Well, I saw that device for the first time at New York City and can't help but wonder at the rate at which the world, science and technology are moving. The scientist next to me told me it's a device that can predict the future, very accurately. In short, it can predict anyone's future, but what they didn't mention was the price/cost of knowing.
I asked if I could touch and hold the device in my hand. And they agreed, part of me wanted to ask for a test, maybe what will happen tomorrow, part of me wanted to just get it right there and pay for it. There's that part of me that really want to know where I'll be in five years time, I want to know if I'm really going the right path, if I'm going to succeed. But, another part of me couldn't just come to accept that, that part of me wants to remain in this messy and unpredictable present where life comes with surprises
After a little persuasion, they agreed I can only try once, I was glad and at the same time my heart was beating. I didn't know when to press, maybe 5 or 10 years to come. Well, I went for 6years. And the screen blinked before me, right before me was that me dressed in suit, a cloth I doubt if I can ever put on. I saw myself on stage winning/receiving an award, I was shaking hands with the new president, people came from the audience and hugged me, they were friends, friends I hadn't met yet. I really do not know how best to explain that feeling, I was confused, glad, breaking, happy, and sad, all at once.
Well, that was all I was permitted to see before time was up. The device doesn't show nor tell how our choices can possibly change the path and future seen. Only the result was seen. What do I do to achieve that, who do I walk with or who do I stay away from? There's no way to know all of that.
What happened after was surprising, what if I had seen much more than that, what would I do, what will I have turn out to be. The little I saw made me become more careful with the kind of steps and decisions I take. I stopped taking risks, I distanced myself to people I doubt I will be in my future. I already know what my tomorrow looks like, it's just good for me to be careful and mindful of my associations and decisions.
And that's what the device will do to us, it won't in any way guide us like we may think, it will only trap us. Answer this, if you were to find out and see what your future looks like, will you start living for that future or the present? Sm sure the answer is "living for the future." Whereas you've forgotten that you really do not know who will help you to get up there, you actually do not know who it is you have met or will meet that will help you up, you don't know that risk or decision you will take. You've forgotten that the beauty of life lies in the unknown—The various mistakes we make, the things we forget to do, the risk we took, the missed interview that leads to a new one, the sudden change of location that led to a new friend and such.
I say myself down and took my time to think of the various consequences of everyone were to own this device. Are we really going to be perfect, are we really going to be safe, won't we feel empty, won't we stop dreaming and fighting for a better tomorrow and all, all because our future is right before us on a screen.
I looked at the device for the last time and placed it down. I don't want to get this. I don't want it. I want my life the way it is, I love the way it is messy, I love those wrong turns and sudden laughters. Some things are meant to remain hidden/unknown. Getting that device will definitely change the turn out of things. The future is a story we write every single day, in our choices, in our decisions, in the mistakes we make and in the love we give.
So, if you ask me a million times, I still wouldn't buy it. I want the future to really surprise me, and not just some things I've seen on a screen before. I want to take that heartbreak, I want to smile, I want to take risks, relate with people, take whatever lessons and continue being myself. Life can only feel alive when it's uncertain.
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