Formative tension towards the future

Abstract

Tending and moving towards the future is not a very commonly practised exercise; consequently, it is rarely taught and learned. In fact, forming towards the future implies a real fight against indifference, a new awareness about one’s own and others’ perceptions and conceptions as well as expectations about what will happen. Such a tension provides for an attention to the consequences
of the actions and the events of the past and of the present on the future. However, predicting and foreseeing are constituent activities of the humanity itself who constantly live of possibilities and in possibilities. Memory and imagination intersect each other in order to permeate the “worlds” of possibilities that humanity build and inhabit. The creativity and the relational quality of these worlds are a main responsibility of those formative processes that are bent on giving up repetitiveness.