YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR FUTURE, NOT YOUR PAST

YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR FUTURE, NOT YOUR PAST

It’s high time you stopped looking back. The past is full of issues, which seem to be cropping up if you fail to move on. Focus rather on where you can make a difference. It’s the Present and the Future, never the Past. Living in the past may be tempting, even irresistible, but what really matters is Today, which is the first day of the rest of your life. If you feel you have enough time to look back at all, by all means concentrate on dear memories:

My left hand remembers

The feel of your right hand;

Now that we’re apart, I remember that warmth

I’ll never forget it

(‘Dear Memories’ - Tomiko Van)

This is a great time to be alive (Martin Luther King), because today, the opportunities in technology, biotechnology, robotics, bionics (rebuilding the human body) and communication seem endless. Mankind may be at the beginning of another incredible revolution. Our lives will be transformed, again. Don’t be discouraged by the confusing economic and political crosscurrents, because there’s nothing new under the sun. These too will pass, so don’t despair. You will survive and grow stronger, just like your forefathers before you. To become part of such an exciting future should be foremost in your mind. Don’t let the present reality ever stand in the way of the dream you think you deserve. Remember, you are unique. There really is no one like you in the whole wide world! Who knows, what life has in store for you, over time. Patience, like the penguin, and a positive mental attitude, are all that’s required to stay afloat.

What about being beamed from one location to another by teleportation? O.K., not around the corner yet, but technological developments are accelerating. The current generation probably never heard of VCR, which rapidly became obsolete, even before it really took off. Could we one day transform the brain into a supercomputer? Could we one day become ‘superhuman’, as we perceive wavelengths of light, frequencies of sounds and other types of energy, which had hitherto been considered beyond the reach of human beings?

So, this promises to become a ‘hot’ party. Be there or be square!

RICK SCHMULL

August 10th, 2014

WESTCLIFF-On-SEA, Essex, U.K.