Tomorrow, Backwards.

The phrase refers to something one of my nephews told me once. He was trying to find a way of explaining the idea of "yesterday" but did not know the word for it yet. In his best estimation he came up with "tomorrow, but backwards". It is interesting to me to consider the fact that at a preschool age his knowledge of a concept of past was only starting to develop. This of course relates to the child development and psychology. Freud and the whole gang would tell me that this occurrence is due to the fact that my nephew has not yet developed a concept of others and is still only focused on self. He therefor, has very little personal history of his own and does not consider the past very often. He is able to say He wacthed something or played something but doesn't necessarily know all of the vocabulary associated with the past. Hence- no knowledge of the word yesterday.

This got me thinking: with only a future and no past what kind of differences would we see in our lives? If we only focused on the tomorrow and made decisions solely based on possibility and not our innate knowledge of what has worked for us previously what kind of decisions might we make instead of the ones we currently make?

So let's consider this alternate universe. We can't without looking at studies of people with no capacity for memory. So how about a more literal translation. What if tomorrow did come but it was in fact backwards? What do you think that would mean? What is the sun going to do?