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The future and my future in it
by space at 05:04 PM on June 02, 2002
Two names before the president of the school board called my youngest brother across the stage, my mom noticed that her camera had only one picture left. She took a quick shot of the stage, but instead of rewinding the film, the camera emitted a terrible grinding noise. She opened the back, letting light in on all the pictures of the ceremony so far, as well as those of Baccalaureate and the Honors presentation. She pulled the unwound roll from the camera, put a new one in, and got the same terrible grinding noise. Everyone around us turned to see what was going on. She passed it to my dad, who took out a pocket knife and began prying at various parts of the camera's anatomy, trying to make it stop, as my mom told him repeatedly that she thought it was broken.
As my brother crossed the stage and received his high school diploma, I considered that while the students in robes on the gymnasium floor might be THE future, my parents are MY future; it's inevitable that I'll become some approximation of them. I'll grow to be thoughtless, inattentive, overweight, broke, and set in my ways. That's assuming, of course, that I'm not those things already. But I'll also be loving, gentle, considerate and generous. And I'll survive everything thrown at me, with something very much like grace.
I'll also be considerably shorter. And the number of children I have will be the exact number of times I have sex.
Grim place, the future.
comments (7)
Watching one's parents fumbling with technology (even the decade's old kind) really is agonizing and is often enough to make one wonder if one were adopted or at least switched at birth.
by zuchris at June 3, 2002 3:11 PM
If you can see the future then you can change it.
by MrBlank at June 4, 2002 12:04 AM
If you can see the future you CAN'T change it, philisophically speaking.
by mg at June 4, 2002 12:22 AM
i thought you were going to be living in switzerland with all of your wives.
by bazima at June 4, 2002 12:42 AM
As I sat and drew bugs yesterday, I also observed my daughter chatting on the Internet in a so-called Chat Room - she was simultaneously talking to a friend on her Cell Phone and printing out some Latin homework she'd downloaded from a Web Site.
And I thought, future-schmuture, that's a lot of bugs.
by miguel at June 4, 2002 4:51 AM
ahh the future. QUICK! Everyone close their eyes and just jump! It IS more fun that way. :-)
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