The Origins of "It Will Come": A Practice For Our Future

The motto "It Will Come" was not something I created—it was something I inherited. It arrived as a story from my mother, then became a steady drumbeat through the seasons of my life.

The Wellness Problem: The Anxiety of Forced Outcomes

We live in an era of "Speed without Soul." We feel a constant pressure to force outcomes, to hit metrics at any cost, and to "make things happen" through sheer willpower. This creates a chronic state of "Outcome Anxiety"—a wellness problem where our internal cadence is constantly out of sync with our natural rhythms.

The Root Cause: Disconnection from Ancestral Time

The root cause is our disconnection from systemic, ancestral time. We have forgotten how to trust slow roots. My maternal great-grandfather in Tuvalu had a saying: "tēnā loa e fanatu". He used it to describe a time when future generations would return to ancestral wisdom after a period of forgetting. It literally means, "it will come."

The CSD Resolution: The "It Will Come" Protocol

In Conscious Stack Design™, we treat "It Will Come" as a foundational protocol for moving through uncertainty.

1. Patience in the Waiting: Trust the process while moving with intention. Like a Polynesian navigator, you don't fight the ocean; you read its signals.
2. Persistence in the Doing: Lay foundations, nurture good constraints, and listen to the field. Consistent, values-aligned action is the only thing that compounds.
3. Human Velocity: Reject extractive design. Build tools and communities that honor human rhythms, consent, and context.

"It Will Come" is the antidote to the hustle culture. It is a covenant with time and truth. If we hold to it, the future we're seeking won't merely arrive—we'll be ready to meet it.

Through patience and persistence, it will come.