The legacies of 2020: Chapter 1

Ali Eskandari
Nov 18, 2020

The world in choatic. Nobody can project, plan, or predict anything.

The future is uncertain

There are infinite possibilities for what will happen to you after reading this bite-size article.

Planning is an illusion

Brain used to make up the world.

Build up an illusion for you.

In a normal world — not the era of the pandemic we are living in currently— the brain tends to rely on previous experiences.

That’s why we predicting all the time.

Planning feels good. In this way, we assume we can control, uncontrollable.

2020 was a reminder

2020 reminds us, our perception of the future could be all wrong.

The only thing that is certain is the uncertainty of the future.

The only asset we have is today.

Act now.

Taking action in this very moment is the only thing is can influence your past and future.

As my favorite character — Master Ogway — said,

You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There is a saying: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift.

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