The Road We Were Always Walking

Anyway, if I was always going to write this, was this comment also inevitable?
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Okay hira, this got me thinking O_O

I love the way u've taken a concept that we rarely question, that we choose our path and it determines our future,

and made it seem so fickle and uncertain. I mean, what if all our decisions are simply unveiling something that was already decided? IT'S A BRAIN TWISTER!

My favorite part is comparing it to a road that we've always been on. It's kind of creepy in a way, because we always wonder what would have happened if we had taken a different route, but what if none of those decisions were ever in our power to make?

I also love how u don't try to "force feed" an answer to the reader, but instead leave them questioning and wondering how much control they really have over their lives.

This is one of those philosophical riddles that keeps u up at night pondering the meaning of existence and questioning everything u thought you knew about life! Loved it hira!! <3

~lilly♡ the fire dragon

Hi Hira, I was scouring the green room for something to review and stumbled across this

I like the idea behind this. I have this personal theory (it probably has a real name) that time is linear but every moment of our lives, and of history, is happening at once, alongside each other. This would mean that our future choices are already happening alongside the ones we are making now. This would be the only way for time travel to make sense if we ever created it, because if we go back in time, the future is still happening, thus it must be happening concurrently. Sorry, that was a somewhat irrelevant ramble, but you poem made me think of it because of the idea our choices are not ours and are set in stone.

I think the second part of the poem/piece is what you should work with. It's much better than the first, which is just stating a rather simple philosophical point that many of us wondered about as kids! I much rather think the exploration of this idea, such as likening it to a walk on a road, is much more creative. I think your works often suffer from just being a thought that could well have been a post, and there is so much more to be explored and written about that I know you are capable of!

There’s nothing a reader can see, touch, or hear. You ask a philosophical question and then answer it with more philosophy. A concrete scene or image (someone at a junction, a specific decision, a specific object) would let the reader feel the idea rather than be told it. Maybe liken it to an experience of your own? Just an idea!

Hopefully that can help! Like the idea <3

Heyy! I really liked the idea behind this. It’s short, but it makes you stop and actually think about what free will even means. The question at the beginning immediately caught my attention because it turns something we normally assume — that our choices create our future — completely upside down.

I especially liked the idea that maybe the future already exists somewhere beyond what we can perceive, and our choices are just the way we eventually reach it. That’s such a strange thought because we still feel like we're choosing, even if everything was somehow already decided.

The last part was my favorite. “The strange feeling / of discovering a road / we were always going to walk” really sums up the whole idea so simply. It almost feels like the difference between choosing your destiny and slowly discovering it.

This genuinely gave me that little “wait... what if?” feeling after reading it.

Really interesting piece. I love how you took such a huge question about free will and the future and expressed it in such a simple, understandable way. Keep writing these kinds of thoughts because they really make the reader stop and think.