But time will tell.

When I think about the future, what I long to see depends on which part of it we’re talking about. If I were to pass away in a year or two, the world itself probably wouldn’t look very different. Life would still be moving along in familiar ways, and nothing major would have shifted yet.

But ten or twenty years after my passing — that’s different. That’s the part of the future I would like to stay long enough to witness.

I would love to see how my daughter and the rest of my family are living in that new age. I wonder how they would grow, how they would adapt, and how they would understand the changes happening around them. We’ve always had deep conversations about life, especially the spiritual side, and I know I would miss hearing their thoughts as the world continues to evolve.

I would want to be there to see how the new age shapes their lives — and how they, in turn, shape themselves within it. I’d want to hear their perspectives, their insights, their experiences. And beyond my family, I would want to witness how society as a whole is living in that new time: how people think, relate, and move through the world.