"who knows what the future will bring"

Hi!

Thanks to a friend of mines commenting on one of my entries with that topic, I thought to myself "yes! What the future will bring!" with a twinkle of excitement in my eyes! *smiles*

Maybe I'm just being optimistic, but the future brings, whatever we want it to bring.

Okay, I'll elaborate, please read on.

So, one day I stopped and had an "OH!" moment. I had realized I was living in the future a minute after the minute before haha And yet, I didn't even know I was living in the future the minute before, and now that minute that was after the minute before is my present and the next minute that's to come would be my future minute, and then become my present minute leaving my previous minute to be my past minute.

Honestly, it took me all day to shut my head up with that thought. But knowing that had me realize that each second that passes is a part of our life experience, and how we live it, or how we view it, is what our past moment will be.

Of course there are certain forces that are kind of out of our control. Death being one, but suicide is a word that is no stranger to us and some people feel the need to control their own death. But I won't go on to that.

Now, here's my point. We say "I can't control the future", true, you can't control your outer forces, but you can certainly control what you say, do and think in relations to that outer force.

So what about the future? So since my friend wrote this I'm quite happy.

Because we are our future!!

Isn't that exciting?! I know I'm excited.

Now it seems bleak. But it's just like a blank canvas....wait, scratch that, it's like a room. People come in and out of this room, some disregard leaving a mess behind, others have come and tried to clean up only to find that someone else came in and mess it up and they threw their hands up in the air and said "well! This is stupid, I'm not gonna keep cleaning up their mess!!"

So how to deal with this?

Of course we don't want to keep cleaning up everyone's mess right?

Moving away would be a great idea, buttttt we all live on the same planet.

So we have to work together. The more people who are even considering or willing to work together the better.

For the most part I think people make messes because they either don't know it's bothering anyone else, they don't realize that their mess is causing a problem or they just don't care.

Now I don't know if we could even think about changing the one who don't care, but I blame their conditioning lol it's embedded in their head.

Now I will say that I've come to realize that we definitely DO learn from pain. Such as hoarders. There was once a lady, she collected so much stuff and the stuff crumbled on her and she died.

You see. Most people would probably argue that that's such a small situation. It is. But it's very similar. The only difference is the scale of the issue.

She aren't just talking about a room, we are talking about a world. Saying "it's the right thing to do" just will not cut it anyone. It's way to common.

However, I find the reason why some people just won't listen is because it doesn't attract their attention. It doesn't mean anything at this very moment.

I mean think about it, do you really think someone who is only interested in art would be interested in quantum physics? Probably not. However, if you were to tell them that we are all out of trees, we won't be able to produce anymore pencils or paper for you anymore, than what are they to do? They may very well try to find a solution right??

Because some people aren't concerned or affected by what some people consider an issue, they won't care.

However, if something they are interested in is affected, then they will pay attention.

Here's a recent example. During the recession people lost their jobs right. However, take those same people, place them in a job and have them walk pass a homeless person. For the most part, when they had their job, they were to busy to even see that homeless person, let alone truly CARE, even if they knew that person was there, they were too BUSY.

Now fast-forward, that same person who walked by doesn't have a job, and now all he/she can do is to just watch the one's who do have jobs, and wonder how they will find a new one. How they will pay their rent. How they will feed their children.

Do you see a pattern?

When we ignore, we are placed in the situation we weren't pay attention to eventually.

It's like we have these answering machines strapped to ourselves, and every once in a while, we'll get a message and it goes "BEEP", we ignore it (just like I'm sure some people will listen to messages and keep going). Then we get the call again. We ignore it. Then IT shows up. IT says "hey, I've been calling. Now I  must show you"

Being mindful, I'm starting to see, is a very helpful virtue.

As I always say you DON'T have to follow any of this. That's why we have freewill.

But I will say this, we do create our futures. And unless we step up and work together to clean our home, the one we ALL share, the mess will only accumulate. The time to act is now!

We, the one's living now, are the builders for our future generations. Just as the builders before us created the future we have now.

*chuckles* And honestly I will tell you, although in the past I see that people have made a few mistakes, at least they did something. I seriously think this generation is quite lazy. Seriously, since about 1999 I haven't seen anything new or unheard of. No new movements beside gay marriages being legalized in some states and marijuana being legalized in others. Besides that, no major break-through. 

I don't know about you all, but I will certainly try my hand at creating another golden age.

What will you make of your future?

Mon