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A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
~ George Murray
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Just recently, on my rare days off, I turned on my television, something to have in the background while cleaning, and ended up watching the history channel. There's something in the saying, history repeats itself, and my infatuation with it, had me glued to the subject of Nostradamus.
Far fetched, perhaps. Writing from so long ago predicting our future, or even our demise. To me, it's almost like an attraction to this melancholy, the disasters which might befall us and no one being able to stop them, or even bother to prevent them. The past catches up to us, or so we're told. That may have something to do with the fact that we don't change our habits. Human nature is a very predictable thing, with only a fraction of new advances and only a few select people seeing farther into the future than most of us. Then, just when I thought it's all done, the 7 Signs of the Apocalypse came on and I had no other choice but to watch that as well.
The fact is, you may or may not believe in any of it. That is your choice. For a writer, however, it presents so many different aspects to story telling that you cannot help but draw from it and want to include something of that sort into your own writing. Movies are full of such predictions and disasters which border on our demise just to find that one person who'll save the world and no one will even know about them.
A true hero or heroine.
Selflessness in a character is rare. More often than not, it's something we have trouble believing in because, when you look around you, most people are career oriented, sometimes even greedy, and would stop at nothing to get what they want. Rare is the person who'll give up everything and fight for what they truly believe in without looking back at their own life and their own future. That may also be the reason why such a character is much sought after. Their purpose in life to protect others, no matter the cost.
We're not talking about police officers, fire fighters, and heroes which are lightly ignored. We are talking about a simple person who's been thrown into the midst of things and the future of all humanity depends on them. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz comes to mind - a simple kid who sees something no one else does and whose life takes on a new direction completely. No looking back.
Predictions or not, each character has to have a purpose and a goal. What they see and how they see it creates the good story. You just have to know how to use it. Maybe do some predicting yourself? 
'til next time!
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