I was reading about Solarpunk as a genre for hopeful stories and realized how important is it for me to think about the future in a positive way. It's way too easy to fall into the doom and gloom with the current state of the world, however, it IS possible to engage in hopeful Futuring, too. But choosing to think hopeful thoughts is not always easy. The good news is that we can practice it.
On the beach, I know fore sure that the tide is coming up and I need to be prepared (and also not to be too close to the surf, because it often throws big logs on the beach). Yet, I am optimistic there because I know how to stay safe, so that I can enjoy salty water spray in the air and the feeling of the ground shaking when big waves break. It's amazing!
Applying the same thinking in life and future is much harder! It looks and sounds so scary with the climate catastrophy and everything going on. I am learning to resist the negativity bias, but also have to keep on reminding myself of changing my thinking because imagining hopeful futures will help my wellbeing. It is easy to forget that we can choose what we think.
Initially, I considered using this content to explore self-management, but then realized the it really is about our own agency (our capacity to choose our responses to problematic situations), and choosing to think possible resilient and hopeful futures.
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