hit the mark ten times out of ten

?English:自分の駄文は隠すんです。ムダに長いし。
As Aristotle said, humans are animals that are eager to know things. Though in fact, there are not many people who like school or studying, and who want to know their own fault, when it comes to their future or fault of other people, it is another matter.

Particularly, what people want to know is their future. Many people go to fortune-telling booths to check their future. Even people who don’t want to know their future try to know which horse will win in a horse race and watch the predictions in the racing paper with close attention. In addition, the weather predictions are broadcasted many times each day.

I’ve often been disappointed in my predictions at some gambles. I found that some suits will be sold for cheap prices by the newspaper’s advertisement. And I took the opportunity to buy 3 suits. Though I thought that it was a good purchase, after the purchase, I gained some weight so I’ve never worn some of the suits.
I didn’t think that I have only a little ability. When I was a boy, I thought I was good at everything and I could be anything.

But almost all of these faults in predictions are not important. There is no fault that causes a critical result. In the point of critical matters, I have been accurate in almost all of my predictions. For example, the prediction that sun will raise tomorrow is never wrong. “The electric pole won’t walk to me” and “my head or the earth won’t suddenly disappear”, these predictions have always been accurate. And more, the predictions that the weather tomorrow will be rainy or clear, and the day after Tuesday will be Wednesday, these are always right.

Maybe many people have experienced the same. But humans are selfish animals. I doubt that people would think "how nice if all of their predictions were correct." But in fact, accurate predictions are quite difficult to achieve. Even today as science has progressed a lot, a weather forecasting occasionally was wrong information and in the case of economics or stock movement, the forecasting hardly ever comes true. The cause may be a lack of data or that there is still more room to progress.

I'd like to ignore that kind of matter. What do we do if we could predict perfectly all of the things?

“At first, we would go to buy horse race tickets and stocks, then we would also go to Las Vegas and play some gambles”. Many people might answer like this. In the movie of “Back to the future”, what the central character who get the ability to forecast did at first is like this.

But does it go on well forever? If the prediction could be accurate at any time, of course the predictions about our own behavior could be accurate. In this case, we couldn't do anything against our predictions, because if we would do something against the prediction, it would come that the prediction is false.

I mean, people must go through with their predictions and there is no choice to do other thing. Then if the prediction would say to buy the wrong ticket of the horse race, we must buy it as the prediction says. Though we know which horse would win, we must bet the other horse. Let's think if we could bet the horse that the prediction says he would win and we could get a lot of money. Also in this case, we could forecast how we would be. Same as all-too-common case, how comes we could forecast that we couldn't manage that money and become slovenly to destroy our family? In addition, how comes we could know clearly that we finally would catch disease and then follow hopeless life?

If we would be in this situation, we couldn't be happy if how much money we would have. Not only getting money, everything result in unfortunate situation. If we would know to have unfortunate result before doing anything, we wouldn't want to do anything because of its worthless meaning. Everything we do is done because we don't know the result. And that's not all. If we would have the forecasting ability absolutely, we could know the result of the thriller, cinema, and baseball game before we watch. We never be excited.

Still is there a person who wants to get the ability to forecast absolutely? I think it would rather happy to remain this present situation to only be able to predict like that it would be Wednesday after Tuesday. Innocent which person makes between joy and sorrow may support the human happiness. We should thank god to give me the innocent instead of the forecasting ability. And next time when I'll pray to god, I would pray to hit the horse race instead of to get the forecasting ability.