Five Years From Now, Will You Thank Yourself 5️⃣🌐🎁

Published: Thu, 01/08/26

Updated: Thu, 01/08/26

“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.”

Robert Kiyosaki

Five years from now doesn’t arrive with drama.
It doesn’t announce itself.
It just shows up one ordinary morning while you’re brushing your teeth, and something in your chest tightens.

Regret isn’t loud. It’s subtle. It’s the quiet recognition that you cooperated with a life you didn’t choose.

Most people imagine regret as one big mistake. The wrong job. The wrong relationship. The wrong city. But real regret is rarely about what you did. It’s about what you repeated. The small decisions you made daily that slowly shaped a life you didn’t mean to live.

That’s the part nobody likes to look at.

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Do it For the Future You.

As a speculative fiction writer, I spend a lot of time thinking about timelines. Branches. Alternate futures. Worlds that diverge based on one decision made under pressure, fear, or convenience. The irony is that most people don’t need science fiction to understand how their lives drift. They’re watching it happen in real time.

Five years from now, you won’t regret the risks you took and failed at. Failure leaves data. It leaves clarity. It leaves you sharper. What people regret is hesitation. The years spent circling the same thoughts. Waiting to feel “ready.” Outsourcing courage to a future version of themselves that never quite arrives.

The Intergalactic Catwalk Challenge: Alien Fashion Has Landed.

“They don’t just wear the future. They are the future.”

🪐 The Premise:

On the runways of cosmic metropolises — from the floating markets of Nubia-6 to the asteroid citadels of Neo-Kumasi — alien fashion models dominate the scene.

These beings don’t just model clothes.
They channel forgotten lineages, wear molecularly programmed fabrics, and alter their form to match the mood of the music.
Their movements collapse timelines. Their presence ignites political uprisings.
And every one of them traces their origin to Earth’s lost continent: Afra-Terra — a splinter dimension shaped by ancestral African dreams.

Some of them wear nothing.
Others wear sentient silks, ink-coded scarification, or biotech woven from memory strands.

The question is:
What does your alien model wear — and why?

🎥 The Challenge

VISUAL ENTRY (Required)
Create a full-body image of your Afrofuturist alien fashion model.
They must be otherworldly — yet unmistakably African in style, rhythm, or essence.

Use AI, freehand, digital illustration, collage, or 3D

Include futuristic or symbolic accessories (e.g. ancestral data tattoos, anti-gravity gele, sound-reactive fabric)

Optional: Pose your model mid-stride, mid-shift, or mid-transmission

TEXT ENTRY (Required)
Write a 250–300 word fashion dossier or catwalk profile that answers:

Name & origin planet/dimension

What they wear (or refuse to)

What makes them a standout in the fashion multiverse

A quote or thought from the model before they step onto the runway

Optional: Their impact on culture, rebellion, diplomacy, or tech

A magazine profile (Intergalactic Style Digest, 2188)

A leaked designer memo

A fan post from a cult fashion blog

🧠 Afrofuturist Angle:

This challenge reclaims fashion as ancestral storytelling — woven with cosmic geometry, African futurisms, and the tech-weaving wisdom of our lineages.
Your models don't just look stunning — they speak to legacy, land, and the next evolution of identity.

🏆 Prizes:

🥇 First Place: $50 + full feature + animated character video (if possible) + inclusion in The Intergalactic Fashion Codex PDF

🥈 Second Place: $25 + feature in newsletter

🥉 Third Place: $10 + mention in the "Holographic Highlights" visual reel

Select entries may appear in:

An Urban Fantastic art zine

A digital “Alien Vogue” reel

The AI-generated Intergalactic Runway Show (let’s build this!)

📬 Submit to: marksmanstudios1@gmail.com
Subject line: "Alien Fashion Model Submission."
Attach your image and/or paste your write-up in the email.

📅 Deadline: 25th January 2026

Attach your art + text entry. You may include your social handle if you'd like to be tagged.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth:
Your future self doesn’t exist yet.
And they don’t owe you anything.

We like to imagine our future self as wiser, calmer, and more disciplined. As if time itself does the work. It doesn’t. Time only amplifies whatever you repeat. If you avoid today, you don’t magically become decisive later. You just become better at avoiding.

Regret is rarely about ambition. It’s about honesty.

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Five years from now, the question won’t be, “Did I succeed?”
It will be, “Did I tell the truth about what mattered to me—and act accordingly?”

Most people don’t regret not becoming famous or wealthy. They regret abandoning the version of themselves that once cared deeply about something. A project. A value. A standard. A relationship with their own potential.

And here’s what makes this difficult:
Doing the right thing rarely feels heroic in the moment.
It feels lonely. Boring. Unimpressive.

Acting without applause because no one cares when you’re coming up.

But it keeps you honest because that’s what failure is all about. Regret, on the other hand, says something worse: “I knew—and still didn’t move.”

Ask yourself this question - not once, but regularly:
“Will my future self thank me for this?”

Comfort is seductive. It feels like safety. But comfort compounds just like discipline does. Five years of choosing comfort over alignment may seem harmless, but it feels like desperate failure. You make it look like mild dissatisfaction, but it's destroying you inside.

The future doesn’t punish you for boldness.
It punishes you for avoidance.

This isn’t about hustle. Or grinding. Or turning your life into a performance. It’s about coherence. Living in a way where your actions don’t quietly betray your values.

Five years from now, you won’t remember most of your excuses.
You will remember the moments you ignored your own signal.

So don’t ask, “What’s the smartest move?”
Ask, “What’s the honest one?”

Regret doesn’t come from doing too much.
It comes from shrinking when you knew better.

Today matters more than you think—not because it’s special, but because it’s repeatable.

Five years from now is being built right now.
Quietly.
Daily.
By you.

Peace, love and power.