What Happens Next?

I am curious about the future. Isn’t everyone? It’s a bit of a dull answer on the surface, but bear with me.

For the last few years, probably since the pandemic, I have been looking no further than the next week or so. Maybe some of you know the feeling. You are so caught up with the rat race that pretty much all you can do is look to the weekend and hope you can get a decent rest. I stopped being curious about anything other than my payslip at the end of the month. All the interests I had before just dropped away and just surviving until the next break was the focus.

Then, I decided to resign from my job and finish full time year round teaching. Almost immediately I became enthusiastic about projects that had been mothballed, education that had been forgotten about and places I had never visited but always wanted to. My curiosity about what I was capable of returned, after a few years of being employed in a job where no one in management cared what I was capable of and I was so tired that I stopped caring.

I have a new lease of life and for however long I can I will keep my curiosity for the future.