These writings formed a continuous connection between my past, present, and future through events in my life.

这些作品通过我生活中的事件，将我的过去、现在和未来不断地联系在一起。

youdao

I'm a teacher from a village, and my job is to teach her so that she might leave the mountain and live a better life in the future.

我是一名来自农村的老师，我的工作就是教她，让她将来能离开大山，过上更好的生活。

youdao

But to this very day I am also tormented by the fear that in my hour of need in the future, I may not obtain what will save my life or the life of my child.

但直到今天，我也受到恐惧的折磨，害怕在今后我需要的时刻，我也许不能获得可拯救我生命或我孩子生命的东西。

youdao

Which of these branches that are available to me, the branches of my life story, which is the one in which the future from here on out ?" holds more pleasure and holds less pain?"

我能得到哪些分支，我的人生故事的分支，从这里起步的哪一种未来,有更多快乐更少痛苦“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It makes me want to keep my digital life separate in future relationships, whomever they are with.

FORBES: Breaking up in a digital fishbowl, revisited. (Or: How the New York Times filleted me on the front page of the Style section)

And, in fact, those answers may hint at the direction my life could take in the future.

FORBES: Trading Time for Money

Finally, being a "smoking pariah" now, with never a day in hospital in my life, I feel that any treatment I may need in the future has long been covered by my income tax and duty paid on tobacco, so now I'm only smoking (legally obtained) duty free tobacco.

BBC: Smoker