This classic riddle asks: What can you never see but is always right in front of you? The answer is not a physical object. Instead, it is something that is always ahead of us in time.
The answer is the future.
The future is always in front of you because every moment you have not yet lived is still ahead. But you cannot actually see it before it happens. You can make plans, guesses, and predictions, but the future itself remains unseen until it becomes the present.
That contrast is what makes the riddle effective. The phrase “right in front of you” usually makes us picture something visible, but here it is being used figuratively. Once you shift from thinking about physical space to thinking about time, the answer becomes clear.
