Choices

We decide where we go and what we do in life.

 

We choose whether we lose
our days in TV soaps and game shows or determine to achieve more by our lives.

 

We
decide whether life is an existence or an achievement, whether we leave a memory
or a mark on our generation.

 

Bryn Jones

Today, Dear Day, I'm Going to Live You

Dear day,



It was tough yesterday. Tough to live. Hard to breathe.



But you’re a new day.



You’re ahead of me.



And I’m going to live you.



I’m going to squeeze the life out of you today, dear day.



I’m going to care.



And I’m going to laugh.



Give.



Smile.



Stand up when I fall down.



Walk.... Run.



Breathe the air.



I’m going to appreciate the simple today. And lose myself in
something pleasurable.



I’m going to listen. To God. And to my friends.



Did I say I’d stand up if I fall down?



Oh yes.



Not only that. I’ll laugh.



Laugh at the trivialness of what used to upset me.



Today, dear day, I’m going to live you.



Poem based on the 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings by Kate Bratskier

The World in 50 Years

Isaac Asimov was a science fiction writer and fifty years
ago in the New York Times he predicted what 2014 would look like. At the time
he was living with inventions like eight-track tapes as being cutting edge and
with no sign of personal computers and the like, so that helps us understand
how far seeing he was. How did he do?

1.      
Coloured glass that can change colour to suit
the mood and rooms that can change colour at the touch of a button.

-         
Correct. Not common in homes yet, but the
technology exists. Last year Mercedes introduced sun panels that darken in response
to the extent of sunlight, already common with sunglasses of course.

2.      
Lab grown meat to cope with the food crisis.

-         
Correct. Lab grown burgers were produced for the
first time last year.

3.      
Self-driving cars.

-         
Correct. On the way to being reality. Current
cars already  have the technology to park, break  if too close to other vehicles
and drive at constant speeds. Automatically driven  cars exist and are being
developed.

4.      
Sight and sound communications. You will see as
well as hear  the person you are calling.

-         
Correct. Skype.

5.      
Documents, photographs and books will be on
screens. And people will be able to watch screens in 3D.

-         
Correct. Ipads, kindles and tablets. And 3D
cinema.

6.      
Robots acting like humans will not be common,
but they will exist.

-         
Spot on. They are expensive but have been
invented.

7.      
Automeals and automatic coffee will be possible.

-         
Correct. The microwave and coffee machines.

8.      
Machine tending will be on the school syllabus.

-         
Call it computer studies and he’s correct. He thought
computer languages would be taught as well, but we’re not there yet.

9.      
Large scale Solar Power Stations

-         
On the way. Solar power in the home is more and
more common.

10.  
Unmanned Mars landings and planned human
landings.

-         
Spot on.

11.  
Large underground and underwater housing
projects.

-         
Oops. Not yet anyway.

12.  
Enforced leisure with less jobs and robots and
computers doing more.

-         
Not yet but the signs are there.

Bear in mind the world as it was in 1964- the first lung
transplant was recorded, the Rolling Stones were on their first tour and the
Ford Zephyr and Morris Oxford were the cars of choice. Pretty accurate
predictions bearing in mind the world he lived in.

Anyone want to have a go at the world in 2064?!