This classic riddle asks: What can be in front of you without you ever seeing it? The clue sounds as if it is describing something hidden, but the answer is really about time.
The answer is: the future.
The future is always ahead of you, but it cannot literally be seen before it happens. You can make plans, predictions, and guesses, but no one can look directly at future events the way they can see an object standing in front of them.
The riddle works because the phrase “in front of you” usually makes us imagine something visible. Here, it is used figuratively. Once you think about what lies ahead in time rather than what lies ahead in space, the answer becomes clear.
