It is July 2034.
It is warm outside, but not too warm, and inside we have everything we need: fresh and clean air and water, and good food. Our (oldest) son is about to turn 9 – he is enjoying the summer holidays with his friends who are all away from school. Soon enough most of them will enter their fourth year of school.
We enjoy our days – a lot. They are not all the same but they have a distinct rhythm to them, a sort of contraction and expansion, if you will.
In the morning, when we wake up, we all come together and share our dreams, eat amazing food and share our plans for the day.
Then we expand again and head off on our paths of exploration.
These days, exploration is a lot more valuable than it used to be.
Play and exploration are the modes of learning that are now widely accepted to be much more effective than the old ways of learning, and there is so much for us humans to understand and explore that we could literally go on forever.
It is not certain whether we will, but it is also not impossible.
The rate of progress has been getting really intense.
So it is not unusual that we are more and more drawn to nature, maybe not only because of the physical effects it has on us but also simply because it evolves so much more slowly than our technology, and that is oddly reassuring.
We love the beach and watching the sea. Some days it is almost perfectly smooth, so much so that it is almost uncanny, and other days the waves are rolling in and roaring when they crash on the shore. No matter the weather, we always go for walks.
And almost every day we go to the community garden, especially now, in the summer. There is always something to do, and almost always something to harvest, and a good conversation to be had.
We love the people surrounding us. It feels like everything we did and experienced in the past ten years was there to bring us precisely to this place and time where we are now. It could have been another path that led us here, but the destination, at least so it feels, was always clear.