A Curse or a Blessing?
In the Outlander series, Claire Randall is a time traveller. She is able to go back to the battle of Culloden to find her true love Jamie Fraser but also their nemesis Jack Randall. She is of course accused of being a witch and because Jack is such a nasty, twisted person she decides to exploit her reputation and curse him, but in an unusual way.
Not with frogs coming out of his ears or warts on his nose. No, something far worse. She knows and tells him the date of his death which is of course a dreadful fact and one that would make you very twitchy.
But here’s the thing. What if an attractive bonny lass burst into your life and told you what we know is an inevitable concrete fact, but which none of us really knows for certain?
Would that be a blessing or a curse?
On the one hand, it would be downright terrifying, but it would also give you an opportunity to get your stuff together and ‘tidy up’.
And I wonder if you were cursed/blessed with this bewildering date say… in 3 months' time… would it change the way you live today? Who would you contact, what would you say, who would you tell?
And as the day drew closer…? What then is on your checklist, your bucket list and what matters most? Do you see how this exercise sharpens the mind and fine-tunes our priorities?
Or maybe you would just let the clock run down and go on doing what you have always done. Perhaps you are already sweet, dandy, tidy and all squared away.
The date of your death may well be unknown, but it is out there, somewhere, and it will find you.