Compare and Contrast future Emma to present Emma and future Josh to present Josh

In the novel, The Future of Us, by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler, future Emma and Josh appear to be much different then Emma and Josh are now.  As Josh and Emma live their present lives in high school their personalities are quite different from one another even though they are such good friends.  Emma is more confident then Josh and will go and talk to new people where Josh would not.  Though Josh is shyer he is much more personable with people.  Emma has a lot going for her because she is talented, smart, good at track, and plays the saxophone in the band.  Someone like that would not expect to have a bad future.  Josh on the other hand is very average.  He rides a skateboard, does well in school, and draws.  When they accidentally log onto Facebook in 1996 and view their lives fifteen years in the future, the tables turn and Josh is the one that has things going for him.  Josh has a high paying job working at a graphic design company, has a beautiful house on the lake in their home town, and has a sweet family with a wife, and three kids. Josh is delighted with how his future life is going but, Emma is highly upset with how hers is looking.  Emma has no kids, a husband who spends a lot of time away, and does not have a stable job.  Due to her frustration she makes alterations to her future, trying to make it better, when really she is making it worse.  She never is content with what her future life looks like.  "Maybe Josh was right and I shouldn't have gotten rid of Jordan Jones so quickly.  Or maybe I should have stuck it out with Kevin.  It wasn't perfect, but every couple has hard times.  Now I'm married to Isaac Rawlings, and we're already getting a divorced"(264).  In order to control her destiny, Emma changes her husband and other aspects of her life if she has the smallest concern about something she posted on Facebook in the future.  Now she regrets all those changes she made and is feeling awful about the risks that she took.  Future Emma's life is worse then it is now where Josh appears to have a better life in the future.  Always be cautious about the decisions you make now because your future is not set in stone and a major mistake could drastically change it.

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