000s of days still to come...

I worry that I might not be able to adapt to a very different distant future. We all can see how fast the technology is growing and advancing and I think I will not be able to keep up.

Also I think about having children and how to build a strong family that will last forever. Like you said I am kind of scared of what this generation of kids will do when we will be older.

dany said:

I am kind of scared of what this generation of kids will do when we will be older.

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Ever see the movie "Soylent Green"? actually :sad:

Sometimes I think I should prepare, sometimes I think I should just go all out and have fun before the world goes to hell, then kill myself.

I'm mostly worried that Canada will be taken over by rich Chinese escaping the degraded environment in their own countries, driving up the land value in the countryside while the cities become death traps... and I won't ever be able to afford independence from corporations in my own country, who by that time could be our only potential saviors, when climate change kicks in. Depending on psychopaths for water and food is scary, but not as scary as political instability and war elsewhere.

Personally, I don't have as many regrets as I used to-- I suppose being at least somewhat financially secure and having travelled and done quite a few things that I wanted to do has helped that.

In some ways I regret not pursuing my dreams with more fervor but at the same time I've never had the kind of dreams where I definitely need to be recognized as a success-- it's the not trying that's really disappointing. Still, it would be worse if I hadn't had dreams in the first place, or had finally given up on them and resigned myself to actually being my job or my socioeconomic status or whatever.

Overall, my future is better than others, but not as good as some.

dany said:

I worry that I might not be able to adapt to a very different distant future. We all can see how fast the technology is growing and advancing and I think I will not be able to keep up.

Also I think about having children and how to build a strong family that will last forever. Like you said I am kind of scared of what this generation of kids will do when we will be older.

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I'm more afraid of the long-term effects of what the older generations are doing now. The kids are the ones who are going to have to clean it up and sacrifice their own quality of life in the process.