Awareness in Absentia.

I think I mentioned recently that I seem to have lost my sense of the future. I was pondering while walking along Mill Lane tonight that sense isn’t the same as awareness. We might plan for the future, wonder about the future, anticipate the future, and even question the future, but they all operate on the conscious level. The sense resides at the unconscious level. It’s something we’re born with; it’s something we don’t question because it’s something we don’t think about; it’s something we take for granted. It’s like a clock ticking away quietly in the corner of the room. We don’t notice it until it stops, and then we become aware of something missing.