What We Become!

WHO SAYS FORTUNE-TELLING?


> Just recently I started wondering what really tells
> what a child would become in the future.I wondered if
> it had to do with the size or the physical dimensions
> of the growing child.I wondered if it had to do with
> some kind of flair,or passion or interests or some
> biological chemicals, or some blankety-blank ancestors
> or some parental decisions and prejudices.Then I
> couldn't help wondering if it had to do with God or
> the gods which is a euphemistic way of saying demons.
> I was not surprised to find that people had thought
> about this, for that explains why folks would look at
> a fine child like Moses and say no,we ain't giving him
> up to be killed.And I won't divulge they didn't see
> his criminal tendencies, that he'd one day rub
> someone out.Fullstop.

> Sure you can identify with the fact that folks would
> look at an argumentative child and tag him a future
> lawyer or the one good in Math they would make out to
> be a future Accountant.No, they don't say
> mathematician because few people know what jobs
> mathematicians can hold.They reckon people don't feed
> their families by going around solving math problems.
> Most people now know it doesn't work that way, at
> least not always. Because if it does, then all the
> girls with good looks would make models,meaning we'd
> have more models than women.Now,I haven't met a person
> yet who doesn't know how to argue,just that you've not
> come to disagree with what he thinks he knows
> everything about.There is more to being a lawyer than
> arguing,that is.

> I can't remember now what traits you identify a
> future medic with.Do they show much interest in caring
> for their sick relatives? Of course that would mean
> all women would become doctors.Or do they handle the
> needle well? No,that's out because no sane mom lets
> her kid play with the syringe.Do they just say they
> love to save people's lives?Because that's what they
> think doctors do, save people's lives.Does that
> explain why some doctors get sick of the whole thing
> when it dawns on them they can't on their own save a
> life? Oh, maybe it's the scrawl,yes,kids scrawl much
> like doctors do when they want to put down some
> prescription...or anything.

> A thrift collector just passed by where I'm sitted
> writng and she has just set me wondering whether
> she(as a child)kept her mom's change left in her purse
> only to surprise her at month end.And do you know rich
> families can't produce a professional chef since their
> kids hardly get to the kitchen to see if Mom puts salt
> in a cup of tea.

> Maybe welders started practising to fix their mom's
> broken spoons with their gummy saliva when they were
> kids.And shouldn't we have more artists than we can
> count since almost every child set out to draw
> something(whether they make it at the end is another
> thing)whenever he comes across a pencil? Now what do
> teeny-weeny builders of sandcastles have in common
> with architects?

> Enough!
> I think it's enough so I'll have time to point that
> we don't follow through with this fortune-telling.No
> one dares to tell that a kid that does good shoe
> polishing, like my wee cousin,would become a
> Shoeblack,at least not when the kid's parents are
> around.Kids that fix their bicycle tyres and tubes are
> never told they'd one day make veritable
> vulcanizers.And we insist these jobs are ok in
> themselves, just that they are not for our own
> kids,but for those of Mrs.What's-her-name.
> No,you all got me wrong.I didn't say you can't tell
> such things by the signs you see,only that there is
> more to what we become than what instincts we show as
> children,see? I remember when I was more a kid than I
> am now,(Mom says I'll still be her kid even when I get
> married and have my own kids)I was so good at drawing
> every one said I'd make a good artist.The last time I
> wanted to draw the photo of my elder sister hoping
> to give it to her as a present,I ended up with a young
> Chinese lady which means I still draw well,ok? And
> because I argue pretty well,I wass to become an
> unbeatable lawyer,and I'm not giving that one up like
> I did footballing,table-tennis playing,etc,etc.Even if
> it means reading law in my next life. Serious!
> Few years ago,I got it into my head that I can
> write well,but whenever I get about it what do you get but
> sheer repetitions,etc,etc.You see?

> H'm,maybe after all these you are asking,"What's
> your point?" Well, I'm not sure I have a point.My
> guess is that a lot of factors influence what on earth
> we become.Like the biological chemicals or genes,like
> our physique,like the ancestors,like our passions and
> interests,like our flairs,our parents,the society,our
> circumstances,like God,like the gods....My guess is
> that there is no end to what a man can become,no
> limit.

> My guess is that for some of us who have faith,ours'
> is a quite different case.John(not John Bull)in one of
> his epistles said that it has not yet been made known
> what we shall be.Only that when He appears,we shall be
like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
Of course this is impossible...yes,with man!

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