I mistakenly said in my last post- which I'm about to go edit:

*Does that mean I'm the constant?

But Desmond isn't the constant, Desmond needs a constant.

I realized this error because I said to Ryan, "I think I'm turning into Desmond."
His response was, "I'll be your constant."


I wonder if people think about things before they say them.


And here's your brief Desmond explanation:

Desmond is sent back to 1996, where he relives the moments leading to his break-up with Penny. When he is in Charles Widmore's office, seeking the elder Widmore's blessing because he is planning to ask Penny to marry. Later on, he remembers the island only after seeing Charlie (Dominic Monaghan) busking in the streets. He is told by a mysterious woman, Eloise Hawking (Fionnula Flanagan), that it is his destiny to be on the island. He is later knocked unconscious and wakens back in the present. Desmond mentions [to Hurley] a speech Locke has made, without realizing Locke doesn't make this speech until his and Hurley's return to the beach.

Desmond begins having perceptions of another reality of himself as a private in the British Army's Royal Scots Regiment. He begins flashing back and forth between present day on the freighter, and his life in 1996 before arriving on the island... Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies) explains that the shifting perceptions Desmond is experiencing are actually a form of time travel. He tells Desmond when he reverts to the memory of him in 1996, he must go to Oxford University and find the past Faraday, where Faraday was working on a time machine. Here Faraday tells Desmond he must find a constant, something or someone that is the same in both 1996 and 2004 that he can use as a reference point. He uses Penny as this "constant". Desmond realizes that in order to stop the timeshifting he must make contact with Penny on Christmas Eve 2004, the date he is on the freighter. In 1996, he manages to find an angry Penny who does not want to see him. He pleads with her to give him her phone number, and to not change it as he will phone it in eight years time, where she must pick up. When he reverts to the present, he makes the call. She answers the phone and tearfully tells him she has been searching for him and knows about the island, and that she loves him. On the island Faraday looks through his journal and finds a page saying that if anything went wrong, Desmond would be his constant.