In Time We Won't Be Here

I often think about the future and history. They aren't opposites really. The future becomes the past and the past inspires the future. But, in between, what do people in the future think about people in the past? All the things we have written... will anyone read them?

That bugs me. People may or may not read what I write now. Somehow it matters more that someone reads it all in the future. Of course, that means it has to be available to be read in some format. I don't think it will be. I'm not that important or especially brilliant to be preserved for future generations. It all winds down to a popularity contest in the end. Kind of sad. Being popular doesn't make what you say any better or smarter. Likely it gets edited to suit the popular opinion so the popular people keep being popular.

In the end, will anything kept from our time matter? If it is all based on popularity - how bland that will be.

Time will tell - that is such a great phrase. But, in time, we won't be here to talk about it.