Waking Up in the Future

I went to bed last night and the world was much as it had been.

But I woke up in the future.

Colin Wright, from Exile Lifestyle, wrote a post more than a year ago about this same phenomenon. I've missed a couple hours when everything changed.

I woke up in a world that is free from Osama bin Laden. I know this is not the end of taking my shoes off everytime I go through airport security, but I do know that this is the end of his particular reign of terror. We have been frightened of him, the symbol of extremist terrorism, since 2001. And today, almost a decade later, he is dead.

I am thinking of all of my little relatives who have grown up in a world where Osama was a major threat. He was a reason not to go to the airport but to drive. He was a reason why you could never be too careful in public places. They've never known a world as free as it was in 2000.

Now that he is gone, what are the possibilities?