Why It Is Yesterday
What will happen to the researcher who, being crazy enough, decides to record the average times people say yesterday on each new day? Wouldn’t the raw data that will need sorting overwhelm him?
But hey, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and others did not despair. Our researcher has hope. The steepest of road need not skid a car. Gentle and careful navigation will do the job.
The researcher will have to linear Time. He will have to choose from a pool of testing models. The best and easiest model to choose, being the Family Model, FM. In FM, Yesterday is the oldest, Today is the mid-born while the Future is the youngest.
Assuming X, the sociological structure in family, is positively correlated to his work, he will explore the significance of Yesterday. In African societies, the oldest of a set of offsprings often has very clear functions. He or she is like the second father or second mother to the others. He is the path other follows. He guides their feet, removing stones and glass shards from their ways. He consequently ensures their happiness.
After extensive testings, the researcher that used the Family Model, will be able to emphatically report that in the walk of life, Yesterday (should) leads, Today follows, while young Future will stride or hop on one leg depending on how well the road is cleared.
I know nothing about the report of the researcher that used another model. You can guess.
* This post was inspired by Chuma Nwokolo’s
Why Yesterday? post on his African Writing blog.
