Prophet on a Subway Wall

Random thoughts, New Year’s Eve, 2009.

Today is said to be “the last day of this decade”. But I can hardly feel anything, just like I did ten years ago. If not for the “Twenty First Century” that people have been massively talked about and dreamed about, I would have stayed at home and doing some irrelevant things. But still, I did not do any “relevant” things, either.

With things progressing, it becomes more clear that I wouldn’t be doing any “relevant” things again. People are already summarizing this past embarrassing decade, and attach it with tags like “worst”; and messages of regret and sadness are flying around in Facebook. Maybe I should as well take a close look back.

But before I do, and everybody does, we should all know that it is easy to look back and comment on things that happened in the past. You are the prophet that never fails when you look back, and things like “I should have bought Citibank’s stock last year” are totally irrelevant.

So if we look back at the prediction and reality, we can feel the power of time: Vince Carter was predicted to be the “Player of the Next Decade” back in 1999, but things shook up different than most people thought.

While we are aware of all these, let’s take some time and write our wishes and prediction on a wall, on a paper and see what really happens.