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Future; Ponderous musings.
Topic Started: 22nd September 2007 - 04:07 PM (870 Views)
Akai-Chan
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Just a moment ago I had a thought about how my life would be different if I could change one thing about my past... Now it's bugging me.

If you could go back into your own past, knowing all your mistakes and what could change them (But not knowing how it would turn out) would you?

The slightest thing can change the future, out words, our actions, random spontaneous decisions. One word can change the world. If you knew what that word was, would you say it? Or keep your life as it is now? Are you happy, truly happy?

(This is what I get for becoming a philosophy student)

Right now I wouldn't be typing this here if some random guy hadn't come up to me on the beach asking for cigarettes. That moment changed my future (for the better). I wouldn't change my past in any way, because even though I do get depressed occasionally, I am happy where I am. If I changed something, it could make me a whole lot happier or a whole lot sadder. I couldn't live with the unsureity.

If you held your future in your own hands, would you change it?

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I also met a really nice looking paving slab offcut when I was there. There was a mutual interest in each other as it let me rest my head on her during the night. Then I was a bit of a twat and left before it woke up in the morning. Ha ha, take that you slab!
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Offcourse not!

Not because I feel like I've lived the most perfect life out there or because I'm uncertain or anything, but just because I like to play with the cards I'm dealt ;) .

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I'm with Bodacious. Personally, I like the quote from Hanz in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: "Life is simple, you make decision and don't look back."

Personally, I think it is wasted time thinking back on things you did and "what could've happened." Whenever the "what could've happened" is better, it's because in your imagination, you control everything that "could've happened". There are no unseen consequences, no variables out of your control, etc in your imagination when thinking back. It's all that "the grass is always greener on the other side..." situation.

So yeah, make decision and don't look back, while looking back at the past you're missing the present.
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I would also agree Bobacious, there is no need to change the past as it has made you who you are today. and as for "If you held your future in your own hands, would you change it?" There is no if, you and you alone are the one that can dictate what it is you will be. You may not be able to pick the situations but you can pick how you will respond.
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Akai-Chan
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Sep 22 2007, 05:51 PM
Personally, I think it is wasted time thinking back on things you did and "what could've happened."  Whenever the "what could've happened" is better, it's because in your imagination, you control everything that "could've happened".  There are no unseen consequences, no variables out of your control, etc in your imagination when thinking back.  It's all that "the grass is always greener on the other side..." situation.

Usually I do live in the present, but sometimes I can't help but look back, I don't think anyone can :)

One of my new year resolutions was actually live for now... It seems to having been working up until late...

I blame summer being over :D

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I also met a really nice looking paving slab offcut when I was there. There was a mutual interest in each other as it let me rest my head on her during the night. Then I was a bit of a twat and left before it woke up in the morning. Ha ha, take that you slab!
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Wow...philosophy from fast and furious...

But yea, even without unforeseen consequences, you just purely should be regretful of the past. You did what you did for a reason, and maybe things would've been different, but you made the right decision for the time, even if it turned out to be wrong.

Sounds like somebody needs to go watch some twilight zone though...
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Sep 22 2007, 11:07 AM
If you could go back into your own past,

I don't want to go there in the first place
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I think about this a lot.

As with everyone's life things haven't always been their best or I haven't been happy with how things were going. At their worst I remember thinking bitterly about how much better it could have, or should have been.

But would I change that bit of my life, make different choices, cut it out completely, if I knew then what I know now; if I knew how things were going to turn out eventually?

Probably not... I'd be too scared of losing the things I'm happiest about now. At the very least I might not appreciate them as much.

However, I'd still like life to have an undo button. That'd just be awesome.
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:blink: i was talking to a friend about this yesterday after they'd just watched the episode of doctor who were rose goes back an stops her dad getting run over (i missed that one mysen, but she has them on dvd and is rewatching it all from the beginning)

i said that i would go back and change things. just to see how i turned out. i'd probs of never done the DoE award thing, as i never got my thingy signed up anyway, and during the walks i was miserable (my "comrades" <_< left me to walk on my own cause i couldn't keep up. for all 2 days walking <_< ). if i hadn't started that i wouldn't of gotten into warhammer (i restarted warhammer to fulfil the skill section of the award) and thus would have a lot more money, be less of a loner, pay more attention to my school stuff and want to hang out with my mates more (because i wouldn't of gone to play warhammer down at GW last thursday when they went to play basketball (hey, i only get to play everyother thursday now, so i wasn't gonna pass it up, even if a couple of the guys at my GW are 'tards)). i'd also be a lot better at skating cause i wouldn't of given up going to the skate park on a saturday to go play in warhammer campaigns.

so yeah, just not turning upto that meeting in RE1 on a thursday lunchtime 1 and half-2 years agoish would've made a big difference to me.

i probs never would've started growing my hair (now a bit longer than shoulder length and i have to have a pony tail for work), and i might've chosen a different pair of glasses back at the end of year 6 (stuck with the same frames 5 years on, and now i kabah to change). and i don't think i would've eaten so much protein food (i had 2 poached eggs after school as well as 1-3pints of milk a day for a year long stint) to grow tall, so i wasn't so absurdly lanky.

when i was 6 i wouldn't of started wearing odd socks, that along with my hair is now one of those "what makes casper" things, and i can't change it :( i'd of kept doing kung fu, made more of an effort to get into basketball and continued skating. so i was generally fitter. i would've tried to befriend "her" before i told my mates i liked her and she wouldn't go near me again <_< . i wouldn't of got so drunk that i got off with a mates girl friend, licked someones chin (i'd never met the girl before) and got off with a mates younger (not much younger, like 2-3 years) sister's shoulder (don't ask, i don't remember it :wacko: ). i would've kept my hands to myself on a lot of drunken occasions. i never would of smoked fags or weed.

all in all, making me a better groomed, better behaved, fitter, more well off person ^_^ . but i can't, so i'll just stick with the poor-nerd-lanky-yhetti-tramp-slob-thing that i've become, till a better offer turns up anyway lol
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Sep 22 2007, 12:38 PM
all in all, making me a better groomed, better behaved, fitter, more well off person ^_^ . but i can't, so i'll just stick with the poor-nerd-lanky-yhetti-tramp-slob-thing that i've become, till a better offer turns up anyway lol

Well, you can't stop your past hook-ups with random girls chins or friend's younger sisters' shoulders, but these are easy enough now. If these are important enough to single out as things you'd change if you could start over...why not change them now?
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past? As in what as already happened? Why would I want to go back there? If i did, the present (being the future at that time) would evaporate, making that past my new present, leaving me in an entirely differert world, as knowing what i did in my other life wouldnt matter as everything is now differant, so it wouldnt be like resetting a game, itd be like putting in a new one

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Ban Time Travel "Now." Clicky the link in my siggy (got it from numerouno :D). Time travel is baaad.... so no, I would not want to. :P Too confusing. :P

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it's just the flak i get from mates, it'll be like:

dave-"oi, cap, i swear i sin 1 o' them girls gi'in' y' the eye"
me- "oh aye dave?"
dave- "yeah, why dnt u get lick her chin, or her shoulder? you know whatever's good" :lol:
me- " <_< "

i'm talking as if i could zip about in a time machine, and change this and keep that. but that's cause i was thinkin of doctor who when i was thinking of this yesterday lol.

my life isn't that bad that i wanna start it all over. i don't think anybody does really. as i said, i'd just like to zip about as a companion in the doctor's tardis and mix things i did up a bit like :P
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But remember what happened in that episode when she tried to change her past? Didn't work, :P

Mutate; What I don't get tough is how it come Who can do whatever he wants but when Rose does something everything screws up? I mean in the episode with Satelite 5 he apparently made everything worse by putting down Satelite 5 that quickly.
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I already changed my future the first time I was in the past, turned out pretty good, so no need to change it again...

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