Cries of Children...

Light: pure and infinite as the future. The story revolves around flashforwards to the future of Ricky and some of the important women in his life. There was a sort of existentialist feel to the story, or at least in Ricky's case. Knowing the future makes you dread it for Ricky, somehow hoping he could know about what was to happen to him. But it also brings up all these questions about ethics and the future. Nothing is set in stone. Ricky's knowledge of his future might inadvertently compel him to make it happen. There is a beautiful danger about knowledge--too little or too much is enough to cause chaos for anyone. It also brings into awareness that we are mere pawns in the game of life and fate: we can never have full control over everything in our lives. No matter how hard we try, there will always be times when we will be a wee bit further behind.