Do you remember my blog entry of the 30th September last year? It was about a new SF-based TV show called "FlashForward". It told the story of a mysterious event causing nearly everyone on the planet to simultaneously black out for 137 seconds, during which people see what appear to be visions of their lives approximately six months in the future — a global “flashforward”. Everyone got to see what they would be doing on 29th April 2010. Which is today!
In the 'real world', we don't have the advantage of such hindsight, and therefore many unexpected things have happened in everyone's lives since September 2009. Examples include the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti this past January; the air traffic disruption from volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland in April! To a lesser extent, even 'FlashForward' itself was affected - in December 2009, ABC decided to put the show on hold for a month or two, reportedly to allow the network to air the 2010 Winter Olympics without further interruption. Life can be so unpredictable...
The show has, however, explored a variety of issues concerning the future, and in particular the concepts of fate and destiny. It's revealed that the 'future' that the characters saw presented to them as a 'fait accompli' can in fact be changed.
It's the same with us. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. It's up to each to us to decide how to live each day. We can each decide what we do - where we go - who we will serve...
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