"If You Could Foresee Your Future Absolutely, You Would Have No Future"

This is part of a line that I heard in a movie called Payday, while I was watching T.V. today.  The entire line went something like; "If you could foresee your future absolutely, you would have no future.  All mystery and hope would be gone."  I have to agree with that.  It isn't something that I have spent a lot of time thinking about prior to today.  I am so glad that I havn't been able to foresee my future and still can't.  There are so many things that I would have given up on, had I known the inevitable outcome, and in doing so I would lost a lost deal.  Perhaps I could have prevented a great deal of hurt and pain, but isn't that what teaches us life's most important lessons.  I am reminded of a a piece of prose called "In The valleys We Grow".  When we feel we are on top of the world we don't learn a great deal, we don't have to, hell, we are on top of the world, why learn anything.  But when we are in the valleys, when we fall or are pushed off the mountain, then we have to learn, then we have to find or develop resourses that we need to survive.  Think for a minute, we have all been there. There is also a song by Garth Brooks, I don't know all the words but I remember the line "And now I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go, I might have missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the dance".  To me the dance is life.  Sometimes we get second chances, sometimes we don't, consider yourself extremely lucky if you do and this time enjoy the dance (your life).

Afternoon Thoughts

Sunday, March 13th, 2011.............5:46p,m.