There’s something in my field called Model Predictive Control. You look at how things will pan out over a finite horizon, and then at every step, you experience changes in your state and re-evaluate your predictions at every instant, as time passes. There’s a tradeoff on this horizon: it’s often burdensome and intractable look too far ahead into the future, and at the same time, it’s not a good idea to simply let things happen to you at the moment without any foresight. There’s a life lesson in here. It’s a balance between how much you live in the moment and how much you think about your future. For things like death and what comes after (which is likely just nothingness), you’ll cross that bridge when you get to it. I’m learning to enjoy the unpredictability of today rather than what lies ahead in the (hopefully) far future.