2023-The Year In Preview
Derek Hunter
| Jan 01, 2023
Now that we’ve established the fact that 2022 sucked, it’s time to look forward to seeing what the new year might bring. What will happen in the next 12 months and how will that shape the future? It’s all guess work, of course, no one can know the future (as evidenced by how there aren’t any multiple mega-lottery winners) or time-travel (as evidenced by how there is no one with the lucky streak of a Biff Tannen from “Back to the Future 2”) but we can make semi-educated guessing based on experience. A lot of the present is just human beings having learned nothing from the past and, therefore, only slightly altering mistakes already made to suit the current situation. People, if not events, are wildly predictable.
So how should the future be viewed? The answer depends heavily on how you choose to view the world. If you’re an optimist, well, I don’t know what that’s like. I imagine it involves being disappointed regularly, though so many of you still seem happy. I’m not sure how that works – how you can hope for the best, expect it even, not get it and still have the thought that tomorrow it could work out. I’m jealous, to a certain extent, of how optimists get up every morning ready to take on the world no matter how badly the world kicked their ass just the day before.
If that leads you to think I’m cynical, you are correct. When you expect the worst, you’re rarely disappointed and oftentimes pleasantly surprised. Another way to look at it is “There’s nowhere to go but up.” It is with that thought we look forward to 2023.
There’s nowhere to go but up.
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