Next — now for my next trick — what comes next? Here we stand at the nexus of next, the watershed moment as it were. The next thing can be this, or perhaps that, or perhaps both, or perhaps neither.
Whose choice is it? Mine, yours, or someone else’s entirely?
I don’t know.
That’s the scary and the exhilarating thing about it all: We don’t know. We may have preferences or predictions, but what comes next is out of our control.
You might say only God knows. But who knows what God knows? If we have free will, He might have a good idea, but if we have free will, wouldn’t we surprise God from time to time by choosing a different path than the one we seem destined to take?
It could be that the only ways to see what comes next are to watch, or to act and see what happens.
