Monday, July 28, 2008

Future

I keep on talking about the past. I should also touch on the future. If you can go forward in time, what'd you change?

I thought I'd go rob a bank since no one will know it's me. But I guess it'll be found out since banks have all those highly efficient, highly pressured individuals who ensure that the banks are highly efficient and highly pressured. Then I thought of being Robin Hood-robbing the rich to help the poor and which rich I'd rob. But I realised I can't do that. If it's someone you don't like who happens to lead a difficult life in the future and you rob him, even if it's someone you don't like, you'd hesitate to rob him because you'd feel sorry for his plight.

Future. This word seems so distant. What is my future going to be like? Somehow, I feel that my life was planned long ago by forces not mine and I'm only living the life that was mapped out long ago. Am I to continue on this trajectory which was destined long ago? The past-I cannot change. I look back and realise there are things I'd missed out in life and feel shortchanged. After all the reflection and self-beating, I'm back to myself, being alone and looking into the mirror at myself. I can only attempt to change the future because what's past is past. How do I want my future to be like? I try to create that future. There's a long way to go. I wonder if my attempts are going to be futile if the other powers have already cursed me to a doom. What's the use of working towads a future if there's no future?

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