Comparing past, present and future is one of my richest sources of sparkles. There's always that moment of wonderment when I realize how something this essential to me back a few months or years ago was lying around so neglected, not to mention that very moment of realizing the peripheralized was deserving of a higher spot.
I like noticing how sometimes the things that last are the ones that doesn't strike us head on but slowly grow in.
When you're first introduced to this girl and you'd never think a few years later she'll be the most important person in your life. That friend which you never shared too much intimacy, but hey, he was the one who had always been there. That secondary character that easily outbadassed the protagonist. That song near the end of the album, outshined by catchier songs but now becoming one of your band's favorites.
Eh, you get the idea.
I like the possibility of using this concept in some stories. In a way, it's got a name already: Chekov's Gun. But the realization made the already-known name much more meaningful and interesting. I think of showing something that at first is hardly crucial to the story, but soon things will revolve around it. Transforming somebody from the secondary cast into the main leader, or a valuable item being tossed around unimportantly in the beginning, and ironically being the most prized item in the world towards the end.
Hey, it can be done otherwise as well...
(now that's a silly name, ah what the hell, at least it's better than all the dozen names I've went through)
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