“Let’s see what happens in the future.”

2026 Day 199. #PersonalDays.

This is a statement I have often used over the past few years. It helps me realise that some outcomes are entirely out of my hands and worrying about them will not help me. I am someone who likes to plan ahead, but if a situation has too many possible outcomes, then I tell myself to wait for what happens and move on.

Recently I have been realising that I have grown to use this statement as a away to not have long-term plans and such. I ignore making a bigger picture, I have forgotten to dream, and I have forgotten to fight for what I want.

This is a big change I now want to see in myself.

I am doing a lot of work that has given me some returns in the short term. I have written detailed blogs about how writing, reading, running, and constantly putting myself out there has transformed me. The change is not something that can be tracked on a spreadsheet (well maybe the physical attributes) but I can observe some changes in the way I view things.

One of the major changes I have made is better recognising situations and reacting to them with quickly and with resolve. Instead of debating if a certain action is the best or not, I pick the action that will bother me least in the long term.

This often involves putting me first and possibly inconvenience others. If I have to choose between myself and others I will minimise the problems of for others the best I can but I would still put myself first at the end of it.

While making better less consequential decisions is progress, there is still a lot of work to be done.

Often we talk about the kind of person we would like to settle down with, and where do we imagine our lives ending up. I too have thought about similar things, and made some plans. I have shared these ideas with others too but the conversation always ended up with “let’s see what happens in the future”.

This is the bigger change I need to make.

My biggest fear with the change is that I could dream of something and then not be able to realise it. Failure is the scariest thing that I have had very little experience dealing with. All my life I have worked to avoid failure instead of achieving success.

My motivation factor was rarely to be the best, and more so to be better than the worst. While it worked so far in structured environment like school, colleges, and corporate workplaces, when you step out of all of this it feels like the wild west.

The world moves with a certain velocity, it appears to have structure with all the laws and rules surrounding us but everything works like magic. Success hinges on one crucial moment that could have flipped everything. So much happens behind the scenes that you would be surprised.

I always assumed that the world worked like a bunch of gears working together. Sure you might need to grease some layers but overall there was a structure to it.

Now I have to come realise that this structure is not the norm but the exception. Everything that works and happens is often attributed to cunning, planning, and perseverance. Sheer luck can beat all three.

This blog however is not about how helpful luck is, but instead to capitalise on it.

Have big dreams and ideas and take the biggest gamble possible. Failure just means you get to try again. Because you have not failed yet if you have the resources to try again.

I understand that this advice only sounds good in theory, but it does not concern itself with practical decisions. If you have a 40% chance of success and a 60% chance of a major loss, you need to make the practical decision.

But if you have 0.001% chances of success and 99.999% chance of nothing changing in your life, then you must take the gamble. And you will only have the opportunity to gamble if you have dreams that you are willing take chances for. Move every moment and grab every opportunity no matter how obscure it seems.

Let your hopes and dreams out in the universe. It is not guaranteed that you will realise everything, but on the off chance that something works out, you will be better for it.

Hope. Dream. Pray. Take risks.

See you tomorrow.