One Time For Your Mind

"The mind of a man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past and all the future"
- Joseph Conrad

       Joseph Conrad was a British writer, who has written the novels "Lord Jim"and "Heart Of Darkness". Conrad was born on December 3rd, 1857, in Berdychev, Ukraine. He lived at sea while he was employed in the French and British Merchant Marines. After 16 years of being in the in the British Merchant Marines, he left the sea and decided to move onto land. That is when he began to write his short stories, and later become a highly successful author. Joseph Conrad's written work combines many experiences he faced while traveling the world in the marines, and focuses on the dark sides of human nature. Joseph Conrad died in England on August 3rd, 1924.


   Joseph Conrad is saying that our minds are everything. Everything we feel and everything we do, it all comes from our minds. Our minds allow us to interpret and understand different things and create new and unique things. Our minds are the past, and all the future. We, as people, are all connected to the past, and we will all account for what happens in the future. Our minds will always be the same, even if we do get smarter in the future, we will still hold an image and think about the past to deal with what we might face in the future. We hope for the future to be good to us, every single person on this earth has. 100 years ago we hoped for a better future, and today we still hope for one. Our minds will never change, it is just how they are, and how we are. This quote to me, makes it seem like the future is meaningless, whatever happens, happens type feel. What happened was always going to happen. It also makes me feel hopeful for the future that if our minds are all the past and all the future, then we can carve a pathway to a good future. We create our future so that we can be more comfortable, but when that future becomes present, we always think about what's next.