The Future

Gun’s Quote-of-the-Week:

“It means your future hasn’t been written yet. No one’s has. Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one.”
-Emmett L. “Doc” Brown

Sorry for not writing last week. Things were busy and I ran out of time.

Time. Do we talk about anything else more than time?

When we are at work, everything is about time. We set deadlines, meet schedules, project delivery dates, observe holidays and set what we do by when it needs to be done.

Anniversary dates, birthdays, holidays… we always seem to be planning towards or reflecting back on these days.

Our anxieties and our fears rarely ever focus on the now and present but rather on what will be at some time in the future. Our pain our suffering and our traumas never seem to be about what happened that day, but on some event in the past that we can’t change. It may have been years ago, but these feelings were set based upon what happened to us in a past we cannot change, and our anxieties today are felt based upon on a future we cannot predict.

Yet, we all have the exact same amount. 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week and 52 weeks in a year. 8,760 hours from now you will be back at the exact same time on the exact same day, just like everyone else, and just like everyone else, you will have no more and no less. You can’t change it.

I must admit, I think God was pretty smart not to allow us to change time when He spun the universe in to existence. Part of me is pained to say that; There are plenty of things I would change in my past if I could. Another part of me, though, recognizes that I never would have done half of the things I did if I knew what I would have to go through.

If I knew what would happen to me at Rolla, I never would have gone to Rolla. If I didn’t do that, however, I wouldn’t have the friends I have today. If I knew what would happen to me in my first two jobs after college, I might have passed. Yet, if I did that, my career wouldn’t have started here, I would have lived away from my family and never started helping out with the Holy Trinity Lifeteen youth group. (To say nothing of the fact that I learned a tremendous amount of priceless knowledge which helped me get the job I have today) If I knew what would happen to me before starting Depression treatment, I wouldn’t have started. It has been a tough, long road that has brought incredible healing but only by going through hell and back to get there. If I knew that the government was going to shut down my pilot training because of a medication, I would have saved $5,000. Yet, I cannot deny the joy I did get to experience the short-lived time I had in the sky.

Yeah, God must have known what he was doing when He decided that we shouldn’t be allowed to see our future or delete our past. Our futures are best made not knowing the outcome. We are stronger, wiser and probably even happier for not knowing. As for the past? That’s a little tougher. While it’s probably best to make sure we are making good decisions for our future so that when the future becomes the past there are no regrets, some elements are beyond our control.

Do you feel like you are in the middle of something you never would have started if you knew what would happen? Keep going. Your future hasn’t been written yet. No one’s has.

...and that’s why it’s a Gun’s Quote!!