Some things some of the time

Sometimes, you can just see certain things. I mean in that unclear, uncertain blob of reality that is often the future. Sometimes, when you look through the foggy glass of the present and stare off into the future, you can actually see some of those things coming.

Good, bad, or non-partial - you can see them. But seeing them doesn't make an ounce of difference to what you see...because what time doesn't tell you is that you can't change it. You just have to sit and watch as what you saw comes true.

It is supposed to be this way they tell you, but that doesn't matter. It was meant to... but that doesn't change the course of things. It's better off like... but that doesn't calm the raging sea of emotion, does it?

Seeing things coming is sometimes worse than if they hit you unexpectedly. At least if they hit you out of nowhere, you can't blame yourself. At least you don't have the time to look at the situation over and over and brood on what you could have done if you had just been there at the right time...

But I suppose that is the way time works. It moves forward, whether we do or not.

...Silence I suppose, sometimes, is the best answer. Sometimes, it's the only answer.

Although I must say, I'd wished the future were different than this....

-RK