These two lines contain an important idea. No living being knows anything about the future. Men and animals _ they are aware only of their present. What is to come nobody knows. We may make guesses or we may speculate about the future. We may make forecasts and prophecies. But we do not know what exactly is in store for us. All guesses and all forecasts about the future may prove to be incorrect. Quite the reverse of what we have predicted may happen.
The future is thus a closed book for human being.s Providence in His unlimited wisdom has so ordained things that all creatures are blissfully ignorant of the future course of their lives. A man does not know what is to happen to him a year later, or a month later, or tomorrow, or even the next moment. A man leave his house in the morning for his office and may not return home alive. He may meet with an accident and be killed. He may succumb to a terrorist attack. But when he left home, he was full of hope. What is happening in the present is all that a man knows.
The ignorance of future circumstances is a great advantage. We should, indeed, consider our ignorance of the future to be a glorious uncertainty. If one were to know all that is to happen in the future, one's life would become miserable. After all, life is a mixture of good and bad incidents. If a man were to know even one bad incident like a serious illness or a financial loss or dismissal from service, which is to occur in future, he would lose his sleep on account of worry, anxiety and fear.
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