What's around the corner

Those close to me know that I have always walked through life with a kind of awareness of what's to come, a sense of what's around the next corner. While this may sound almost like seeing the future let me assure you it is not! Looking into the future, for those that are able, is an entirely different thing and involves immense focus and concentration. What I am talking about is a kind of ever present awareness of what's around you and what's to come that occurs in what I call 'pings' on the mental radar. A small gentle pop of knowledge about how certain things currently going on in your life are likely to play out just down the path a little ways. While this certainly allows one to stroll along their path in life with a kind of casualness, lends a sense that the person is never caught off guard, seems to take almost everything in stride no matter how bleak things might be it also comes with a significant responsibility.

Even without actually "knowing" the future, having a clear sense of what is likely to come care must be taken in what you divulge to those around you. Telling someone something not only can, and often does, alter the outcome that was going to be it can also make things turn very sour. It's almost like being told a secret that absolutely cannot tell anyone about no matter what. Even if that secret is that something unpleasant, something bad, something even truly terrible is going to happen you cannot attempt to alter the outcome....attempting to do so will only make things even worse for all involved.

What's the good part about having this kind of foresight you might ask?
Firstly, it allows the one with it to step carefully and enables them to make decisions that might seem completely absurd to everyone around them with the knowledge that it is the right decision no matter what.

Secondly, it can assist in saving those close to you from making incredibly bad decisions. Not by blatantly telling them what you know or have foreseen but by doing your best to guide them with care in order to avoid taking that dark path, making that bad or reckless decision. Alas, no matter what you do sometimes those you care about will not hear what you are trying to tell them, since it might be a little vague out of necessity, and blindly proceed.

At the other end of the spectrum are those that have the foresight and don't listen to it themselves. They are given the information, received the "pings" in the mental radar but disregard it for whatever reason. Ignoring this information, no matter how ridiculous it may seem, will bring nothing but sadness, heartache, possibly even great negative effect in one's own life. From personal experience, of the few times I have chosen to ignore that "little voice" things have turned out varying degrees of bad.

Additionally, that "little voice" will also tell you when you need to stop talking because you are saying too much. When you are about to divulge something to someone that they should not be privy to because it will potentially effect decisions they are going to make or are even in the process of making. Like a kind of security check that is ever present.