Be Prepared

The Boy Scouts have a great motto, one we can all apply as we enter the new year.

Being prepared might sound ominous to some; those who live in fear of change or are not open to new things. One of the things this last year has reminded me of is that life is full of surprises and though we work to complete our own list of plans life can throw curves at us that we just can't see coming.

The phrase, 'that came out of left field!' is so appropriate to recent events in my personal life and if I was a ball player I would never want to play left field! You wouldn't believe what comes out of there!

But change happens and big ones are coming. The evidence is all around us that the world is changing; who would have believed that gas would drop to under two dollars a gallon and that electric cars would threaten the powerful oil companies that have reigned supreme for a hundred years?

Some people fear the rise of AI, artificial intelligence, while at the same time they use it every day on their smartphones and tablets. The future has been in the works for a long time and the cameras of Big Brother are now accepted as inevitable and indeed have been there all along.

So my only resolution in this new year is to be prepared; but in a good way. Perhaps it would be better to say Be Open to change; life is an adventure and the only thing constant is change. Who knows what tomorrow will bring?

Be prepared!