Everything About You

I looked again ten years ahead. Again I saw the same family that I had before, and the same happiness that I had when I saw it the first time I had again. I spent more time watching then last time. I nearly was late to work because of the spell.

I believe I’ve started to piece the reasons for some future events changing and others not. If it is observed it can change, otherwise it doesn’t. It’s like knowing exactly what something is before seeing it, and after seeing it you don’t know what it will be. It’s like the opposite of observation.

This makes me wonder as to what happens if every unicorn could do this spell, what would happen? Would the timeline of this entire world shift and warp whenever somepony decided to witness the future? Am I modifying the future in ways I don’t even know?

In a way what if time isn’t even a part of the world that we know? What if we made time up to make sense of a world that is even more odd then what we could imagine?

I decided to pursue the name Winter in the same area of the library that I discovered her future spell in. There was nothing related to this spell, nor was there any spell with the name Winter on it with the same hoofwriting as the one that I’m researching.

It’s as if Winter was made up, a pseudonym perhaps? I haven’t connected the hoofwriting to any other common authors in the collection, so she wasn’t well known. To be honest the idea that Winter is a she is also up in the air now, but I will still identify Winter as female.

This project has taken more time then what was  originally planned. I have an unlimited time for any research project, so long as it gives results. I hope for both my job and my sanity, that this makes sense in the end.

I’ve also started to watch myself ten years in the future at night as well. It’s a mixture of pleasure and discomfort at the same time, the comfort coming from knowing a happy future, and the discomfort knowing that at any time I may make a mistake and change it all.

So far though my life in the future is the same, at least in the few times I’ve watched it. I admit I’ve spent close to the whole evening today watching the future. I try to tell myself that I will break it if I watch too much of it, or the wrong time, but I don’t want to stop.