Time Traveling Possibilities
Lately, I’ve been thinking a
great deal about the future. And not the near one where my granddaughter will
become a teenager (Ohmygod, already?) or where I’ll celebrate my thirty-fifth
wedding anniversary (Ohmygod – even louder). No, a future several centuries from today. One in which time
traveling could possibly be a reality.
Imagine if there existed an
organization called the Time Traveling Matchmakers Inc., whose mission
statement would be “to bring soul mates together, to live as
one, in harmony, peace, and love.”
This is the premise of my
latest novel, Before the After. Of
course, even in the future, nothing will be perfect. And a matchmaker sent
after his own soul mate could turn
the entire future upside down.
Writing about what may be
possible ahs caused me to reflect on how much has changed in the past one
hundred years.
I’m sure my grandparents
could never imagine a world in which almost everyone walked around with a
handheld electronic device. Where people were constantly scrolling up and down
a screen, communicating with people they’ve never seen in person.
Sometimes it’s even hard for
me to fathom how much has changed since my high school days.
Take this scene for
instance. I walk into my daughter’s house and in a boisterous voice, I yell,
“Hi everyone.”
Silence.
My granddaughter is texting
on her iPhone. My grandson is
playing on his Kindle. My son-in-law is on his computer. My daughter is on her
iPad. Even the toddler thinks he’s on a “real” phone, sliding his thumb across
his toy.
Why, the only one who
acknowledges my presence is their crazy, sixty pound boxer. He could knock me
down for all they care.
And this has me worried
about the future. Have we become
so plugged into our cyber worlds that we are ignoring the “real” one around us?
What about that “heart
pounding, groin pulsating, got-to-have-it now” feeling? The one where we actually touch each
other.
If this ceases to exist, if
people become satisfied by “virtual” love-making, then I do hope time traveling
becomes a reality.
I’d employ the services of
the Time Traveling Matchmakers, Inc. and travel back in time, perhaps to the
1950s, to once again experience life before technology took over the world.
How about you? Where would
you go?
Before the After
Love takes on a new meaning when soul
mates are brought together through time and space.
Like
every goal-oriented twenty-something, Jessica Singleton, an aspiring filmmaker,
is obsessed with finding her future as quickly as possible. Tick Tock. What she
doesn't know is that the future is obsessed with finding her, too. Renn Porter,
an agent with Time Traveling Matchmaker's Inc, blasts back in time—and into her
life—in order to transport Jessica to the soul mate who has paid for this
service...in the future. But things turn dangerous when it's revealed that Renn
has been sent after his own soul mate.
Jessica
wants nothing to do with this strange guy and his crazy romantic notions. Who
has time for a soul mate anyway? But tell that to her heart.
Caught
between two times, Jessica and Renn must struggle to stay alive. Falling in
love is the biggest risk either of them has ever taken—because, as they are
destined to learn, the very existence of Time Traveling Matchmakers, Inc. rests
in Jessica's hands.
