From the cow, to now, to the non-existent.

         The earliest memory from my past, and I mean the very earliest, was conceived when I was two or three years old. It is apparent that I had the height and knowledge to turn door knobs at that age range because on one occasion I opened the front door of our family home in south Oxnard, and was treated with an eyeful of a large, white, moving object, which with age I realized was a large cow. Even so, it definitely was a very unique event which led to my personal saying, "I remember from the cow and after." Every event in my memory from my past is scaled on my figurative timeline, which of course begins with the cow in my front door step, then continues to memories from my home, school, church, girlfriends, trips, etc, and ends at the end of this sentence.

          The last sentence of the previous paragraph reawakened an acknowledgement to the idea of "the present" I had mentally bookmarked years ago. I named it the Seismograph Effect. The past is represented by the zig-zag lines made by the pen, the white blank area that has not been recorded with lines is representing the future, but the present is only the pen. Each stroke from left to right is "the present." Not the lines being made, the strokes, as in the movements. The pen markings are the past, but the pen is the present. You are currently reading this sentence, but as soon as you see the period at the end of this sentence you will find that its already in the past. "The present" isn't a time frame, it's a recorder, it's a tool, it's the pen. There is no past, present, and future, only past and future.

          No human mind can process the ripples of every decision we make in our daily life: taking a shortcut home, giving a co-worker a ride, laughing at someone's expense, or even looking a certain direction. Every once in a while we are able to see a few results of an action made by us or others but no one can acknowledge all ripples and their effects on people lives or maybe even the landscape of the planet. Every single decision, no matter how insignificant it may seem, sculpts our very future regardless if you are aware of it or not, regardless of third party awareness or not. Excuse my excessive use of this example but simply because you're reading this post something that could have happened, did not or something that wasn't going to take place, does. An example of how an action can change events, can be if a girl doesn't set her alarm, she wakes up late, the bus leaves her, she doesn't get the interview, doesn't get the job where she could have met her husband where they could start a family, so on and so forth.

          To conclude, we can influence an outcome but our future is influenced by every single object and concept in the universe: abiotic, biotic, living, physical, figurative, dead, moving, fixed, ideas, concepts, beliefs, etc. The future of our choice is an outcome of our influence over the influence of the rest the universe. One thing though: unlike the cow at my doorstep, the future doesn't exist yet, it hasn't happened.