After All, You Put A Lot Into

After All, You Put A Lot Into Creating A Universe And Everything That Goes With It, And It Seems A Shame To Use It Only Once.

The Future Is An Ever-shifting Maze Of Possibilities Until It Becomes The Present. The Future I Have Shown You Tonight Is Not Yet Fixed. But It Is More Likely To Become So With The Passing Of Every Day Because Nothing Is Being Done To Turn It Aside. If You Would Change It, Do As I Have Told You.

I Want You, As A Reader, To Experience What I Experience, To Let That Other World, That Imaginary World That I Have Created, Tell You Things About The Real World.

I Remember One Winter, When I Was About Five Or Six, I Spent Three Days With Another Boy, Tracking A Bobcat That Had Been Sighted In Another County Fifty Miles Away, But Which I Was Sure Had Come Into Our Neighborhood.

Let Me Tell You Something You Haven't Learned Yet, Something You Learn Only By Living Awhile. As You Get Older, You Find That Life Begins To Wear You Down. Doesn't Matter Who You Are Or What You Do, It Happens. Experience, Time, Events - They All Conspire Against You To Steal Away Your Energy, To Erode Your Confidence, To Make You Question Things You Wouldn't Have Given A Second Thought To When You Were Young. It Happens Gradually, A Chipping Away That You Don't Even Notice At First, And Then One Day It's There. You Wake Up And You Just Don't Have The Fire Anymore." He Smiled.