The Journal

24 May 2026

LOOK UP!

The world right now is a lot to carry.

Wars that feel closer than they should. Economic pressure that doesn't let up. A cost of living that keeps climbing while wages stand still. Job uncertainty that hums quietly in the background of everything. And now — the looming question that nobody has a clean answer to — what happens to us when AI evolves to a point where most of what we do can be done without us?

We're already pushing boulders up mountains that never end. Scaling skyscrapers so high we can't see the top. And for many people, the transformation coming isn't just unsettling — it's genuinely frightening. Not knowing where you'll fit. Not knowing how you'll survive it. Not knowing which version of the world you'll wake up in next.

I don't have the answers. Neither does anyone else — whatever they tell you.

But I've been sitting with something this week that I keep coming back to.

We can't keep looking down.

When we look down we see the distance we could fall. When we look sideways we lose our footing. The only direction that keeps us moving — that keeps us alive to what's possible — is forward. Upward. Over the horizon to where our goals and dreams and the life we're building is waiting.

That doesn't mean pretending the fear isn't real. It is real. The uncertainty is real. The challenges are real.

It means choosing — in spite of all of it — to focus on what we can control. To enrich our lives with faith, with positivity, with the quiet but unshakeable belief that we can reach the top of any mountain we decide to climb.

You were made for more than surviving this moment.

Look up!