Would you rather change your past or know your future?

I would not change my past. Without it I would not be who I am today, and changing it could alter other events that have made an impact on my present life. But I would also not want to know my future.

Knowing what's in store could change how I live my life. And that isn't how I want to see things. I don't want to rush through parts of it, to get to other parts.

I don't want to struggle to make choices when I'll be unsure of the relevance to the predicted outcome. If I could see anything, I would want to see the future of my child. This way if there is anything I can do now to remove and hurt, harm or heartache that isn't necessary for one to live through.

I want to know that he is headed in the right direction and that I am doing a good job parenting. I just want to know he'll be safe and ok. Just in case I don't make it to find out for myself.

Excellent question! I wrestled with it and finally "found peace" with this thinking: "At almost every age the ability to effectively change our past can be used to repair relationships and even to strengthen our present and future. On the other hand, ultimately our future will show us our death.Is it really possible to get past that knowledge, especially since at least as the question is worded we have no control over it?

There could also be events such as the loss of a child or family member that could cause grief from the moment we found out about it. Simply it seems to me the ability to change the past can always be useful while knowing the future with no possibility of altering it would inevitably lead to early and needless pain.

If I would be given a chance to either change the past or know my future then I would neither do any of those. I am very much contented with my life today that whatever mistakes or things in that past that I should do or didn't do does not matter anymore. I believe that past mistakes helped me to reach whatever goals I had and helped me mold to become the best person I can be at the present.

And I am not interested in knowing what would be my future would be because I know that at present I am on the right track and by following this track I will be satisfied and happy whatever the future will bring me. I have stopped living in the past and I don't have any regrets if there are mistakes and decisions that I have made since I know that it contributed to how and what kind of person I am today. And looking at the mirror I can see myself and I love what I saw.

I have found myself and learned to love the person that I am. I have tried and struggled in the past and I am at peace. I am happy about what I have achieved in life and happy to have family and friends.

Contentment is not possible but I am very close to it. I believe that I have grown spiritually and I have offered everything in God so whatever the future is as long as I have .

Change the past. If someone told me my future, that would be useless information, because I could change it with any number of actions. I can choose my future and work towards that goal, and I would do that no matter what someone said.

However, if I could go back and change something that has already happened, I would definitely take the chance to improve my present and future. I've made mistakes that have negatively impacted me, and if I could get rid of those, I would. I don't buy into the idea that all of your mistakes are good because they created who you are today.

That's like saying you're perfect, and you're not. If there's something in the past that stopped you from being better, it would be preferable if it had never happened. It would also be ideal to change things that negatively impacted those around me.

Very good question. After thinking about it, I would have to say that I would choose neither. The temptation would be excruciatingly great to either change the past or know the future.In committing to either one, I know that the cost of altering something which directly or indirectly made what I am today; or knowing for better or for worse what is in store for me, would come at a great cost.

What is that cost? The value of my current experience, the mystery of what is over the horizon, the motivational aspects of positive ambition would all be sacrificed.It is for that reason, that hard as it may be, I would have to pass on both.

I would rather change my past. I often think about the things I did in my life that could be soooo different had I made a better choice. My future could leave me living in fear, pain and misery therefore, I would not care to know this ahead of time.

Even if I was gonna win the lottery or meet the man of my dreams (lol), I would not want to take the fun and excitment away.

I don't think someone telling me my future is useless information - for one thing, it's something you don't know and now that someone has told you, you do know. It's not like you know your future already and can actively work towards changing it. There are some things you can change by actively doing something (say, losing weight and getting more fit in the future).

I want to say that there are things you can't change but then again, I don't know since this is a hypothetical situation. It seems in movies and such, you can't change your future and sometimes changing your past makes the present even worse than before. I think I'd rather know my future rather than change my past.

The one reason I wouldn't want to go back and change my past is because it would reinforce the idea that I've done something I've regretted. While all of us, I'm sure, has done something we regretted, I think it's a harsh but good reminder to those of us that we should always strive to do our best in doing things we won't regret later on. Imagine knowing your future that you're going to work as a professor (and you're currently a student say).

That would be an amazing insight because it would allow you to progress towards your goals that much more efficiently rather than working the odd job here and there before finding your real passion. I think knowledge like that is extremely invaluable.

I would rather know my future. I can always change things for the positive that are in front of me. If I were to change my past who knows how what I changed would effect the things still in front of that event.

Every event in your life has an effect on the next thing in your life. Think of the guy running late for his airplane and misses it and avoids the plane going down. What if he changed running late not knowing the plane went down.

But if he knew his future he would see that plane crash.

I would like to be able to know a little of my future. I think I would be able to put the information to good use. It would be ever so nice to have a glimpse into the future.

Well at 51 years old, I would much rather change my past. I figure I am 3/4 of the way through my life now as it is so I would much rather change the past. I figure if I could change the past, maybe my future would have been much better than it is right now.

I would like to relive my past and see where I would need to make changes based on my current knowledge to maybe improve some of my conditions and circumstances today and in the future. If I could do certain things over again, I would likely wait a few more years before having my first child. I would also have tried to complete my schooling earlier and continued going to school to get my educational requirements knocked out at an earlier age.

These are really the only things I would try to change in my life. Of course, I have experienced a few slight mishaps in my past that I would have preferred did not happen. However, I was able to learn from them, appreciate them for what they were, and most past mistakes did not have too serious consequences/.

Gotta go ack in time! No question about it, I would go back and change a few bad judgement calls in life. I am pretty sure I would have been a much stronger, happier person.

Knowing the future is only good if you want to cheat at the horse races, etc.

That's tough, because if I changed the past the way I would want to, I would not have either of my sons. I feel like the reasons I have for wanting to change the past would be selfish, knowing what I know now. I don't want to know my future, because if it's bad, I would not be able to live my life in peace.

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