Sometimes I like to imagine possible future situations and decide how I would react to them. For example:

1. a doctor tells me I have cancer
2. an emergency news broadcast reports that the pandemic, 7 years behind schedule but none the weaker, has finally arrived.

But not necessarily unfortunate, so these as well:

1. we go fishing and I catch 2 more trout than my dad
2. some foxy chick reads this site and, influenced also by the alluring powers of my avatar, resolves that she must fly to [location redacted] to date and fuck me.

And so I conjure up any one of these or countless other possible situations and then think about how I would likely react. The interesting bit is what happens if one of these situations actually occurs. How does my having thought about how I would react to the situation influence what my actual reaction is? Are my predictions accurate? Or am I too spellbound that the situation is happening to react in any other way than bewilderment? So far, the occurrence of situations conjured up before they happen has been so infrequent that I’m not able to answer these questions. Admittedly, part of the reason that they occur so infrequently that I can’t be sure they occur at all is that I don’t imagine possible future situations very often or with much concentration.