Hindsight

Our thoughts have two directions: backward and forward. We're either looking behind us or looking ahead of us. Even when we assume we're thinking about the current moment, the moment we're thinking about already happened and is now in the past by the time we're thinking about it, even if by only a couple nanoseconds. Deep, I know.

Additionally, these backward and forward thoughts can be broken down into two sub-directions: if we're looking ahead, we're either planning or worrying; conversely, if we're looking behind, we're either reflecting or regretting.

There's nothing really comical about looking ahead. Foresight hasn't occurred yet, so there's nothing to laugh about or shake your ahead in disgrace over. Hindsight, however, provides all the entertainment your mind can handle.

Here is what's so hilarious about hindsight: Whatever you're doing now, whatever you're wearing now, whatever you're saying now, whatever you're listening to now... it's all going to be humorous or just plain embarrassing somewhere down the road when looking back at this moment (well, that moment a couple nanoseconds ago) –- most likely embarrassing. One day I'll look back at my "Takes on Life" and my checkered, button-down shirt and my expressions I've subconsciously extracted from various media in pop culture and my headphones’ audio emissions, and I'll think, "Claude, what was going on in your head, buddy?"

See, I already know this. I know that what I'm doing with myself everyday will be laughable in the foreseeable future. Around the clock, I'm sporting hairstyles and picking hobbies and parading idiosyncrasies that I'll only be able to recall and discuss with a self-deprecating chuckle, despite how seriously I do these things right now. All that we consider "cool" now will inevitably be "uncool" upon some future regard. That goes for you, too. We're writing our own comedy, if I may momentarily be profound. Unfortunately, by the time we've aged enough to have a full life of funnies and bloopers upon which to both reflect and regret, our brains are too old to remember half of them.

But it's all about living in the moment. The one that happened a couple nanoseconds ago. And that one. And that one. And that one.