Deb and I were looking for a blank video tape last night, and happened to find one with some home movie footage from 2005. We watched Ian, then 3 1/2, looking for Easter eggs and playing in the rain. It has occurred to me before, but was driven home last night, that if I knew then what I know now, I would be heartbroken.
Our temporal-ness is a mercy. I was suddenly glad that I had almost seven years of getting to be with my son before we found out that he had a DIPG. If we lived our lives with full knowledge of what was to come…every blessing, every heartbreak…then I don’t think we would be able to truly live in the “now.”
#1 by Pablo on October 1st, 2008
Tom,
Clairvoyance/precognition would be one of the biggest curses with which a person could be afflicted. That and telepathy.
I agree with you. It would be too hard to live a temporal life with those “gifts”.