No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

by Michael J. Fox

I’m taking my time. Time isn’t taking me.

Optimism and idealism, tempered with realism. To succeed, we’d have to put hard work behind our hopefulness.

This is how my mind isn’t working.

With gratitude, optimism becomes sustainable.

When I visit the past now, it is for wisdom and experience, not for regret or shame. I don’t attempt to erase it, only to accept it. Whatever my physical circumstances are today, I will deal with them and remain present. If I fall, I will rise up. As for the future, I haven’t been there yet. I only know that I have one. Until I don’t. The last thing we run out of is the future. Really, it comes down to gratitude.