 Hey everyone and welcome to Depression2Expression. My name is Scott and today we are talking about the future. We are talking about the dirty unknown, the thing everybody's scared of. And I had a great conversation with someone, a new friend of mine about a week ago, about this exact subject and that's what brought on her anxiety was thinking about the future. What am I going to do with my life? I don't know what to expect tomorrow. And as I thought about this, we both had a great conversation and I thought, that's not right. You deal with the unknown every single day. You're not scared of the unknown or the future. Listen guys, when you wake up you don't know if your bus is going to be on time. You might not know what's going to be for lunch. You don't know if you're going to get hit by a car or not. You don't know if you're going to get cut off by another car. You don't know if there's going to be some crazy deadline that's going to come up at work. You don't know if there's going to be a pop quiz. There's all these little things that you have no idea about that may or may not happen. I'm telling you, you deal with the unknown every single day and just think about it in your own experience and you'll see that I'm right with this. So, since we deal with the unknown every single day, yet we somehow live every day, why aren't we scared of every single moment of every single day and crippled by the fact that the next moment might be something unexpected? Well, that's because we don't actually fear the unknown. We fear the thought of the unknown. The only time we're anxious of the unknown in the future is when we stop and think, shit, what am I doing with my life? Where am I going to be in two years? What am I going to do in three months? Holy shit, am I going to work here? Am I going to live there? What the hell's going to happen? We're only scared of the thought. So, next time that thought comes to mind and that you feel anxious about the future, I want you to tell yourself a few things. One of them is, hey, give yourself a pat on the back. Give yourself a little hug and say, you deal with the unknown every goddamn day. Right now, I'm finally just thinking about it and of course, you can say the classic, this thought too shall pass. The next thing I want you to think about when this anxiety comes up about the future and the thought of the unknown and how scared you are, think about this. What is the future? What is the future? If I'm thinking about this correctly right now, every time I think about the future, you're replaying things that you've already experienced but then twisting them out into some different kind of projection into a future experience. You can't have an original thought unless you've experienced something before. If I tell you, okay, this is going to be weird, if I'm asking you to picture a pink elephant, you're probably going to think of an elephant that maybe you've already seen a pink elephant, maybe mixing an elephant that you've seen in a nature documentary, mixed with this pink rose that you saw in the sidewalk. There is no original thought. It's only things you've experienced in the past. So what we're fearing of the future is most likely this horrific and stressful past that we've experienced, some trauma and projecting that into the future. Therefore, there's nothing unknown about these future thoughts. It's just the worst pain we've experienced and we're guessing and we're projecting that it's going to happen again, maybe in some different form or scene. I hope I explained that correctly. If not, write in the comments that I'm a lunatic. I would love your constructive criticism. But I want you to say those two things though, okay? You're not scared of the unknown. You deal with it every goddamn day and you're a genius. And secondly, the future is not real. It's only our past projections on an unknown future experience. Does that make sense? Nip slip. All right, see you guys. Honestly, everyone, with these tips, I never want to discount how you feel and how much anxiety this thought of the future can bring, okay? It can be just devastating, these thoughts and feelings of anxiety. So I just want to say that, first of all. Second of all, if you did find it helpful, this little quick tip and these two things, please give it a like. Please comment. Let me know what you thought. And if you're new here to the Depression 2 expression community, please subscribe for more videos. All right, take care. Love you.