Future Perfect.
If the impenetrability of the future makes you anxious too, it’s not surprising. Hormonally, it is the exact same recipe as excitement, and biochemically, you could never tell the two apart. In the humming cylinder of a CT scanner, waiting for bad news, or about to accept the award for “artist of the year”— the same cascade. As we learn to sit with it, this profound unknowability, and understand the provocations of our overactive human mind, we come to see our nature and what we are capable of: anything.
