The future...

"The future...!" (Said by Orson Welles in that big, classy voice of his). Oh, it's one exciting-as place allright!

It's where cures for breast cancer, the death of impermanence, and killer robots that can speak fluent mandarin Chinese all hang out.
It's where mass production of fully electric cars by the major manufacturers is hiding. It's where the end of this sentence is (was!)

That's the god thing about the future. You can just sit back and wait for it, and it's sure to roll up eventually. You just have to be patient. Some people worry about the future, to which I say "Don't worry, it will be along presently!" Makes sense, right? Not like some people, who wait their whole lives for the past to come back, or who want "this moment to last forever". That doesn't sound so good.

I get bored easily.

I loved Def Leppard in the 80's (apart from the ridiculous lyrics of course), and I even like them once in a while right now. But listening to them non-stop from the 80's to now would have been a bit tedious. If I was still enjoying my first kiss, I think I'd be more than a little frustrated by now, but having said that, if I was still having my first orgasm, I'd be retarded to object to it. That's one of those exceptions you occasionally hear about. But on the whole, I think it's great that the future comes along an gves us all new orgasms to have. I mean, experiences.

When I was a depressed teenager, I wrote a song called "The future has yet to hurt us". Clearly, I wasn't getting laid a lot back then. But fast forward a few years, and a bazillion orgasms later, and I'm generally a lot happier.

If they administered orgasms in hospitals, society in general would a be a lot happier too (although it's hard enough to get a bed already!) The massive poplularity of naughty nurses video titles attests to the demand of this valuable public service. Who knows? Maybe in the future...but I digress.

The thing about the future, the real thing, that has nothing to do with sex or technology (seriously, why bother reading any further?!), is that it comes.

Nothing will stop it from coming, apart from your death, and then it will only stop coming for you. Besides, in that case I dare say you'll be past caring.

This is more advice to myself really but if you can squeeze some juice out of it to, go right ahead...

I have this idea in my mind (where all my ideas come from), a daydream almost, where, it's the future, and I am happy, and everything is all right. And that's nice. But my experience from the past tells me everything won't be all right, unless I make it all right.

And so I know that lovely vision of the future won't come to pass without a lot of effort and attention.

So maybe there is some juice in that for all of us after all?

We people tend to just hope and believe the world and society and culture will change despite us doing just as we do, in the same way we all believed we were going to be famous for something, just by sitting at homer playing Atari. You feel me, right?

Gandhi said "Be the change you wish to see in the world", and like most things, he was right. We're so lazy. Let's get Orson Welles back to say it for emphasis:

"You're so lazy, people of the earth!"

So let's avoid that situation where we're stuck listening to Def Leppard for ever, and change the record, and do a little work, and grow a little, and watch as everything around us gets so much better, so much sooner.

Anything that just falls in your lap is just worthless anyway...easy come, easy go. If you worked for it and made it happen, it's ridiculously meaningful. Nature is sick like that.

So the next time I'm lying on my bed, dreaming about the future, where everything is nice, someone please remind me to get off my ass and go practice, or save some money instead of spending it on nothing really, so that in the future I'll have some skill, and I won't have starved to death.

Or even better, so I can just lie on my bed and daydream, about the future.

Some say laziness is simply resting before you need to, that it's a form of organisation. And I guess they're right, if by "organisation", they mean gambling.

I'm not the gambling kind, so I think I'll maybe just listen to Gandhi, and be the hange I want to see in the world.

See you all in the future.



This is knifey, from 'the internet'.