Futures

I think there are many good reasons why we shouldn't know the future, the very least of them is the cosmic confusion that would be caused by our interference and foremost for me is that we wouldn't want to go there. I am pretty sure I wouldn't - if someone had told me what I would go through, the paths that life would take me down and the things I would feel and experience I would not want to take that path offered to me. I would surely vote for the easy and pain free experience, can I be sure that I would still choose the narrow and rocky path though few find it? And yet think what I would have missed out on; think of the lessons I would never have learned if I had been given the choice whether to take this path or not, the people I would have missed out on knowing and loving. It is one of the sadnesses of a tangled life that the times of hardship and suffering are the ones in which we learn the most of ourselves, others and the foundations of our life and life itself and its Creator and our hearts, courageous or cowardly. So although the future can look an empty and bleak place with no landscape to speak of or recognise right now, don't be peturbed, you or I, but know that it is better not to know and to take one more step along the road to encounter the next adventure.