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War Chest Wednesday: Would I like to see myself in 2023?

The September 18, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  is
If you could see yourself ten years in the future, would you?

Would I like to see myself in 2023? There are some mornings in 2013 that I get up and dread looking in the mirror because I don't want to see myself in 2013. In ten years, I will be 76 years old. Today I am thankful that ten years ago, at 56, I was unable to see myself at 66. No, I do not want to see myself in ten years because I do not want to know where I will be or what I will be doing. The reason for this is simple, I don't want to doing anything to screw up my happy or contented life in 2023, which is possible if I know what is going to happen and where I will be in ten years.

When it comes to the future, both my personal future and the future of humanity, I am an optimist. I believe that there are good things coming my way in the near future. I believe that my tomorrow will be better then my today or my yesterday. I want to continue believing that and, therefore, I don't want to see myself in ten, twenty, thirty, or forty years from today. While I don't want to see myself in ten years, I do want to find a way to increase the happiness I feel today, as well as that I will expect to experience in ten years. So I guess I should try experimenting with gratitude because expressing gratitude is supposed to increase a person's happiness.