- The future is far more frightening from a distance. Up close—when you’re finally there and caught up in the midst of it and it magically transforms into the present—that big bully off in the distance loses much of his mojo and suddenly appears quite ordinary and vulnerable and ripe for the taking. Opportunities seem to cryptically manifest where once stood only an endless string of doubts and uncertainties. Fear subsides and makes a mad dash for cover, while optimism and excitement wed to unbridled anticipation rush in to fill the vacuum it leaves behind.
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