Here are some ways I've been looking at the future:
This is the last time I'll see these particular trees in my back yard turn colors. Next year at this time I'll be living somewhere else, and see different trees lose their leaves.
I just placed my order for my cap and gown. Four years from now I'll have my college graduation to look forward to.
Ten years from now I will have become what I set out to be, working and driving (I hope) a paid-for Mustang GT.
How awesome is that?