Choose Now for Ten Years Hence
By Phil on Jan. 11, 2009.
Let us daydream awhile. When it’s ten years from now, what will you be like? What kind of Earth will we have? Will we still have the luxury of dreaming about another ten years down the road? All this depends on how we use the most precious gift that the creator has given us: choice. The possibility of choice, however, also contains the right to give up our choice.
Going on the same path, even when we realize that it is a dead end, is an act of giving up our right to choose and closes down the possibility of future choices. Although we can take this road, we don’t have the inherent right to do so. On the contrary, we have a responsibility to not continue on this dead-end path; the responsibility is not for our descendants but ourselves. Time flows quickly and our future draws ever nearer. To be able to still imagine ten years from now ten years from that, what can we do now? What do we have to do to leave the door open to the future possibilities beyond ten years from now? This is our “homework” as humanity. I call it a civilization shift. A civilization shift would be a first in the history of humankind, although we have heard legends of long-gone civilizations that disappeared because they failed to effect such a shift.
We are still running down the same road as our ancestors, not because we are absolutely sure that this is the right road to be on, but because we have an amorphous and unrealistic expectation that nothing too terrible could happen to us. or that someone somewhere will solve large problems that come our way. Only now are we feeling nervous. We are slowly realizing that the bus we are on does not have a driver. Our scenery from the bus windows is getting bleaker and the speed seems to be picking up. We are realizing that we might crash into a mountain or fall off a cliff at this rate. We realize it will be difficult to stop and change directions. Read more Ilchi Lee’s articles.
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