I've Always Believed in Futures
In an average house, on an average street, in and average neighbourhood of an average town. Mr. and Mrs. Past-Present live with their average sized dog named Time. Now Mr. Jimmy Past and Miss. Nancy Present met in College and fell for each other. Literally, they tripped over each other on the stairs one day. Now Nancy liked Jimmy because of his old fashion values and his utter fearlessness when it came to commitment. Jimmy, on the other hand liked Nancy because she was wild and carefree, and every once in a while she would get drunk at a party and kiss her female friends. Now Jimmy, of course, disapproved of this on a biblical and moral level, but in a small room deep deep inside Jimmy's mind he found it strangely fascinating and even exciting. Jimmy and Nancy kept on through failed classes, pub crawls, and associates degrees until finally Jimmy proposed to Nancy in a way that was at once beautifully traditional and severely mundane. Now Nancy was an impulsive girl and seeing as there was to her thinking "no time like the present", she stuffed a stammering Jimmy into the passenger seat of her cherry red MGB and drove 9 hours through the night to Vegas. It was a beautiful ceremony presided over by a former porn star turned priest in gold sequins robes.
Sooner or later Nancy and Jimmy decided it was time to create a little Future of their very own. But neither could quite imagine what the Future would look like. Nancy postulated that the Future would just have to look like her but slightly more futurific. And Jimmy didn't believe that a Future could even exist that would come close to the glories of all those that had come before. Both came to the realisation that in order to embrace this new Future they we're going to have to become students of the future. Cue the mid-life crisis. Nancy began frantically cleaning the house and redecorating both spare rooms into nurseries. One blue, and one pink, just in case. Jimmy however decided to focus all his efforts into what he considered to be the very wave of the Future. Investing. He bought stocks in Gold, he bought stocks in Coal, he bought up the world supply of Tylenol, and half the stocks of Geritol. He maxed out every credit card and took out lines of credit. he re-mortgaged the house in a failed attempt to "get-it".
And in the end when the Future came they saw it wasn't so very different. It was a Future made of equal parts, of both Past and Present. As it opened it's eyes and looked at them and they stared into the Future, they both cried as they were both reborn, in this gift they called a Future.
Sooner or later Nancy and Jimmy decided it was time to create a little Future of their very own. But neither could quite imagine what the Future would look like. Nancy postulated that the Future would just have to look like her but slightly more futurific. And Jimmy didn't believe that a Future could even exist that would come close to the glories of all those that had come before. Both came to the realisation that in order to embrace this new Future they we're going to have to become students of the future. Cue the mid-life crisis. Nancy began frantically cleaning the house and redecorating both spare rooms into nurseries. One blue, and one pink, just in case. Jimmy however decided to focus all his efforts into what he considered to be the very wave of the Future. Investing. He bought stocks in Gold, he bought stocks in Coal, he bought up the world supply of Tylenol, and half the stocks of Geritol. He maxed out every credit card and took out lines of credit. he re-mortgaged the house in a failed attempt to "get-it".
And in the end when the Future came they saw it wasn't so very different. It was a Future made of equal parts, of both Past and Present. As it opened it's eyes and looked at them and they stared into the Future, they both cried as they were both reborn, in this gift they called a Future.
