The Future Is Not To Be Seen

The Future Is Not To Be Seen
I have been guilty of holding on to quite a few rudiments of my past quite tightly. A reluctance to release my strong grip over my past is responsible for quite a few catastrophes in my life that my hot have rung such loud bells had I let go of my past when I ought to. I ought to have moved on to greener pastures instead of clinging to black and white dreams that eventually became coloured nightmares.

There has always been a typical joy in holding on to the past as it is something I know well of. It has been a part of me so there has never been a reluctance to embrace it in any form. The future, on the other hand, is something I don’t know anything about. It is something new and novel that can present itself in any form before me when I approach it. I have to approach my future, it isn’t a matter of choice, but it is a compulsion.

I’ll have to face my future in a few days whether I like it or not. Those who profess to interpret the future by interpreting the lines on one’s palms or on one’s foreheads actually help absorb a sour tasting syrup more readily than it actually is. They give a vague description of the days to be faced and, whether they do it faithfully or not, their interpretations do make the future much more palatable than it actually is. For those who believe in the science, the future becomes like a road one has been walking over for the past several years.

There is very little one can do about the road or the breakers and pot-holes it presents before the traveler, but if the latter has an idea of what is to come by, they are not such a big surprise as they actually present. One can never prepare for these events that are to occur in one’s life, but one can only awe and be amazed at the accuracy of the predictions made. The predictions make the road seem to be the one leading to one’s home, the one which is traversed daily and repeatedly, the one that can never present a huge difficulty. One is actually prepared for the pitfalls one is to encounter, and this is what makes the road a lot easy to go on. Practically, it is a sin to believe in any kind of predictions made.

There is another set of people who refuse to believe in these predictions. They believe they write their own destiny; they are the masters of their destiny and future. Practically, it makes very little difference whether one believes in the existence of destiny or not. What is inscribed in one’s destiny has to happen whether one believes in it or not.

There is certainly a degree of immorality ingrained in the act when one consults a soothsayer. One is actually guilty of committing a sin. The dimensions of the crime are magnified when events fall into place in the exact sequence they were predicted to be in. There can never be doubts of the authenticity of the predictions made, and one is bound to look forward to other predictions coming true.

This may sound like the prophecies made before Macbeth in the first act of the play. There are three witches who predict a future for the protagonist which seems to be too good to be true. Incidentally, all the predictions made come true, and the protagonist actually works for the final prediction, that he will be the Kind of England, come true. He goes on to kill Duncan, the King of England to make the final prophecy come true.

This is only an example how giving an ear to predictions can prove to be detrimental to one’s well-being. As per some critics of the play, the prophecies made by the witches in the play, and even the witches, were  only a work of Macbeth’s  imagination. Actually, Macbeth wanted to be all that the witches predicted for him, and it was his latent desire to be the King of England that led him to murder Duncan.

Drawing a corollary, any predictions made before us may actually instill a sense of expectation of a future similar to the one predicted, and may actually push  one to make efforts for it. This works well till the point of time one isn’t  pushed towards committing a crime as committed by the protagonist in the play.

All said and done, the future is not to see. The future is always meant to be a surprise for all of us. those of us who get an idea of it may not find it as exciting and fun as those who don’t have an idea. on the other hand, having a vague idea of the future does tone down the dissonance one has to novelty in life.

The exact reason for classification of this art or science as a sin may not be known to me, but all said and done, I’m glad I have a vague idea of the events in my life and their flow through my destiny. it certainly has given me the confidence that I shall reach a definite point at the end of all my struggles against time. but, as it is, the future is not to be seen.