THE FUTURE

'Cause it already happened.

While staring at the college brochures that the representatives of that college handed out to me in school, I found myself stressing the importance of the future. When I got home, my attempt to concentrate on the task at hand (which was my psych homework) was futile. Then I began to wonder why I was avoiding the brochures. Was I, along with many other young adults, classically conditioned like Pavlov's dogs to fear the future, and is "the future" really as bad as adults make it to be? 

The next day I was Skyping with my oracle- my care-free sister, Sara. She started telling me that senior year in high school would pass with the blink of an eye, and although I tried not to blink like it was a game - it was inevitable. I started thinking about the girl in my government class who dropped out of school. I wasn't sure if she was afraid of the future, or if it was just Reno being the nation's worst city in high school dropouts; but either way, it was some sort of evidence delivered in a shiny package to one Yousef Al-Nuaimi. 

Sara never said that just because time is passing by, I'm not going to have a glorious time. The glorious times I'm having now nullifies the rate at how fast time is going by. The mindset of the future depends on the persons narcissism and optimism. And while most people are narcissists, I'm going to try to stay optimistic so while I look back on this time, it'll be a positive retrospect. But for now, I have to summarize Pavlov's accidental findings on his classically conditioned dogs.