I was surprised when I found out that I am one of the people in my class that got the highest mark for the free essay section. This is written in panic:

 

The future is what a lot of people want to find out. And smarter people who realise this point have created various ways to cater to these people's need. There is fortune-telling, palm-reading, tarot card-reading, tea leaves-reading, necromancy and many more. Some people say some of the methods are more accurate, but who really knows?

 

Fortune-telling. This is the method I think is most inaccurate, all just because it is widely used, or to be precise, abused. It might have been a really accurate way of predicting the future, but so many can say so many different things about the same face. Sometimes when someone being fortune-told move their features a little bit, like frowning a little, or slightl pursing their lips, and a whole different story comes out of the fortune-teller's mouth. And there are these conmen, who always say good things about a person to the fortune-told people, because, well, they want to con them. And the existance of these conmen has made all the other methods of future-predicting untrustworthy.

 

Actually, how much do we know about our future? You can say the future is vague and clear at the same time. Clear, because you know what will happen tomorrow, or the next day; vague, because you do not really know the precise events. For example, what I know today about tomorrow is that I have a tuition class tomorrow. I even now I will be learning about the principles of account. But what the teacher is going to say, or whether he will start a new chapter, or do revision, I do not know. This part, I am predicting, with the words the teacher said last week as clues. 

 

Necromancy is the way of predicting the future through a ghost. A necromancer would be possessed temporarily by a ghost to tell the future of another person. But how does the ghost know about the person's future, when it does not even have a future? I am just saying that according to what the people in the movies say, 'If you run away now, you'll have a future; you can come back for me later. But if you are killed now, there would be no future for the both of us.' How much of the line is true actually? The future is something that would happen to an entity, and if ghosts exist, why wouldn't ghosts have futures?

 

Scientists say if you travel faster than light, you will enter another dimension of time and space, either the past or the future. And the way to do it is to get sucked into a black hole. But there is a contradiction: scientists also say that a black hole is a 'hollow' so 'fast' that nothing can enter it, not even light. But the matter that are close enough to it would get sucked into it and become nothingness. Some say their bonds are all destroyed and they have become their original particle forms; some say they enter another time and space. A year back, it was reported that a person from the future has travelled to the past to undo an event using a mini black hole. Then he 'stopped by' last year to spill a little beans to us. He claimed to be from 2041, take or give a little, and that if the event that he had undone wasn't undone, there would be no future for him. But here is a question: isn't he from the future already? Oh, and he said he has 'stopped by' the year when he was a toddler. He said he saw his baby self. But here is a question again: how can there be two him?

 

There is this little unsolveable story that I know. If you travelled back to murder your grandfather before he even met your grandmother, would the future him still be in the future? Would your father be there? More importantly, would you? If you wouldn't, do you immediately disappear right when your grandfather lose his last breath; or would you disappear after you time-travelled back to the future?

 

The future is predictable, and unpredictable at the same time. I think the best way to know about it is to live until it arrives.

 

[Teacher's remark: A strong conviction shown in ideas expressed (yet questionable!). Good use of vocabulary, and well structured sentences.]