The Future is Here! Part 2: Real Imaginations

I'm currently in my final year of High School, which means I have to decide what I'm going to do with my life.  It's not imagining any more. It's choosing which one of my imaginations is going to become true. I think that's the reason why the future frightens me.

At the beginning of this year I was so sick of going to school. I wanted to go away, travel... *starts singing* discover worlds so far and near! (Sorry, I just had to make the Starkid reference ;)) I wanted to do anything but go to school, and I wasn't even thinking of studying. Now, I still want to travel and discover worlds, but I'm not so sure any more about the not-studying part. Actually, I'm not sure about anything right now.

There are a few things on my list that I'd like to do, but I can't decide which I'm going to choose. (*sings* I can't decide whether you should live or die (Okay, I don't know what just happened, it's getting too late for my brain to work properly)) I've already reduced the list to two things (Well, sort of);

 - I work for a year, starting with three or four months on a horse farm in Ireland. (It took me quite some time to choose this. I started with the ideas of backpacking in Australia and working with wildlife in Africa, but I had to scrap those because of reasons (most important one; money)). I come back in December, spending the holidays with my family before starting a job in a bigger city than Gouda. Maybe in a cinema or a bookshop or something like that.
- I start studying either Film-making (either screen-writing or directing), Writing or Audiovisual Media.

I'm going to try to go to the open days of the AHK (Film-making), the HKU (Audiovisual Media) and ArtEZ (writing), but they're all on Saturdays so I'll have to organize it with work. If I really like one of the studies and decide I'd like to do it, I think I'm just gonna try to get in. The procedures to get in are very hard, so the chance that I won't get in is very big. If I don't get in, I just go to Ireland. 

I still like my imagination of the future I talked about in The Future is Here! and it can still become real, but maybe in a different way. Maybe I'll write a screenplay instead of a book, or I'll make documentaries about the trips I make in between writing. I'm just gonna have to figure out which imagination I like best.

But first I'm going back to the world inside my head. Goodnight! 

Oh, one more question before I go: Which one of your imaginations did you choose or are you still imagining? 

Real or not real?

'It's like a ghost, but that's not possible because ghosts do not exist." A little quote I got out of one of my schoolbooks, and because that sentence was way more interesting than the rest I started to think about it. I mean, if you've never seen a ghost, how do you know it doesn't exist? If you think like that you just assume they don't exist. Just because there's no evidence. But do you need evidence for everything you believe?


I think I've said it at some point before, but I don't believe in God, or Allah, or Buddha or any other god. I'm an absolute atheist, but that doesn't mean God doesn't exist. There are so many religious people in the world (I think I've read somewhere that 3/4 of the world population is religious) and they all believe in something/someone without having any physical proof. People also believe in angels, the afterlife, aliens, magic, unicorns without having any proof. Do they exist? We don't know, but that doesn't mean you're not allowed to believe in their existence. 


The thing is, if there's no evidence, you can neither deny nor proof its existence, so why would we immediately assume that it doesn't exist?


If you think of it, those things actually do exist. Somehow we've thought of those things, so they exist in stories, in our heads. Or as Dumbledore said it: "Of course it is happening inside your head, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"


I believe that the things you want to exist do exist, even though they might only exist in the minds of the people who believe that exact same thing. Vague? Maybe it is, but I guess that's what believing is like. 


Any thoughts on the subject?

I'm Actually a Character from a Book

"What if books/movies/tv-shows are just cover ups of things that really happened?" 

This was a thought I had a little while ago. I kinda forgot about it, but I just finished watching the Supernatural episode The Monster at the End of This Book (s04e18), in which Sam and Dean find books about their life story and it made me think about it again. I mean, it's not possible (or is it?) but it's funny to think about it. Try imagining what it would be like when you'd discover that you're actually a character from a book or when you'd suddenly run into your favourite fictional character. How would you react when that character introduces himself/herself? And how would that character react when you tell him/her you know about him/her because you've read about him/her or because you've seen his/her movie/show?


I kind of tried to write down how I'd react when I'd meet one of my favourite fictional characters: The Doctor. Beware, it's weird.


Me: *walks around in town, suddenly bumps into a guy with a tweed jacket and a bow tie* Woops, sorry. Wow, are you Matt Smith?
11: Uh, no. I'm the Doctor.
Me: Yeah right. Do you've got a blue box that's really bigger on the inside?
11: How do you know that?
Me: I watch tv.
11: Tv? Have I been on the news again? Did I look good?
Me: Uh, well, there's a whole show about you.
11: Really? They do make me look good I hope.
Me: So what? You're real? You're really real?
11: I think...
Me: Can I see the TARDIS and  come with you? Please?
11: I don't think that's a good idea. Don't you have school tomorrow?
Me: Yeah, but that doesn't matter because you've got a time machine. 
11: *thinks about it* Very well *leads me to the TARDIS, opens it* After you.
Me: *steps inside* Oh, cool, it's even better than on tv.
11: Of course it is! Now, where'd you wanna go?


Okay, wow, that was weird. It was so much cooler in my head.


Anyway, this is what my mind sometimes does. Mostly when I get tired and can't think logical any more, like, right now.... I think it would be a good idea to hit the sack before things get even worse. But I won't go without leaving you with a question: who would you like to meet and how would that meeting go?


Goodnight and till next time!

The Future is Here!

Well, not really, because if you think of it, the future is never here, because it's always in, well, the future.


I've been thinking a lot about the future lately. I don't know why. I'm just thinking a lot lately. I'm growing up (well, not really, I'm just 17), next year I'm gonna have to decide what I'm gonna do after school and really, I have no bloody idea - maybe I'm gonna travel for a year, or gonna do some volunteer work in some place, or I'm gonna go to college to study Journalism or Psychology or maybe I'll change my mind in the next few months and am I going to do something totally different. Who knows, right?


Sometimes the future frightens me. I don't know why. (I also don't know why I'm saying "I don't know why" a lot.) Maybe because the future is just one creepy thing because you never know for sure what's going to happen. But sometimes I like imagining about the future. After some chats with Chantal, I came to the conclusion I'm probably going to be a writer who lives in an old estate together with a dog (either a German Shepherd or a Husky or another big and active breed), and when I'll have published another book I'll  take my car (which is probably going to be an old car, like an old big dusty jeep (or a Chevy Impala ;)), or a Mini Cooper Cabrio or something) and travel for a few months, and when I'll come back I'll start writing the next book. And then some day I'll meet a nice guy who can actually tolerate my craziness and we'll marry and start a family. *sighs* Sounds like fun.


So, what do you think of the future? Can you imagine yourself having a family, or having a great job, or something else?

Note: You've probably noticed that 1) this is the first post on this blog after a very long time and 2) this is written a bit different than my older posts. Well, time makes you bolder, children get older, and I'm getting older too. (Yes, Landslide lyrics :P) Anyway, I felt like writing a 'real' blog post again.

I'm currently writing a lot (check out two of my stories,  Magical Mischief and Time Task) and well, school is also a big priority. I am planning to post some more on here, so check it out from time to time (or not). You can also leave a comment/message/something else, I'd love to hear from you!