"No doubt, the word learning denotes a change of some kind. It is difficult to say what kind of a change it is." Gregory Bateson

"The emergence of new things is not due to our intellect but due to our instinct of play which acts out of an inner necessity. Creative minds play with the objects they love." C. G. Jung

It may be quite useful to consider every moment a potential crossroads if we try to consciously shape our development.

If we are interested in the future taking a certain shape in our lives, the only time to make sure that is does is the present. After all, isn't the present basically the future? Isn't today yesterday's future? And isn't all of this about turning the future into what the present is there for?

If this is the way in which we look at the future, it is well worth asking: What do we know and feel at this moment and in this place, and how did we get here? And: how can we keep all our senses open so as to shape a vision of the future?

But even then we might find out that our knowledge consists in realizing that we basically don't know anything, and that we have to keep the question alive just the same.