A Fine Sense of Future

Future is a bottomless abyss that keeps devouring past and present instantly and constantly. Hidden and unseen, it consumes everything coming in its way. It has in store our life, our destiny, our secrets, our failure and prosperity. It is opening momentarily, but it is mindbendingly immense. It is the begetter of the entire past, and the begetter of every coming moment. In fact, it is a vast territory producing all the moments. It is like a vast body of water whose unseen side resembles an immense ocean, connected to a strait tunnel whose water is trickling from the other side of the tunnel. In fact, this trickling water is the moments that are opening to our lives. It is like a garden onto which our windows are opening, but we know nothing of the garden itself. It is like a vast book that we read it word by word, and daily we are going to a new page of life, but we are not able to turn over many pages at once, or to open up an new chapter of the book. We have no choice but to read it word by word, turn it over page by page in order to see a new page. If we imagine a moment to be a word, a page a day, a chapter will appear to be a decade or a century.

What we heavily lean on is the present, whose life is shorter than humming bird’s flapping wings. In reality, the present is not but a brief, narrow bridge between the past and future. We imagine it but it does not exist, because there is not a moment of wait. In fact, we are living between past and future, and that is what we call it present. Present seems to be the magic of a magicians who capture our eyes to take their performance for granted, but as a matter of fact, it has no substance to believe in. Or, in other words, present appears to be physical world, which is changeable and transitory, against metaphysical world, which is everlasting. The way metaphysical phenomena regulates, conducts, and protects physical world, future dominates past and present.

Future discloses to us information momentarily. Only the weathermen have the knowledge to predict the weather just a short while beforehand, which is happening on the basis of natural evidence.  In other respects, future is so secretive that we know nothing even of our time of death. It involves all kinds of surprises and changes: mild and mellow, severe and mind-numbing, ordinary and of no consequence. We are screened from the future to confront with these surprises and changes. In fact, if there was no screen between us and the future, and we could accurately predict our future, then we could prevent all the inevitable, addressing all the changes, softening the severity of the circumstances. For example, if we were liable to an accident, we could avoid it by changing our direction or our plan; or, for example, we were subject to an illness, we could avoid it by abstaining from eating bad food, drinking bad drink, breathing the polluted air, or wherefrom the illness may have been due. Thus, we see that we could keep all those unexpected happenings and changes at bay if we have our way open to the future. Thus, future is hidden from us to enclose our destiny and prevent it from exposition. Every moment we get a bit of what the future has in store, no matter how momentous or minute, how tiny or tremendous. Sometimes these moments are holding big moments as birth and death, sometimes nothing, just moments of breathes.

With all its secrecy, one thing I am convinced about future that it produces nothing but the truth although many a time we cannot grasp, because its grasp needs depth, clairvoyance, and wisdom. By producing the truth I mean if you plant a particular seed, it will only yield the fruit of that particular seed, or if you study for a test, the fruit of your study will be a passing score, the outcome depending on what has been studied and on the merit of the test taken. Another good example is that good deeds always yield good fruit, bad deeds bad. Thus, if one expects for his or her dark deeds a bright future is not wise. Therefore, the fruit of misjudgment is nothing but a terrible regret. As a matter of fact, what the future has in store will be predictable depending on our understanding and wisdom. As far as our daily experience is based on truth, so is the grasp of our own future. Thus, future with all its secrecy, can be safe if we are prepared for it.