Past or in the future?
If someone you could give you this option, you choose the future or past, of course you can not change, no future, nor in the past, only to travel, and be in the position old, or to see your future?,
I ll choice the past, 100%, i don t like to know my future, i am afraid, but i ll come back in the past, to try to be in few situations, when i was very happy, and see people who now are not any more in my life. happy
[question posted by icesmile]
responses and comments:
I think I would rather see the future instead of the past since I've already been there, done that. I wouldn't want to do everything all over again, eventually time would pass and I would see the future anyways. It's inevitable that the future will find its way here no matter what. [mzz663]
maybe you are right, but for me is easy to say, hard to make; when you know that will die, is like an obsession, who will be like a poison.is just my opinionsad [icesmile]
hahaha funny topic i would choose the future of course, u know why? well, if i traveled to the fuuture i will see what i am going to do then, i can avoid bad things and do good things. am i right? [floridia]
no, you are not right, you can travel in the future, but can t change something; what will be, will be, your destiny can t be changed;happy [icesmile]
For me if my destiny could not change I would travel to the past. Less people and much easier way of life. If they world keeps going they way it has been, there will not be much of a future to see anyways. [haplo32]
You can change your present and future with past help; you will know better where you make mistakes, even can t change the past, you can learn from past, and never repeat in the future; [icesmile]
I am with you and think looking into the future would be very scary.But given the opportunity I have many,many things about the past I would like to change,and even if that was not a possiblity,t would be nice to go back in the past and be with my daddy again. [erikmama]
For that I want to back and travel in the past, people who can t see any more now , mom, dad, grandparents, and never see it again, and those who came out of my life, to see clearly taking out, learn, and maybe in the future i will bring them back, in my life if i know where was my mistake.happy [icesmile]
I think I will choose to future in this situatuion. If I go back past, I must want to change something, I'm not good at self control. But if I go future, I could change anything there, I just enjoy my life ahead. If my life is terrible in future, I think I will change a little when I come back. And I really admire your opinion, I wish I could just like you, enjoy the past. I think you really like what your life now! [shan0822]
Hi,in life everything happens for a reason, nothing is coincidence, everything had to happen happened to leave room for anything else is to follow, so we must accept our past, and try to change only the future,as much as we can. No, i don t like, but i must accept my life now, and try to change something in the future and assume my past.happy [icesmile]
Hi, Ice! I'd love a brief visit to the past! I'd love to understand things better than the history books allow. Still, I'd be anxious to return to NOW! [cobrateacher]
Yes, I missing a lot, because I'm a person who does not love too many people, but the ones you love, do not forget, and do anything to bring them back, even in memories, every day....SEEMS THAT I AM VERY FAITHFUL,happy in every kind of relations. [icesmile]
If given the choice to see the past again or the future, I would choose the future. I suffer with a chronic illness that there is hope of it getting a little bit better. A little bit better would be great for me. I would be so grateful. I would just like to see if indeed things do get a little better and if there is some decrease in the pain. [sissybug1]
hi, this is a good reason to want to travel in the future, you are right [icesmile]
i choose the past too. It can let me remmber my past and let me know we should grasp the opportunity. [zzhkilled]
The past, definitely. The country (world perhaps) is getting to be progressively less free, and you are being monitored more and more each day. They didn't used to drug test people for jobs, unless they had a reason to, like you came in and you were stumbling around, they used to have to have a reason, now they don't anymore. Also, they actually used to make things in America and we were all richer and better off than we are now. [buggsy47]
this happened? in this kind of world we live? my Godsadthumbdown [icesmile]
The future is too uncertain. I think I'd want to go back in the past and see my mom again or my grandparents. [dawnald]
I am interested in Past travel, not because I necesarily believe in it. Its just that I have had to main focus besides the time I live in now. One is in the 1500's or thereabouts worked on dress, furnishings etc. I am in this Room overlooking the Docks. The people look like Doctors and Nurses, I am unsure where I fit in, its weird. But if I was asked where to get an item from in there I would know. it is weird the Room I always see exactly the same. The other is a Building in New York, which has curved windows all decorated. i would like to understand more. I am sort of Physic, and I don't get that either. [mandybeau]
Hey icesmile! I definitely wouldn't want to know the future either! What's the point if you can't change it? And what's the point of going back if you can't change the past? The only thing that makes sense is to live in the present and live each day to the fullest! I forget that sometimes and I should remember that and we all should because no one is promised tomorrow! We should all live each day to the fullest and enjoy every minute! [Opal26]
If i ll let you to change your past, for sure that your present ca t exist too, and just one minut from the past, if you can change it, this will change so many people destiny...no, you can just learn from the past, and don t make some mistakes in the present, who for sure will change your future..happywhat you say? [icesmile]
I would travel to the past, back to a time before my mother was born so that I could meet her mother. She died shortly after my mother was born so I never had the opportunity to know her. I've seen pictures and have been told about her but never knowing her has left an empty space in my heart that I've carried for many years. [spalladino]
this is the most important thing to want to travel in the past ...if i can choice, i ll choice the past for sure [icesmile]
Hi icesmile, if i was given a chance to go to either past or present, then i'll definitely choose the former, because then i can go and change the mistakes that i had commited in the past and correct it all, i'll also be able to get to meet my grandparents, as well as uncles and aunts to had expired long time back. Yeah i'll go for the past, positively. Thank you and God bless. [zkapfo123]
You can t change the past, just because you will change the past, your present don t exist any more; is simple; but you an travel in the past, and where you made mistakes, you can saw mistakes, and in the future never repeat again; you can change the future, using past mistakes.happy I am right? you can change the future when you don t know how will be; [icesmile]
I would rather see the future.. If I'm able see what's going to happen then I would be able to plan better so that when that particular instant in my life comes, I would be ready and openly accept what lies ahead.. We all fear the unknown right? but if we have a first hand knowledge on what's going to happen then we will be able to prepare for it and we wouldn't have to fear it.. [ian1979]
you can t change the future if you don t know the future; but you can change the present, and this will make some changes in your future; God gives us a destiny, but he gonna do in the bag, we must make efforts change our future, if we know the past(mistakes from the past), and we make changes now, in presenthappy [icesmile]
I would go to the future. I would learn so much more in the future then I would in the past. I like to see if a certain character has been created yet or if a non-existent invention has been invented yet. I would also use future pop culture in a media so the future in my story will be accurate. I would like to see how much things have change. With the past lots of things I enjoy won't exist yet. I don't want to repeat anything all over again. I rather learn from my mistakes then to repeat it. [spiderlizard22]
If you want travel in the future, but in my opinion is dangerous, so, if you want go in the future, you can t change something, but you can come with some informations in the present, and can change something in present, because i don t say any thing about present, so you can change present with future help...but i ll repeat, is very dangerous, because you can see that after one month you can die...and you will be disapointed, and you will lose this month too...is complicated to want to travel in the futuresad [icesmile]
It would be tough to pick in between the two. There's so many opportunities of learning and experience with the invention of time travel. It would be interesting to travel back in time to periods when the Egyptians were building the pyramids and other mystical tales that are throughout our history. It would be cool to check out Greece during the Greek Mythology period as well. [jambi462]
hi, you are right, is so intersting, to know better all this kind of things from history, but i ll choice my family history, my life history, and i will know what i must change in the present; [icesmile]
I know my past so it would be good and interesting to know what is there for me in future. There is no point visiting past as it will have collection of things , good bad and something that might disturb me as well. I would like to travel my future :) [AjaySinghBaghel]
Sometimes in our lives there are things happening that even now we do not know what was going on, can find an explanation in the past if you visualize it again; you can find there, in the past many answers to this kind of questions"why me"? [icesmile]
Would I be able to take my husband with me, or no, since he is not a part of my past before 2007? If I could take him with me, then I would want to go to the past to introduce him to my grandparents, and people who have passed on that he never got a chance to meet. [danishcanadian]
I would go back in the past. Not to travel but to change my life! Most of it! I am very disappointed in my life and how it has turned out. I would go back and take a second change. My list is long on what I would cahnge but one thing is for sre I would make my better so it would be better now! Amen! [blue65packer]
I want to travel my past. And that is already passed so I want to review my fault. But I don't want to travel my future. I have to live the future. And previewing my future I don't want to loose the test of living. if my future is already known to me what charms there will be left to live? [Aaleexix]
Definitely I will choose the past.visit then come back.Visit my childhood house with my father alive,my mother younger!Those nostalgic periods! [riverblue]
My childhood was the greatest time of my life; i want just for few minutes to do there and see all again; all, my parents, my grandparents, my friends, all... I want this so much, just for few minuteshappy [icesmile]
Hmmm. this is a hard question. Hehehe. I'm still thinking.. thinking... maybe I'll go back to the past... cause even if you said that I can't change my future, I mean just by knowing it, then I would definitely change it.. Unless after I go back I would forget everthing that I have seen and live as if nothing happened, then in that case I would definitely pick future. [Ingkingderders]
Amen to that. Only God knows what lies in our future. [Ingkingderders]
i will also go to the past and i will try to change my present day here because of to much problems which i almost give up.. [john_ronald]
You are right, somehow, in the past we made it some mistakes, if we know that answer, we will know to change our present; about future, what will be, will be, just God know.. I want return to know ...Why?confused [icesmile]
I will choose traveling in the future, I can see what i will be in the future, what will happen about my family and my life, when I go back to reality, I will take preasure of my present life and friends. [mandymandy131]
You can t...you can t change what will be, just if you come back in the past, and know all about your mistakes, about what you can change in present, to change undirectly the future;to know the future can change us in something bad for sure [icesmile]
hi.. i woul choose the past as i ve lready been in it i don't know what about my future.. i think i would enjoy the memories of the past rather than stepping onto the future getting struck up in life... [thunderbala]
Is nice to can see old friends, people from your family who are die now, when you was kid, are so many in the past who can make us to be more relaxhappy in present and hope that in the future will be more better. [icesmile]
I would obviously go and see the future to see my economic condition. If I'm a happy person, I will leave as it is, but if I will be unhappy in future, I will try to change my self. [rahulchopzy]
Can be good to live the present as last day, with intensity, if you know that in the future can be worst...but is not for me, i don t want to live with a bad future imagine, i ll chose to travel in the past; to see again,my parents, my grandparents..old friendshappy [icesmile]
Well if will have a option,i will prefer to go to my future, I just want to know what going to happen to me if it bad then definitely i will not commit that mistakes in my present, some time we just think that if we know this we can do better thing if we know that bla bla..I mean i'm excited to know how i will look after 5-6 years. [gracce]
No, i will let future just happened, and when the future will be my present, i am sure that i can take right decisions...i hope at least [icesmile]
I knew my past and what happend in the past i came across is so i would like to travel in the future bcoz I don't what wll happen next to me. This would be an amazing trip if i got the chance.Might be science could grew on this state through which the mind can travel and felt the happening of future and past again and again and get the chance to to enjoy the moment which bacame fade after the passing of time, but this will reduce the importance of time. [deep05_1982]
you are right, time is so important, at least, if technology will be more and more hight, this can be something so intersting, to can travel in the past or future, just with mind power, never know what will be...Jules Verne have so many books who was almost impossible to come true in the past, and now almost all is possible....no body know what will behappy [icesmile]
hi, my choice would be to go back in my past since it was my childhood which was the best phase of my life..i stil feel that i shud have been a child. there wer no tensions, no worries..it was all about playing, studying n getting love from all. i wud not like to go in future coz i dont wanna see what my future life holds for me.. [amirev777]
Hi, my childhood time was the best time from my life too, i want to be again with my grandparents and parents, in my childhood home, happy...maybe they will discover a time machine, this make so many people happy, just for few minutes...happy [icesmile]
I would love to see into the future. Imagine the gadgets that will be around! I am not sure I would want to live there permanently though. I think we are sort of made for our own time ,for instance our immunities and our body composition. They say that if we went back in time we might give the inhabitants all kinds of diseases that we are now immune to and I certainly wouldn't want to pick any up myself from the past or the future,or be the carrier of something now that in the future there is no immunity to (like the common cold). [pandaeyes]
you can t make changes, in the past, just because you can change present, and is possible to change so many people life; no, you can just learn from your past mistakes, can change your present, i mean don t repeat same mistakes, and let the futuhappyre bring you surprises. [icesmile]
If I were given this dilemma, I would still choose the past. But I wouldn't want to go back into history because I'd try to change some parts of the past which might make things worse now and might erase my existence. So I would not choose to go back in history and change things such as slavery, no, I would choose to go back to my time and warn myself not to do the things I did. It would be interesting to observe and see what my ancestors looked like and did, if I could take a train ride through their moments in time. But I should be forced to stay on the train and not interfere, even if I saw bad things happen. It's funny, but wouldn't it be odd that if sometime in the future we were able to go back into our past. And wouldn't it be freaky if the ghosts and nightmares that scared us as kids were really ourselves trying to warn us and keep us from making bad decisions and doing things that effect us now? [RobtheRock]
Hi icesmile, Yes. I have been working on my genealogy tree since 1973. After all those years of looking I think I found some family members. My grandfather was kidnapped when he was a small boy. So I'd like to go back and see why the lady kidnapped him, who his father and mother were, who their parents were, etc. The lady who kidnapped him had told him that we are part Cherokee Indian. Both my grandfather and the lady who kidnapped him are deceased now, so I am on my own. And do we have kings or queens on our tree. So I'd like to see what they all looked like, the kings, scoundrels, slaves, all of them because they are the reason I am here. :) [RobtheRock]
If I can choose what point in time that I travel to, then I would definitely choose the past and go back to the times with Da Vinci, Bernini, and Galileo. If I wasn't able to choose the point I would go to, then I would probably pick the future, because I would want to know whether or not the path that I've started on is the correct one or not. [imagenius128]
Honestly, no I'm not. I've lived through my history and if anything traumatic happened, then I would probably remember it just fine. It's more interesting to me to go back and meet the man who invented a helicopter before electricity was understood. The whole scientists being imprisoned thing would suck though... [imagenius128]
I think I would choose the past because my kids would be little again. And I could have my kids all over again. My kids were always my life and always made me happy and still do but I miss them being little. I loved holding my kids all the time. Now they older and sit on my lap lol. God only knows are future and I leave my future in his hands. [strawberrybaby39]
Thank you. I would rather have my life in Gods hands because I no its safer there then any place in the world. God knows what is best for everyone. We just have to listen to what he has to say to us. Sometimes we are never give him the time and sometimes we never are quiet enough to listen to him. But I trust him with my life. Have a great day. [strawberrybaby39]
I would choose to travel in the past. I miss some friends and relatives and would be happy to see them once more. I had a wonderful and happy childhood and really miss that now. It is not good to know the future because there will be no life but waiting to happen what you already know it will happen. [LadyDD]
I would like to be able to go back into the past. There are certain periods of history that I would love to spend a few weeks/months in. It would be awesome to be able to go back and witness some of the events that shaped the world... [goldeneagle]
Can I have both?Of course.This just a question.Hehe.Why? The past: -I can learn the origin of everything today and appreciate those that have make what we are today. The future: -Motivation maybe if it show great achievement of me and people I know.I can encourage them if necessary by telling what i've seen in the future that started by them today. [myguy09]
I would like to travel in the past.I want to witness the great historical events taking place in front of my eyes and i want to see the great historical and mythical characters walking,speaking and doing the great things they are being remembered for.May be i can thus realize what blunders they committed which are at the root of the problems the world is struggling to solve.Future,i think may be disgusting or furious.i would not like to see what our children would be facing. [saumitrakumar]
This is really interesting. I would go to the past when i was a small kid, when life was not so stressful and people actually cared for one another. Now the world is very different my friend and in the future i guess it will only be worse, if we don't make it better today. [sheetalnr]
Yeah, you are right Sheetalnr. There are a lot of things that is going on with our world right now. But still, I am still hoping and praying for the better. I think that would be the least thing that we can help our world right now. Before, things are really different, I may not appreciate that so much since I was so young so then but I recalled back time, yeah, they were not much poor people here in our country and there were not much people who were hungry....but right now...it became many. Hope this world will be better and not be worsen... [joannaleed]
Certainly, I will not go back into my past. I am contented with what happen to my present life and what I have in the past, made me what I am right now. And I am contented about it. I may have a lot of heartaches and situations that I've gone through in the past but still I gone through all of that and it made me a better person now and I did learned a lot from that. But I am interested to know about my future. In fact, one friend told me about a fortune teller she knows...and she told me that I should go see her. But then, I am scared, I am scared that it won't be the things that I wanted to happen in my life. There are a lot of what if that is in my mind and even though that fortune teller can answer it, still, I don't think I will be happy about it. So, right now, maybe I will just stay in the present and just let time go on for me to know about it. happyhappy [joannaleed]