Looking into the future
By TerryZ
@TerryZ (22076)
United States
December 11, 2006 2:50pm CST
If you could look into the future and see how your life is going to turn out. Would you?
7 responses
@tentwo67 (3382)
• United States
28 Dec 06
I don't know if I would make this choice or not. I think that it's better to not know some things. It's kind of like the concept I've heard in song of whether you would have chosen to love someone if you could know at the beginning that the relationship would ultimately end badly. There's a beautiful Trisha Yearwood song called "I Would Have Loved You Anyway" that speaks to that theme very eloquently. It makes me think of the man I thought was the love of my life way before I had met my husband. The relationship ended very badly and yet there was such beauty and such great love that I still would have chosen to love him anyway, I think, but I don't know if I really want to be in that position.
I wonder if the act of looking into the future could change your future? If you did happen to see something in your future that you didn't like, could you try to make different decisions to position yourself for a different outcome? Kind of like the movie "Back to the Future" where different elements in one time period change the ultimate outcome of the future.
It's a very interesting question.
@ndraj_2006 (1422)
• India
11 Dec 06
If i could see my future, I could see some others also with me. so it never going to happen & it should not happen.
If we know what happens tommorrow. we will not work today if i am becoming millionaire tommorow. if I am going to die tommorow I will start crying today.
so it should not happen.Future should always be a Secret.
@silkkat (231)
• Canada
11 Dec 06
I don't think that I would like to see the future. Yes, it would be nice to see when good things were going to happen especially when life gets you down. I wouldn't like to know when something bad was going to happen. Of course knowing when a loved one was going to pass would be bitter sweet. It would be great to know so you could accomplish everything you can with that person but the knowing would kill me. I think that you should just live everyday to your fullest and happiness and worry about the future when it gets there.
@tbomb2002 (269)
• United States
11 Dec 06
No way would I want to see how my life is going to turn out. That's like reading the last page of a great novel before you even start. What if you were disappointed by what you saw? You would either have to spend the rest of your days depressed, because you knew what was coming...or you would be doing things to try to change the outcome, and then seeing your future would have really been a waste of time, because the things you were doing to change the outcome WOULD change the outcome and the future that you saw would not really happen at all. Did that just make any sense? LOL
@Devinarun (387)
• United States
12 Dec 06
well the curiosity still remains but maybe i will not do that as i want it to be a suspense or a surprise.but i guess the best will be to keep quite and take things as tehy come.









