10/21/10 Forward

     The human race races forward. Forward and never back. We wish to go back, to change, to re-experience, re-analyze, redo. Forward we go. Faster than we know it, the days are long but the life is short. We are all heading in the same direction, no matter what path we take we are all heading to the same destination. The unavoidable end. The end is different for everyone but the result is the same. Sometimes it comes painfully early, or dreadfully late. The end doesn't scare me, its when and how that does. No time is the right time but the time that is meant for us.
    Forward is our states' motto. If we are going forward why is our nation stuck it the past. People's minds are stuck in the days of sexism, racism, and homophobic thoughts. Wake up and move with the times. 2010 is the future, 2010 is forward, the time of flying cars and holograms, or at least 3D TVs. We are in the time that people always looked ahead to, the Jettisons were a generations glimpse into our time. We are still stuck. We, of 2010 are a disappointment, a disgrace to the future. The future that everyone of us pictures is going to be like when we are 90 years old. Instead we rely on the next generation, though the next generation isn't moving forward, getting smarter, its moving backward with the help of what we created.
     Forward is like an unstoppable train. We run to catch up, to make it slow down just for a moment. Enough time to catch our breath. No, we are being dragged along with the unstoppable force of time. Hours of it gets forgotten, lost forever; then a moment, just a moment may last as long as you do, a moment that can run with you and let you free. A moment that is never lost but always rediscovered, retrieved, going back.

Looking up at Madison State Capitol dome. Larger than the White House.