16. Someone builds and optical portal that allows you to see a vision of your own life in the future (it’s essentially a crystal ball that shows a randomly selected image of what your life will be like in twenty years). You can only see into this portal for thirty seconds. When you finally peer into the crystal, you see yourself in a living room, two decades older than you are today. You are watching a Canadian football game, and you are extremely happy. You are wearing a CFL jersey. Your chair is surrounded by books and magazines that promote the Canadian Football League, and there are CFL pennants covering your walls. You are alone in the room, but you are gleefully muttering about historical moments in Canadian football history. It becomes clear that—for some unknown reason—you have become obsessed with Canadian football. And this future is static and absolute; no matter what you do, this future will happen. The optical portal is never wrong. This destiny cannot be changed.
The next day, you are flipping through television channels and randomly come across a pre-season CFL game between the Toronto Argonauts and the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Knowing your inevitable future, do you now watch it?
16. I probably wouldn't look into the crystal ball because 1) its probably a scam anyway and 2) it probably costs a good chunk of money. But I do. I wouldn't want to watch my future anyway, it'd ruin it for me and make questions like this hard. I probably would. If I love CFL so much, might as well get into it as soon as possible, why waste time knowing my inevitable future and seeing how happy I was there regardless of the circumstances? Even if I was unhappy, its still my future. I could've been washing the deck of the Flying Dutchman for Captain Davy Jones but it still wouldn't stop me from jumping into that game of Liar's Dice and risking my entire eternity for my son (I don't even like that movie, but I've seen it twice).
When you look at the future, you are changing everything. Even taking the slightest glimpse into the future would change your entire life. You say "inevitable" but really, it's quite drastically unstable. Since you've looked into your Canadian self, you are most likely to either: Watch Canadian things, or avoid it completely. Personally, I'd probably watch it, I mean, the world needs more psychologically insane Canadian hockey fans. Besides, I looked happy enough, eh?
ReplyDeleteThe world DOES need more psychologically insane Canadian hockey fans.
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