I watched a very interesting movie the other day.
The storyline was not unique, in fact, several films and made for television movies have been created in recent times using the whole concept of seeing into the future.
But what made this film particularly interesting was a line that the main character said at the beginning and then again at the end of the movie.
“Here’s the thing about the future,” said Frank Cadillac, “every time you look at it, it changes because you looked at it, and that changes everything.”
While it was an entertaining movie with a fabulous surprise ending, this line stood out in my mind long after the credits rolled.
The reason why this line held such prominence in my mind is that people have been searching for ways to see into the future for centuries.
For some reason, human beings believe that if they know what is going to happen before it happens; their lives will be the better for it.
Right now, there is research being conducted by reputable scholars in the
United States to determine whether a rather innocuous black box found deep in the basement of a dusty university library in
Edinburgh holds the secrets of the future.
According to an article posted
February 11, 2005 on www.redorbit.com, this small black box, roughly the size of two cigarette packets side by side, churns out random numbers in an endless stream, and appears to be capable of peering into the future and predicting major world events.
The machine apparently sensed the bombings of the
World
Trade
Towers and the Asian tsunami a few hours before the catastrophes occurred.
It is now being hailed as a small box with “inexplicable powers.”
What if you could peer into the future?
If you see something you do not like, chances are you will change it.
When these changes occur, it will no longer be the future you saw, but a new reality, with a new future.
At the end of the day, the issue that needs to be examined is why we want to see into the future while we are living in the present?
Perhaps your life as it is now is not the way you want it, so you fool yourself into believing it would be better or at least different in another time and place.
The simple truth is this; if you haven’t done anything to prepare yourself for the future, what makes you think something extraordinary awaits you in that far off distant place you call the future?
As a very naïve seventh grader, I can vividly remember watching the girls in grade twelve with such excitement and awe as they glided up and down the campus.
I can still remember asking myself what it would feel like to be sixteen and in the twelfth grade.
I thought some wonderful metamorphosis was going to occur and I was going to wake up in grade twelve a mature, all-knowing sixteen year old.
Then the next thing I knew I was 25 years old looking in the mirror asking myself when this phenomenal change was going to take place.
I was so caught up in getting to this ubiquitous place somewhere in the future, that I forgot to be phenomenal and spectacular while I was in the present.
Simply put, it is in the present that we need to be in order to recognize the changes as they occur.
We need not worry about the future, because it will come whether we are ready for it or not.
Therefore, you must ask yourself if you are living your life in the present and being fully in the presence of your life each day.
On the other hand, are you one of those individuals sitting on the periphery hoping to get a glimpse of what may happen someday in the future?
About the author: Joye Ritchie-Greene is an Educational Consultant, Writer and Martial Arts Instructor. She is the owner/operator of The Bahamas Martial Arts Academy; president of Time-Out Productions; and is also a columnist for the Freeport News. She has a B.A. in English and an M.S. in Human Resources, resides in Freeport, Grand Bahama with her husband and enjoys playing tennis. Joye can be reached at
joye_hel_ena@hotmail.com
