I once read that the brain, having been built to detect constant dangers lurking in the dark, is a prediction machine. You feed it information, and it spits out an emotion to feel and a behavior to follow. I used to treasure my brain until an accident left the software on an infinite loop. No amount of interruptions could cancel the error box. A visceral memory floats up, and it is lost with no where to go. It is telling me I’m overloading, but I just feel it as grief.

The brain likes to seek out information that it can never grasp to try to predict the impossible. It is a reaction to uncontrollable pain. The brain and body wishes to never be in the same situation again. So it tries to predict. And predict.

And predict to no avail.

This loop is what keeps me imprisoned, but there is respite. Through the act of creation, I come to slowly move aside the past. For every word I write, my brain grasps a little less, accepting more that ambiguity, loss, and the uncontrollable are woven into life. Like all stories that I write, there is no goal, but each word flows closer towards a end that tells me that everything will work out.

The best way for me to predict the future is to give up the cage of control and to write the words that will free me.

Life doesn't fly by. It doesn't have wings. It doesn't have anything. It simply passes through us as time goes on.

As things happen to you, you begin to realize that whatever passes through you becomes woven tightly into braids that stick out of your back like a tail you can never get rid of.

Some people, with experience and time, begin to gain the ability to see the strings in front of them. Only a few of them figure out how to reach out and grab it.

Now, once you take hold of them, there's no going back. Of course, it all still passes through you. The only difference is that you become responsible for weaving your own braids. As you make things happen rather than let things happen to you, you feel a sort of carefree bliss. That is, until you realize that if you fail to harness your strings, everything will go haywire and become a tangled mess. It happens when you decide to stop... or turn around. And that's when you have to decide whether or not you want to cut the string. Now, of course everybody gets stuck every once in a while. But at one point, the mess becomes so unbearable that it's nearly impossible to untangle.

In all my life, I have only witnessed a single person weave all the way to the end. As the last bit of string passed through them, their braids fluttered and lifted them up into the sky.

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

Inspiring, right??

Abraham Lincoln is trying to say what you want in your future, work for it in your present.

Then you will have the future you want.

But when you have it in the future which would be your present then, you would not be able to enjoy it.

Why??

Cause you'll be working for you then "FUTURE TO COME".

And the cycle continues.

Then a time comes when you realize

" I have never fully enjoyed anything I worked for!"

But now, it's time to go ad leave this world.

So, in my opinion, present is the most important time in your life. No matter how little you have but Always cherish what you have.

That doesn't mean that you should be lazy or you should slack off. Abraham Lincoln has said wise words. You should aim big and work for it.

I don't encourage you to waste your time and life,

But,

If you have to sacrifice one for the other,

Don't sacrifice your present for your future,

You never know how long you're gonna live.

So live while you still can, have dreams and aims, work hard for them, but not to the extent of making your present hell!

Good luck!

Lincoln should have died

an illiterate farmer in Kentucky at an early age

by all rights

he was born to nothing special

without TicTok to motivate him

he had no followers

no likes

few Facebook moments to share

several significant deaths defeats depressions

that might have pulled a few heart prayer hug emojis

but little else

to make him believe

he could arise from his most humble of beginnings

harshest of continuing realities

without YouTube videos to guide him

and still hold a belief that the power was within him

to do rather than be done by life.

There have been other Lincolns

names that roll off our tongues

few grew up with advantages education wealth

no vast core of friends providing daily affirmation

all those things celebrated as success

in today's outside acclamation driven world

and yet as fads and trends rise and fade

some individuals remain

the why's the question

the answer in the belief itself

we create our own futures.

Belief

that we are all born with

the power of creation

Lincoln no man of the church

and yet something in his lack of formal training

never beat out of him

his knowing

that he alone was responsible

for his outcome.

Sadly

this quality

getting lost in the false facade

of our social media outside approval driven life

causing us to doubt or never learn trust our own

yet still and ever present

organic ability to take what is given

and create whatever we believe we deserve.

Collusion. Patriarchy. Istanbul. I don’t know what any of those words mean, but I do know something.

The Simpsons is a popular American show about jaundiced individuals living in the nations worst state capital. A significant point of interest about these diseased peoples is that often what happens in the show happens in real life. We’ve seen this phenomenon time and time again, from when The Simpsons predicted 9/11, to the time they predicted the Ebola outbreak. With so many accurate predictions, how is it possible so many were all correct?

Ladies and gentlemen, this were no predictions, these were planned events. It’s not often that federal agencies co-operate with kids cartoons, but it does happen. This is one of those cases.

The accidental use of a 9/11 magazine? Whoops, gotta do something to make this show have better ratings. Ebola outbreak? We could do that.

The fact of the matter is that when said cartoons make wild predictions, this is all part of the plan. Government agencies get royalties off of these shows, and making their “predictions” accurate not only controls the public but also reels them back in to these shows, making the government rich.

Abraham

said

God told him

sow his seed

and so it was

the Line as

Chosen

perpetuated,

and reassured...

But Lincoln

who crossed

much later

down the path

peered into

his shiny

unminted

penny and

looked

towards

the God

in which

we trust

yet still

placed

corroded

Faith

in Us...

Said, ye

Gentlemen,

there must be

more of a plan,

a way for

the everyman

to take Life

in hand...!

So perhaps

he foresaw

the bullet

coming..?

And welcomed

the slaying, and

unpredictability

sure to follow

03.16.2023

The way to predict the future is to create it challenge @Finder

I always wondered what evil I had done to deserve these burdens. I thought, maybe things would get better, maybe I just had to wait out the bad stuff and soon I'd be saved. Well, I'm tired of waiting for a miracle to happen.

"Please, don't do this." I can't look her in the eyes, she weeps at my feet but I refuse to give in. It's amazing how fast people switch sides when there's a gun to their head. "You're a good person, okay? Nothing like me. You shouldn't do this, you'll ruin yourself."

"Oh, so now I'm a good person." My laughter comes out as hollow cries, I can't recognize the sound of my own voice anymore. "I thought I was a worthless pig." I press the cold metal harder against her head, she whimpers as I flick the safety off. "How does it feel to be powerless?"

"Listen, I had no idea what I was talking about, okay? You'll regret it if you pull the trigger."

"Is that a threat?" I shake my head. "I'm so tired, I'm exhausted. Trying your best gets you no where, and having someone like you torment me everyday didn't help at all." I feel the tears slide down my cheeks before I can stop them. My hand shakes but I don't move them from the trigger. "It's time to take things into my own hands." It was almost too easy, eliminating my problem. Except, the problem wasn't her, it was me.

I strongly believe that all kinds of predictions fail.

I believe that most of the "unpredictableness" is caused by a great humber of factors; they arise some time after the false predictions are made without taking those factors.

That is, we would have to stop acting, or even existing, in order to fit somebody's preditions.

This is the reason why the author of this article is writing it. This is why the most intelligent and self-sufficient people of today try to make their tomorrow instead of predicting it. This is, among other reasons, why the armed forces of my county Ukraine kept fighting until the partner countries gave them modern weaponry, which went against all predictions of the experts at the beginning of the current war.

It looks like many things cannot be planned or foreseen; they are done without planning or foreseeing. Which means, it is important to do things rather than to look at them happening.

I strongly believe that all kinds of predictions fail.

I believe that most of the "unpredictableness" is caused by a great humber of factors; they arise some time after the false predictions are made without taking those factors.

That is, we would have to stop acting, or even existing, in order to fit somebody's preditions.

This is the reason why the author of this article is writing it. This is why the most intelligent and self-sufficient people of today try to make their tomorrow instead of predicting it. This is, among other reasons, why the armed forces of my county Ukraine kept fighting until the partner countries gave them modern weaponry, which went against all predictions of the experts at the beginning of the current war.

It looks like many things cannot be planned or foreseen; they are done without planning or foreseeing. Which means, it is important to do things rather than to look at them happening.

I'm sorry to say that this quote is often attributed to Abraham Lincoln, but there is no evidence that he ever said or wrote it. The origin of this quote is uncertain, but it is commonly attributed to management consultant Peter Drucker, who used a similar phrase in his book "The Effective Executive" in 1967: "The best way to predict the future is to create it."

Regardless of who said it, the quote suggests that taking action to shape the future is more effective than simply predicting what will happen. By actively working towards your goals, you can create the future you want rather than relying on external factors to determine your future.