TM 318: What Does Your Future Look Like?
I don’t know. I couldn’t even begin to presume what the future looks like, not after everything that I have seen, not after everything that I have experienced. When I was a young princess in my home dimension, I thought for sure that I knew what my future would be. I would be queen one day, strong, proud, and beautiful - married to a prince consort who, with me, would make our queendom a prosperous one with a long, illustrious legacy. Little did I know then that I would abdicate my throne - my entire dimension - in favor of marrying one of Earth’s superheroes, eventually becoming the queen of his kingdom and the mother of his child.
Then, when I thought I knew my future then, I was thrown for another loop. There was the never-ending battle to keep my powers to myself (what it is with this particular dimension and tearing women’s powers away from them, I will never know) and the loss of my son, Arthur Jr. Throw into this mix a life in an alternate dimension with another son borne to me, an affair that my husband had with another woman, the destruction of Atlantis, and the disappearance and death of my husband…
If I have learned any one thing in my years here on Earth, I have learned this: The future is dark and uncertain - always shifting, always changing, never being what you expect or hope it to be, and most of the time the past doesn’t hold a single clue to what tomorrow might bring. Sometimes I even doubt that tomorrow is aware of what it will bring.
I only know that every day, as I witness one new war after another, the idea that my future one day might be one of peace is one that I lose a little belief in every day.
Mera
Aquaman
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