Carpe Diem

We all have a preset version of how our life is going to play out. We all have dreams and aspirations and things that we just think are going to happen based on our experiences and the influence of those around us. I feel like those presuppositions are faulty. What we think is going to happen, the way, the scene in which it happens is nothing like it actually goes down. People always say that you're going to be challenged and that real life is going to be tough and blah, blah blah. I think the thing we miss is that it's going to be tough in a way we never expected. Instead of getting a curveball we are thrown a fastball and don't even see it coming as we get that third and final out. We think we are prepared but we don't even know the beginning of what we are getting into. It's like bringing a winter coat to the Saraha.
Everything we believed in is going to be questioned, demanded and tested. Every mistake we've ever made has nothing on the stuff we are going to do in the future. Things we thought we'd never let go of, never release suddenly become expendable in that moment of desperation as we see the mirages our biased thinking presents before us. Hopefully we survive. Hopefully we get past it and our colored glasses don't change the reality that is our existence to the point that we can't survive. What I'm scared of most is that my perception of the world is so convoluted that I won't realize until too late what was right in front of me all along.
What about you? What is your fear for the future that lies ahead?