Rebellious Thoughts #45 - 🤘 Your “Future You”

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I posted this picture and wrote this letter to my 80 year old self when I turned 40 in 2018.

27 Sep 2018

Queenstown, New Zealand.

Dear Gus,

This is you when you turned 40. It may be a vague memory in your head but I hope @instagram is still around in 2058, probably inside your brain and through some sort of augmented reality you may be walking around this scene...shit can’t even imagine.

Anyway, today you are 80! Woohoo!! and I suspect you don’t look like this any more hahaha...but hopefully you feel the same way... happy.

When you turned 40 you felt life was still accelerating, expanding like the universe...i wonder if today at 80 you feel that your universe is still expanding or is it shrinking into a singularity? I hope you are still guided by only seeking the success you desire to seek... no-one else’s.

Today your family is in Melbourne, they are young, they are waiting for you to arrive so we can have dinner, pack and head to Borneo... another distant memory by now too! Where are your kids today?

I have to tell you that I would be devastated if you are not still jumping in the water every time you get a chance... even if it is 6 degrees and your bones hurt!

Here is to you being somewhere amazing, next to the love of your life pretty wife, and with a backdrop as good as Lake Wakatipu.

Happy Birthday old man! Let’s go another 40 (surely by now we fixed all the shitty diseases and solved climate change and managed to send 1/2 the population to Mars yeah?!)

And a few years ago I imagined having this conversation with my grandkids in the year 2061…

24 April 2021

Hepburn Springs, Victoria, Australia

…you won’t believe this story….listen up kids…if you wanted to get from A to B back in the day you had to jump on the back of that animal we call a horse or walk - crazy right??

We didn’t ride horses for fun, we actually rode them cos it was the only way to travel faster - actually, jumping on the back of a horse or on a chariot pulled by a horse was the fastest way to travel on land for like 5000 years - prior to that is was walking or running for like 2 million years!

Anyway, this transport mechanism was incredibly demanding - you had to feed horses and keep them safe, know how they were feeling and speak to them in whistles, clicks and pats...you basically built a relationship with your transport!

As fun as it may sound, we then got tired of “relationship-based transport” as it was too demanding and we decided to explore new ways of getting from A to B.

While we investigated various different types, two seemed to be the best options....

One powered by exploding a super flammable liquid hard to find and refine called petroleum.

And the other option was a clean electric engine fuelled basically by the energy of the sun which as you know is what we use today and we will never run out of...

I know, you probably think: surely you picked the clean, safe, infinite option over the flammable, toxic, finite one right???....

No..... no, kids, we didn’t, we picked the toxic one that explodes and ran with it for like 100 years...until...until we realised the fuck up and it was almost too late to do something about it and yeah....you are dealing with the consequences now - sorry....

I took this pic with your nanny when we drove out of Melbourne and there were still random electrical chargers around to plug your car in to be able to keep going (I know right? crazy!!) and by the way, we still “owned” cars! Weird hey? Ok ok enough, eat your breakfast so we can go to the beach for a swim :-)

Why am I sharing these two stories??

My friend Lucas, who you often hear from, insightfully said the other day something along the lines of - “When you set up goals… you are hoping for an outcome a future “you” will receive” - clever.

There is something about sitting back and thinking about that future you and future situation.

Imagine it as a conversation, a real-life discussion or story being explained. It should give you some insights as to the kind of plans you have for that person and if it’s what you think they may need.

Here is this week’s challenge: Think of your “future you”.

Yew!

Love

xx

G

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