Hello there, future ...

O, future

What you`ve in your store for me, eternity, downfall or leap

I`ll continue to strive, or it`s going to be my forever sleep

Tick…tock…tick…tock…, my room was silent in the dusk except this sound of clock, 6:30 I peeked out of the window  then I imagined myself slowly crafting ways in my mind till I could sense the smell of success and triumph, a car horn`s honk distracted me, oh it`s already 6:40. 6:35 was my future in 6:30 which was time  for my regular evening walk, I got lost dreaming about my future. Sighing deeply, I started having deep thoughts on future. What is future? Dream? Expectations? Fantasy? Uncertainty? Upcoming? Time? I see no definition for future, full of surprises and mystery that can change anything to everything and everything to anything,  unbreakable rock to sand and a sand to rock, Richie rich to beggar and poor to wealthy, wise to stupid and silly to intelligent, beloved to enemy and enemy to friends for life, just anything is possible in future. For me, future is a shapeless vision ruled by many like hard work, patience, dedication, ability, potential, possibility and a bit of luck, a quick slip and it`s gone forever.

Knowingly and unknowingly, we all are chasing future hoping to see something better than today, wanting more than today, more filled than today and when it shows we begin more expecting for future, so funny yet a fact. I have no idea whether this emotion will bring better days or ruin the happiness but it`s our way of life. During this countdown, we have lost many and we have gained many (mortal or immortal), sometimes wantingly and sometimes unwantingly. Things my parents thought were problems like having to do lots of physical work in fields, transportation for easy access to commodities, ability to communicate easily, we have conquered it but their future (our present) has its own problems like degraded value of relationships, shrinkage in world geography through “social medias” but distance in heart communications, stress, fast foods, artificiality , generation gap etc.  God knows what our future generations will have, it`s a vicious circle.

When future shows up, fascination comes along, unfulfilled fascination brings frustration. So are the people of this generation, our parents have analyzed all the shortcomings in their life which they believed, after conquering we would be happy but it wasn`t the case. Now they see even more empty lives, more depressed populations, more self- centered habits, more expectations. But I have always seen future `as a candy for a child`, because it makes our present fresh and more enthusiastic else we would remain covered in particular emotion.  We are aware Karma(present) crafts our karma(future) and life is hanging in the small thread of hope for tomorrow. The most interesting thing about future is it always brings two questions, “why me?’’ and ‘’why not me?’’

Future can be blessing as well as curse. Have you wondered why is it so uncertain? Like a food chain, everyone`s karma is so connected that it makes an interconnected web invisibly which makes one person unknowingly accountable to other person`s situation. ‘’Man is born free, but everywhere in chain’’ – Rousseau, has rightly said. Life can only be understood backwards and it should be lived forwards. Whether there is joy of triumph or lesson of failures, conquer it, FUTURE IS OURS.