The Wisdom of Changing the Future in the Now

Your brain is not a camera.

It does not record reality.

It’s a prediction machine—

always guessing what feels safe,

what feels stable.

1, 2, 3…

What comes next?

You already know.

It rhymes with your history—

your past beating beneath each moment.

Twinkle, twinkle, little…

What do you fill in?

Another prediction,

shaped by what you learned yesterday.

And sometimes,

your mind predicts danger:

Stay quiet. Don’t speak. You’ll embarrass yourself.

Your heart tightens.

Your chest races.

So you shrink,

and say nothing.

But what if opposite action is the way?

What if—

when your heart tightens

and your mind says hide—

you speak?

What if you become

a courageous contradiction?

What if trying something new

in the now

could change what comes next?

A brave new thing.

One step.

One breath