Shimmy-Shams! What'cha doing?
Reading...
Reading what?
Words...
In what?
A book...
What kind of book?
A journal...
What kind of journal?
A memory journal...
...What's a memory journal?
It's both a subconscious and metaphysical manifestation of not only the abstract, but also the unknown; detailing both within a literary state.
...What's a memory journal?
...It's a book that tells the story of your life. But, it also tells you the story of what your life may or may not be. It's built by complex magic and only the highest degree of magic users can even--
Is that a Best Bucks sticker on the front?
--CAN EVEN conjure it.
Oh... But why would you want to know the future? It takes the adventure out, doesn't it?
Not really. The book corrects itself and reforms chapters as moments pass. The future in the book is not set in stone until that moment passes. But, by then, you've already done what the book said you were going to do or something else. Nopony could ever read every possible outcome for them before the occurrence actually happened. Do you follow?
Yeah... I think I do.
Smart colt.
...So why are you reading about your future?
Oh, I'm not. I already know my future. I don't need a book to tell me what defines who I am.
Then what're you reading?
Your future.
Woooo! What's it say?
This and that... Hm... That's funny...
What?
Nothing, nothing... Just reading a little piece of the future of yours... You certainly have a strange taste in--Hm... Well, we'll see how that all pans out.
How what pans out? Shim...? Shim...? Where're you going? How what pans out?!