What should I be learning or doing now to prepare for an uncertain future?

The honest answer: no one knows what will matter. But Mirabai's life suggests what tends to weather uncertainty—and it's not survival skills or doomsday prep. It's depth. Learn something that connects you to your own aliveness: music, growing food, mending, storytelling, listening. Deepen one relationship that feels true. Examine your own heart—what do you actually believe? What do you love? What compromises have you made that cost you? This inner work isn't navel-gazing when the world feels precarious. It's exactly what's needed. Because the future—whatever it looks like—will need people who know who they are, what they stand for, and how to find meaning without external validation. It will need people who can create beauty and meaning in difficult conditions, who can lead without ego, who can grieve without despair. You prepare for that by becoming that. Start where you are. The examined life isn't a luxury; it's what we owe the future.