The future is the future: that which is to come.
Porvenir is a future time . This is a situation that is yet to come. For example: “What will the future hold for us in this town?” , “I am eager to know what our future will be like” , “Experts foresee a dark future for the country due to the financial obligations that the State must assume in the coming years” .
The concept, therefore, is synonymous with the future (that which is to come ). This means that, if we place ourselves on a timeline, the past appears behind the present (because it has already happened) and the future is ahead (it has not happened yet).
The future as a conjecture
The future has not yet materialized: therefore, it is a conjecture susceptible to speculation, theories or calculations . Depending on the case, it is possible to anticipate or foresee the future based on the data we have in the present. If a bucket with ten liters of water has a leak that causes it to lose one liter per hour, it can be predicted that, in ten hours, the bucket will be empty. In this way, it can be anticipated that the bucket will be emptied in the near future. There is no way, however, to predict the future accurately, since unforeseen events may arise (in our example, the loss may increase).
We have to emphasize that there are many people who want to know their future and who therefore opt for the services of a psychic to tell them what it is. Crystal balls, palm reading or simply reading tarot cards are some of the ways that witches and other "professionals" of this type have to supposedly determine what will happen to a person in terms of health. , love, work or money, something that is actually impossible to know.
Human beings usually resort to magical practices to try to know the future.
The term in cinema
Within the field of cinema, we would have to highlight the existence of a film that also uses the term that we are now analyzing. This is “The Sweet Future” , which was released in 1997 and is directed by Atom Egoyan .
Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks ySarah Polley son los protagonistas de este largometraje, ganador de laGolden Spike en elValladolid Film Festival, que toma como punto de partida el accidente de un autobús escolar. La mayoría de los pequeños que viajaban en el vehículo y que pertenecían a un mismo pueblo mueren, a excepción de Nicole, que queda paralítica.
Future as a denomination
Porvenir is also the name of a city in southern Chile that has about 5,500 inhabitants and of a small town in the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina).
In Uruguay there is also a town called Porvenir . Specifically, it is a town, belonging to the department of Paysandú , which has its origins in 1894 . Just over a thousand inhabitants have one that is economically supported mainly by activities such as the cultivation of barley, sunflower or soybeans.
The name El Porvenir , finally, names an Argentine soccer team, a newspaper from Monterrey ( Mexico ) and an album by the group Pez .