Prologue
"The Day After Yesterday"
"The Day After Yesterday"
Knowing THEN what you know now. Would it truly be a game changer?
Maybe.
After all, it's a chance to right wrongs, before they happen-- long romanticized an alluring prospect, to be sure. You get to pull hurtful words back during an argument; not passing on a job offer when the other turns out to be a flop. While you’re at it, why not ask that high school crush out on a date? Better than finding out years later with a dad body at a stupid class reunion that someone actually had a crush on YOU.
Is fate an absolute? Or, could there be a predetermined template, unable to be changed? Even if you had a time machine?? What if you had the chance to go back? Right now. What would you do with such a momentous opportunity to complete the undone or to right wrongs?
Would you make the same mistakes? Or, with intimate knowledge of the past, would one be too busy looking for fate to unfold in a familiar direction as it blindsides from another? Predetermined. Inescapable.
As they say, knowledge is power, hindsight is 20/20 and past is prologue. Or is it? Really?
Chris Barrow transferred to New Orleans for a rebirth of sorts. Perhaps he was running from fate, or the past more than anything. New Orleans was his needed change; he was sure of it. As they say, though, the best laid plans…
Fate has found Christopher Barrow in a trying spot on this particular evening. Far away from his childhood home, he felt all alone in a strange, yet wonderfully spiritual city.
New Orleans is a city drenched in hundreds of years of culture with a history as rich as it is eccentrically notorious. A beautiful, yet mysterious place; its people are known for embracing one another and total strangers alike. They're also known for chasing them away. Especially those who don't truly love her. Unconditionally.
An abundance of alcohol, coupled with a 24-hour nightlife, can be pure poison to some while its culture, architecture and history is romantically glorious to others. New Orleans is a city that does not always love unconditionally, though; you have to love it back.
That seems fair enough, since the city has shone brightly with human resilience in the face of being burned to the ground twice. They've endured crippling bouts of Cholera and Yellow Fever...the little things that tend to plague a city which is built on top of a swamp. And, of course, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina still haunts the minds of its people years later.
They still love, they persevere, they hope and they rebuild. It’s a city that refuses to tolerate those who pass through with a chip on the shoulder. No time for nonsense and trivial worries that plague transients who come in and out of her life every day from the flipside of the Marriott Hotel revolving door.
New Orleans, Louisiana, yes, indeed. Truly one of the most unique cities in the world. A place, even before Katrina, of rebirth. You either “get it” or you get out.
Is fate an absolute? Or, could there be a predetermined template, unable to be changed? Even if you had a time machine?? What if you had the chance to go back? Right now. What would you do with such a momentous opportunity to complete the undone or to right wrongs?
Would you make the same mistakes? Or, with intimate knowledge of the past, would one be too busy looking for fate to unfold in a familiar direction as it blindsides from another? Predetermined. Inescapable.
As they say, knowledge is power, hindsight is 20/20 and past is prologue. Or is it? Really?
Chris Barrow transferred to New Orleans for a rebirth of sorts. Perhaps he was running from fate, or the past more than anything. New Orleans was his needed change; he was sure of it. As they say, though, the best laid plans…
Fate has found Christopher Barrow in a trying spot on this particular evening. Far away from his childhood home, he felt all alone in a strange, yet wonderfully spiritual city.
New Orleans is a city drenched in hundreds of years of culture with a history as rich as it is eccentrically notorious. A beautiful, yet mysterious place; its people are known for embracing one another and total strangers alike. They're also known for chasing them away. Especially those who don't truly love her. Unconditionally.
An abundance of alcohol, coupled with a 24-hour nightlife, can be pure poison to some while its culture, architecture and history is romantically glorious to others. New Orleans is a city that does not always love unconditionally, though; you have to love it back.
That seems fair enough, since the city has shone brightly with human resilience in the face of being burned to the ground twice. They've endured crippling bouts of Cholera and Yellow Fever...the little things that tend to plague a city which is built on top of a swamp. And, of course, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina still haunts the minds of its people years later.
They still love, they persevere, they hope and they rebuild. It’s a city that refuses to tolerate those who pass through with a chip on the shoulder. No time for nonsense and trivial worries that plague transients who come in and out of her life every day from the flipside of the Marriott Hotel revolving door.
New Orleans, Louisiana, yes, indeed. Truly one of the most unique cities in the world. A place, even before Katrina, of rebirth. You either “get it” or you get out.
It remains to be seen what fate awaits Christopher Barrow but, his hopes are high for a much needed, positive change of pace.
Many people worry about the past, yesterday. Others fret about tomorrow, the future. It's only when one truly embraces today in order to understand what's important. It's always the day after yesterday.
copyright Pontchartrain Press, 2008
copyright Pontchartrain Press, 2008
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