I am fortunate to experience the life of a student of psychology. It isn’t one of the easiest walk, but fruits of labour are rich in information. This leads me to say that me, like any such psychology students did not fail to hear that I might actually know to read people’s brain. Many have approached me asking ‘what their future holds for them’ while others left a remark of acknowledging that whether they showed signs of normal human beings.
Well, my topic today isn’t about the journey of in-process-psychologist but I was rather intrigued by our insatiable need to learn what future holds for us. This is the land where pandits reading into future live with fortune and marriages are common sight of astronomical matches or names are choice of future likings. Where does it crop up from? Is it an innate tendency or a result from environmental inconsistencies?
The journey of seeking answer led me towards posing more questions to google guru and exhaustive reading of research articles.
Here my share to you sweet peeps:
It is ultimately argued that it is uniquely human ability to pre-experience future events. Like shiz serious! No one in Animalia shares this ability with us. It is our mental flexibility that helps us become future oriented so that we can make novel combinations of specific elements and booommm!! a look ahead in time. Other is our ability of ‘contextual detachment’ which in simple terms means detaching from immediate experiences of situations in which a future-oriented behaviour can be performed.
There is more for my people who are really interested in knowing of mechanisms behind at http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1655/20130486
further on: Looking within the surface to know why are we so frenzy about future?
There is this ‘fear of unknown’ among us. We don’t want to be ignorant. And it is in this where lays our obsession with future know-how.
The confidence. We want to be confident of what we talk about and what we do. And we can only be so if we know!
The criteria of planning, functioning and executing requires us to pre-think stuff. And these functions are so intricate to being humans that we do not want to miss those out.
Aversion to failing. Who likes failing? Unless one of us has Thomas Edison’s attitude, we better be prepared to overrun failure.
And also, need to control. Of course, we can’t control something that is out of our reach.
So, next time you future jump the present, bless yourself to be human but also analyse where lies the dearth to fill.
-- cheers to new year!!
‘What and if are two words as nonthreatening as words can be. But put them together, side by side, and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life.’- letters to Juliet.
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