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What I’ve Learned About Planning for the Future
If this pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that the future is completely outside of our control
I woke up this morning to see two calendar notifications pop up on my phone — one for a dentist appointment at nine o’clock in New Jersey and the other for an appointment at ten o’clock to visit a potential wedding venue in Brooklyn with my fiancé.
I knew that the two were completely overlapping plans, but it didn’t really matter anymore. I didn’t bother to cancel either of them a few weeks ago because I didn’t need to. That had already been done for me, given the global pandemic that we’re still currently going through.
And that’s how it’s been for everyone over the past two months. Plans were being cancelled left and right. Nothing was going the way that any of us had anticipated this year would go.
I look at my dry erase calendar board that’s hung up in my kitchen each day and have completely stopped crossing out the days — I used to cross an “X’ through the boxes after each day had passed. Then, at the end of the month, all I would see was rows of boxes with X’s through them and nothing written inside.
I had really high hopes for this year when it first began. I was coming off the heels of an…
