https://www.shafiq.in/tags/future/ Recent content in Future on Shafiq Alibhai Hugo en-GB 2009-2026 All rights reserved. Sun, 26 Aug 2018 06:38:48 +0000 https://www.shafiq.in/blog/being-an-architect-of-the-future/ Sun, 26 Aug 2018 06:38:48 +0000 https://www.shafiq.in/blog/being-an-architect-of-the-future/ <p>&ldquo;We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.&rdquo;</p> <p>I came across this quote from Buckminster Fuller a few days ago and it has been sitting with me ever since. Not because it is profound in some new way — I have heard variations of it before — but because it feels increasingly urgent to actually live by it rather than just nod along.</p> <p>The way I read it now, trying to figure out what to do with my life, is less about grand architectural visions and more about the small daily choices that add up to whatever kind of future I end up with. It is easy to drift. It is easy to let other people&rsquo;s plans for you, or the general momentum of things, carry you somewhere you did not choose. And then one day you look up and you are somewhere you never intended to be and you wonder how that happened.</p>