"We're sending you back...to the future!"

So, I'm working over the break. It's really boring. Right now I am looking over huge reports looking for specific dates and highlighting them. I want to take my eyes out with a staple remover.
But while I sit here and do nothing, it gives me time to simply think. Just think. I really like doing that, and I know it sounds weird, but just reflecting on life and stuff can be strangely satisfying.
Well what I have been thinking about lately, quite simply, is the future. I have almost gotten hooked ont he new CBS show How I Met Your Mother, which I talked about below. That, and I sent an email to myself that I will recieve in two years, just kind of talking about everything going on right now.
And so in thinking about the future, I asked myself these questions. Do I really want to know what my life will be like in 10 years? If I did, wouldn't I just be bound for disappointment? Do the little things we do now really add up to something in the future?
I think the future intrigues people so much because everyone wants to be able to justify the things they are having to go through right now. We want to know that the struggles we deal with in life will eventually lead us to a better place.
On HIMYM last night, (and yes, I know it is a cheesy sitcom, deal with it) the main character, the dad in the future who is telling his kids the story, has a rough New Years Eve. Tnings didn't go his way with the girl he was after. But he says "Don't feel sorry for me, it was all important, all of it was leading somewhere. And all of a suddden it was 2006, and 2006 was a really big one."
Thats the attitude I want to have when things don't go my way. Its all leading somewhere, its all shaping things for later. None of the things we do are meaningless, they are all little pieces of this giant puzzle that can't be seen. Even lazy, pointless afternoons in college are building towards something big. Through all kinds of expereices we learn what kind of people we are, and what people we will want to be with later on. And I'm kind of gald I can't see it yet. I want to be suprised, awed, and overjoyed when I see where I am in 20 years.
So never think that it doesn't matter, because it will, even if you never know it.

Hope that was deep and reflective enough for you. Soon you will be returned to your collection of useless pop culture, and semi-funny personal anecdotes.