As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.
Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.
You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.
But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.
It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.