We can’t be sure what the future will bring (though things do tend to get better over time, on average), so it’s best to be prepared for some unfortunate eventualities. Also, I spend a lot more time being a creator, without fearing ridicule. The best benefit of being financially independent is to be able to speak your mind when you see something wrong. As a result, you can take more risks and not worry as much about what your friends, colleagues, and bosses think. "Further, as you build more wealth and grow your income, your fear of running out of money also declines. Remember, your financial independence number is not ready if you don’t have the courage to change a suboptimal situation!" he said. As a result, you will feel less insecure, less shy, and have more courage to live the life that you want. "Your confidence will naturally grow as you get older and gain more wisdom. At the same time, as you grow older, your perspective shifts and you start seeing some advantages compared to when you were younger.
Your waistline will expand and you’ll find more and more health issues pop up as you get older,” the financial expert said. "You cannot just wing it like you did as a teenager or a healthy 20-something years old eating pizza all day. Therefore, you have to be dedicated to eating properly and exercising regularly, especially over the age of 30," he told Bored Panda. "Health is absolutely the main thing that will decline and hurt the quality of your life if you don’t focus on it. There are certain things that we know for a fact we should focus on: our health, our loved ones, our passion projects, and our shift toward financial independence.įinancial expert Sam Dogen, the author of ‘Buy This, Not That,’ recently explained to Bored Panda that, as time goes by, we should give greater and greater priority to our health. Besides, it’s often difficult to recognize the fact that we’re living in the best of days when we don’t know what the future will bring. However, it’s a bit of a double-edged sword because we can get lost in it: we might even ignore our current lives, letting them go down in quality. It can remind us of the good old days and help us power through many tough situations in the present. Though it can be hard to imagine what that would be," he mused. It's likely that in the 2070s those things are long gone and replaced by something much more advanced. "I think social media and smartphones are very defining for the 2010s and 2020s. Meanwhile, the historian shared his thoughts about what the people of the future might be nostalgic about.
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Take for instance the movie series 'Back to the Future.' I've read interviews, where the scriptwriters and actors, to some extent, back in the mid-1980s actually believed that we would have flying cars in 2015," he noted that our hopes for the future don't always come true. "History has shown us time and time again how things can unfold in completely unexpected directions. Klaus, the author of the post, told Bored Panda that, as a historian, he's not really into trying to predict the future. Futurology is all guesswork, even if some of it is done very diligently and scientifically.
But all things considered, anyone talking about the future with certainty is probably lying or trying to sell you something. That way, you can more or less gauge what our tech may look like a few years from now. One strategy that you could rely on involves looking at the investment space and seeing what technologies certain companies pump money into developing. Predicting what the future will look like is a very tough challenge.
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Read on for our full interview with Klaus. He said that the inspiration for the r/AskReddit post actually came from an exercise he often does in his own history classes. Klaus shared that he has a background in history and social science, and has been a high school teacher in Denmark for the past 10 years. We’d also love to hear your own thoughts about what you think many of us will feel a deep sense of longing for in the decades to come, so be sure to drop by the comments to share your thoughts.īored Panda reached out to the friendly author of the viral thread, u/klausbrusselssprouts, and he was kind enough to answer our questions in detail. Read on for a perspective on the present through the lens of the future, and don’t forget to upvote the posts you agree with, Pandas. If nothing else, it’s a reminder of just how great life is right now, despite its challenges and imperfections. Spoiler warning: people's outlooks about the future are pretty grim. Prompted by redditor u/klausbrusselssprouts, the folks over at r/AskReddit shared some great insights and opinions about the things that people might be nostalgic for, 50 years from now. It’s tough to know what exactly you might miss in the future, but it's great for feeling grateful for what we have now.
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