Are you scared for the future?

fear is the mindkiller
I fear nothing because I have faith
and love

There are things about the future that make me feel trepidation rather than outright fear. In less than three years, I'm going to start a job that carries a huge amount of responsibility. At that point, I imagine I'm going to be pretty scared, but I'll try not to worry about it too much for now! I do have a few fears about my hearing, which seems to be declining, but I don't think there's much that can be done about it so I'll just have to take it as it comes and hope it doesn't affect my fitness to practise. I have other worries, but I'd rather not dwell on them too much!

No, not at all.

Not for myself, but for my children, grandchildren, future generations

No, though neither terrified or excited. Just living in the day, making some plans and seeing them come to fruition.

not scared per se, more darkly curious

Not really. A little troubled here and there. But generally looking forward to new challenges and new developments.

> I do have a few fears about my hearing, which
> seems to be declining, but I don't think there's much that can be
> done about it so I'll just have to take it as it comes and hope it
> doesn't affect my fitness to practise. I have other worries, but I'd
> rather not dwell on them too much!


Well take heart and remember that Beethoven was totally deaf when he wrote the Ode to Joy. He even conducted at it's premiere, although the orchestra was carefully instructed to pay no attention to Beethoven, only to the other conductor.

Well, Beethoven was a genius who was able to imagine the music, even if he couldn't hear it. I don't think just "imagining" what the heart should sound like is likely to work for me. I think there should be ways of dealing with it though - my hearing loss doesn't relate to volume (I can still hear very quiet sounds), so it may just require me to be creative (e.g. use an electrical stethoscope to record heart sounds and then find somewhere quiet to listen to them, rather than attempting to do it by the bedside).

Of course, what I should really do is take myself off to my GP to request a hearing test!

No; sometimes I'm excited, sometimes just neutral. The great thing about the future is that it will arrive regardless.

There is no future the way the country is going.

But really, I've never concerned myself my whole life about the future. I live day by day and only look ahead a week or two. I don't assume there is any future ever.

Of course living that way my whole life means I'll never be able to retire if I live that long. Right now according to my retirement investment company I should have $2 million in my 401k. Hah, I have about $68,000 which includes losing $15k this past year. Right now in order to retire I'd have to put $10k a month into my 401k.

Hey, ya got 68,000 bucks I can borrow? I can get it back to you next week.

Neither excited or scared. The future has sucked since I was born so I am used to it sucking and just accept it. Not to mention the future is really going to suck if the Democrats and Obama are not stopped.

No, I'm not scared, but I don't exactly think it's exciting either.

At this exact moment, yes. My immidiate future at least. In the long term, however, I know things will pick up. It seems right now that too many things are going the wrong way, some of them completely out of my hands.

> Hey, ya got 68,000 bucks I can borrow? I can
> get it back to you next week.

Hah. My company has no means whereby you can withdraw it unless you leave the company.

Ah well, too bad. I woulda mailed you a check from Rio though...

Yes. but living in Vegas will be fun. I love dressing up.It's my happy time. And in Vegas you can do it all year long if you want.

Not at all.

Yes.