Wanting to connect the past and future
Lately, thoughts about writing fiction have been occurring to me. It's not that I think of these thoughts from my own volition. They simply occur. I don't have an idea of a story to write, yet I seem to have a theme or a technique in mind. I don't know that this idea has ever been done before -- I'm guessing it has, but, anyway, the idea seems to keep going through my mind.
Here's what I mean: In this rambling of my mind, there are characters in a book or story, whoever they are, whatever they're doing, leading their lives in the present time in the story, and, yet, every once in a while, I, the author, insert something of the future.
For example, let's say that there's a popular college girl. She has boyfriends falling all over her, so many in love with her, so many proposals of marriage. Then, at some point in the present story, in parentheses, I insert something like this:
Who knew that she would never marry...
That's the idea.
About another character -- I don't even have a clue as to who this character might be --
Who knew he would be the first to die...
About another character --
Who knew that she would fall off the ends of the earth, and no one would ever know what happened to her...
This could apply to real life, of course. I could say about a real friend of mine from college:
Who knew that she would marry the captain of the hockey team and move to Canada?
I could say about another friend -- one of the three of us who hung out together:
Who knew she would be the first of us to die?
And about myself, who lived in such fantastic ignorance, making the same mistakes over and over again -- well, they certainly seemed like far-reaching mistakes -- I could say:
Who knew she would, of all the people in the world, take up Godwriting and...
I am wondering:
Does the present predict the future? Does it really? If so, it seems that the clues are hidden quite well and not predictable at all.
Comments
There is no past. There is no future. There is only NOW!
Oh, Andrea, you are so right!
As Andrea already said time does not exist. and further, who ever I might be now, I suppose when my heart gives the signal that I just have to do or not one thing or another, that that is the divine timing, independently of who I was or seemed to be until that moment.
maybe like heating up water, there comes a time when boiling is inevitable ....
much love.
Berit
CONNECTING THE PAST TO THE PRESENT
Hi Gloria, since last fall I've been visiting "past lives" on earth, and finding it may be a way soul does some healing, some balancing. I see how energy patterns from the past re-play in the present. I've wondered how to write THAT in a story. Just last week I had a waking vision of myself in another lifetime watch my daughter be snatched from my side and murdered - I have every reason to think it happened once, for I went on in that life seeing myself with others whose souls I recognize in this life. It does give one pause to marvel at the complexity of intertwining lives. But how to write it? One would need a ghost writer I think to fashion it properly.
Congratulations on your imminent return to South Africa.