#Trust30 The Future 06/16/11

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06/16/11 Prompt

The future

Decide what you want the future to be and make it happen. Because you can. Write about your future now.

(Author: Cindy Gallop)

My future, what to make of it. How to create and invent it. I feel torn on all sides of the equation. I feel that our, the world society nationally state level community personal, I feel that our future is being dictated by forces outside of human control. The planet is shifting, the world and cultures are being moved by forces they cannot see, cannot control, cannot even comprehend. The species is standing on the precipace, on the edge of an Extinction Level Event. I have written that I believe the Financial Crisis of 2008 was an extinction level event. Perhaps I was incorrect. However daily I find more and more people that have been out of work, unemployed or underemployed, since 2006 in many cases. That event has killed so much of what had formerly made America one of the better places to live on this planet.

Now there is further financial unrest in Greece and Spain. I see tie ins, causal links to what struck the US from 2006 to 2008 (Which is how long the event took to unfold from what I have observed and read, with historical precedents dating back to the late 1870s in France where similar financial events led to the French Revolution and if you tilt your head sideways a little one can draw parallels to the British / American Colonies situation that led to the formation of our own nation. Yes I see links and tie ins on a historical basis for the current World Recession and America's entry into Second World Nation status that has precedents dating back to the formation of our nation. Maybe our politicians should be historians instead of lawyers, we might have a chance then.

So I am a little unsure how to craft or invent my own future. I see various things coming about in my future:
A drive for 2 to 3 years of bills/income in savings (Since it looks like that is the average unemployment time-frame in American anymore)
Start my own business (as one cannot rely on any other employer calling you back for interviews it seems like over these last 3 months only 3 companies have come back with a comment / decline the rest have just disappeared it seems like)
Self-publish: with the death of the traditional publishing field, which honestly happened about the mid 1980s with the death of the midlists and the consolidation of most publishing companies, the routes to publication currently lie in e-pubs, self publishing, or small press either your own or someone else's. So that route is one other means to create my own future.
Gardening: I think gardening, herbs and vegetables will become very important in all American's futures

There you go, save money, my own business, publish what I want and grow my own food, this is the future I envision for Americans.