What will your life be like in three years?

I am so very uncertain about the future that I do not know what my life will be like three years from now. The older I get, the harder it is for me to understand where I might be 1096 days from now. The future is just too hard to predict.

My lack of surety and my increasing uncertainty are based on the following.

I am an ageing old man. In three years from now, I will have transitioned from septuagenarianship to become an octogenarian. Life is fraught with uncertainty for a person at that age. One doesn’t know what one’s health it’s going to be like. Physical propensity and mental acuity are hard to predict.

The world is in a very uncertain place. I live in Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. With the threat of war all around and given the uncertainty of peace continuing with our region, I can be sure of nothing. One thing is for certain. If Woolworths or break out in this part of the world Darwin Business be right in the firing line because of our proximity to Southeast Asia and because of the fact that Darwin is increasingly a military city.

Environmentally, the increasing heat we are experiencing, the fact that earthquakes are happening to our north and south and with more frequency than before, the vagaries of the cyclone season, and the ever increasing propensity for bushfires, make me very unsure when contemplating this particular question.

In a social context there is increasing discord within our community. Race, religion, and sociological factors give rise to feelings of insecurity. Along with that is an escalation in crime and the physical insecurities that one feels because of behaviours are happening within the community.

In three years from now?

I am unsure.

Very unsure.

VERY, VERY UNSURE!