A Forthcoming Time

unlike previous posts, I do not have an introduction to this:

A Forthcoming Time

            This post comes at the most unlikeliest time, where ordinary students like me should be preparing themselves for classes. However, I am not ordinary. Since young, I’ve always had this thought that I was special (until I learnt that being ‘special’ isn’t a good thing), that I was unique and that I was a harbinger of change.

Despite all that, I am still a stupid smart person who endeavours for last minute preparations. My enthusiastic attempt in finishing my genre info for Lois Lowry’s The Giver has failed me once again, but considering the fact that the past eight days have been a time of procrastination and simply, a time of reading anything anti-dystopian and anti-Voltaire (for these are my two independent research projects for the next two months), I have not failed.

However, it implies that I still did not do my work. Thus I was doing some research about The Giver and it landed me in YouTube. This was a life saver at first, as it gave me cool insights about the book and its dystopian nature, but it slowly crept up to me to my initial passion in life (which is writing and history).

Being in a world where information is “at your fingertips”, people have taken for granted the tools they have at their hands. While finding out the definition of “Psychobabble” is literally a five second Google search of ‘define: psychobabble’ (try it out if you don’t believe me), the true pleasures in life lies in books. Books are the essence of life; books are the irrevocable part of being a human; books are an insight into the future.

So what?

Individuals out there might disagree with me on my last definition of books, but this is my argument. Fictional books, in particular, dystopian books are futuristic. They offer us an outlook into what society might be like in the future. While popular television series like Star Trek gives us a sophisticated view of the future as well, sci-fi is arguably less persuasive and less appealing to the Joneses. I am not stating that Star Trek was bad; in fact, the effects of Star Trek were so revolutionary that it gave us our first mobile phones (from Motorola) and the concept of sliding doors.  

Dystopian books, specifically, The Giver has something more to offer than just a perspective of a forthcoming time. And this, will be reserved for a forthcoming time. :)

Three Cheers for my first cliffhanger, anyone? :D