All of us need to look at our future and consider how things may work out. When envisioning our future, if our imagination runs too fast and becomes scattered, it leads to worrying. Often, such worrying is pointless because it goes too far ahead and jumps erratically. However, if we guide our imagination systematically and sequentially, considering both opportunities and challenges, such directed imagination can help us plan and prepare for the future.

Imagination that runs wild breeds pointless worrying. Imagination that is directed constructively leads to purposeful planning.

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18.35 And that determination which cannot go beyond dreaming, fearfulness, lamentation, moroseness and illusion – such unintelligent determination, O son of Pṛthā, is in the mode of darkness.