It's been a crazy weekend. My roomate moved out this weekend(He's getting married soon), and moving always makes you tired, even when you're not the one doing it. Then, yesterday, his dog got hit by a car. Then it got hit again. Rather than watch Jesse(the dog), slowly die, the most humane thing to do was to go get the gun and shoot it. So, my ex-roomate has been feeling pretty rotten today. I took him to a movie in an effort of escapism for an hour and a half. John Woo's film "Paycheck" was what we ended up going to. It turned out to be a decent movie, with the premise of a machine allowing you to see our future. The conclusion is made at one point that seeing your entire future ahead of you would take away hope. I think I would hate seeing my personal future. I would feel so trapped, like all choice had been taken away from me. The statement was also made by one character that "Life is just a sum of experiences." I don't think I agree with that sentiment, because as a Christian with eternal perspective, life here is just the beginning of life. Sometimes living, making decisions, with regard only to my personal experiences has caused me to make wrong choices. I think everybody does this to a degree. It's part of the reason it is so hard to be open with other people sometimes. Everybody has experienced a loss of trust. I know I have used this experience to keep people at a distance sometimes. If i really think about it, I wonder about what kind of relationships I've missed out on because of the trust placed in experience when deciding how to live my life. So, the question becomes how to make wise choices, and how to know when to account for experiences in decision making and when to ignore experiences in consideration of the big picture, of eternity.