Wonder...

Sometimes I wonder what the future holds. I realize that knowing the future may alter its outcome and create an alternate of what it should be but on the other hand if one was to see the future it would mean that all paths are fixed and that when an event is foretold all the action that lead up to it must and will happen in a given sequence. So the act of me typing this is in fact done not because i chose to do so but because it had to happen for some other future event to happen. 

There is a third alternative that might be possible. What if only specific events are set. Like a town or city on a map. Many roads may go to it through various landscapes. Some roads may take you there faster than other while some roads are more enjoyable. I would like to think that this is how time works however as I may have expounded in a previous post time is a relative constraint that we have created to give our lives a sense of boundary. 

What if we could see the future? What would we want to see? What our lives will be like in 5 years? 10 years? a hundred years? Maybe we created a work of art or wrote a moving poem, will it be still of value a thousand years from now? Maybe we are thinking on a altruistic level and want to prevent harm to others by diverting harm from them. Sure we would make the world better for them but what are the things that could go wrong? Would the creators of such instruments as the internal combustion engine have stopped their work had they known that many people would die in automobile crashes and the ensuing fumes that it put out further damage our environment. 

What would our lives have been like if someone from our past saw the future. And how many someone's are going to have this gift? Do we all get it. Or maybe the select few of whom we most certainly have to be a part of... right? To give this an even bigger twist what if you were the only person who could not? That would be a bummer! Would you depend on everyone around you to tell you what to do or live your life and let the chips fall where they may. 

Sometimes I wonder what the future holds, but, most of the time I am glad I don't have to know till I get there. Bring on the open road and roll down the windows, maybe even stop at some beautiful vista to take it all in. Because at the end of the day the only thing that is going to be certain is what road you chose and if you stopped once in a while to smell the flowers before you end up pushing them up.