How the future will work
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Seems kind of funny
to be concerned about “how the future will work”
(as posited in a segment on the BBC just now).
Such thoughts depend on the presumption
that we’ll find out “when we get there”
Only
We won’t, really.
***
You can’t get there from here
So the saying goes
because
being here takes up too much time
all your time, in fact.
***
You can imagine being in the future
Or daydream about it
You can speculate on what it will be like
(like our BBC friends)
you can even formulate plans on what you’ll do
once you get there.
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But you won’t ever get there
no matter how hard you try.
Not only do you have to be here
while you’re thinking about being there;
if you could be there
assuming there really were a “there” to be
when you got there
in there’s place
would be here
You would be here.
***
The only people who are “there”
are the ones who aren’t “here” anymore . .
the dead folks
And they aren’t exactly in the future
are they?
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For those whose thoughts must,
of seeming necessity
face toward the future
or the past
the present may be an inconvenience,
a troublesome suggestion, a reminder,
should it cause ripples on the surface of their awareness at all,
that, like the cambian layer beneath the bark of a tree
where its living tissue, its essence resides,
the layer of consciousness that contains the essence of all things
ourselves most certainly included
resides nowhere but within the present moment
And the past
the future
and the latest news about Khloe Kardashian’s derriere
are mere distractions from that realization
Nothing more.
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So instead of asking how the future will work
Why not instead ask
What we can do NOW that will benefit mankind
in the present
Informed by the realization and always mindful of the fact that
what we do now
has effects whose reach extends far beyond the present moment
effects some of which may not have been intended
in the moment.
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Tim Konrad
15 September 2015
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