If you could know your future would you want to?

[dk168]

Having just booked all my monthly hair appointment up to February 2022 (yes, really ), I would like to believe I have a future for at least that long!

I have also planned the big holidays 5 years ahead up to 2025.

I do not want to know what lies ahead in my future in details, however, I am hoping that I have at least 5 more years if not 10 ahead of me.

DK

 

[Missy]

Having just booked all my monthly hair appointment up to February 2022 (yes, really ), I would like to believe I have a future for at least that long!

I have also planned the big holidays 5 years ahead up to 2025.

I do not want to know what lies ahead in my future in details, however, I am hoping that I have at least 5 more years if not 10 ahead of me.

DK

I wish that for you as well. IIRC you are around the same age as I am and I wish for you many more happy decades ahead. We are still young and hopefully we have at least a few more happy and healthy decades ahead. And yassss for all your fun vacations you have to look forward to. I think you will enjoy them very much! That is my prediction for your future.

 

[dk168]

I wish that for you as well. IIRC you are around the same age as I am and I wish for you many more happy decades ahead. We are still young and hopefully we have at least a few more happy and healthy decades ahead. And yassss for all your fun vacations you have to look forward to. I think you will enjoy them very much! That is my prediction for your future.

Thanks for the good wishes, likewise, I would like to wish you much happiness in the years to come!

DK

 

[Austina]

Good or bad, I would absolutely want to know.

 

[MamaBee]

I think I’m going to have to change my answer. My son, David, lives with us and needs someone to look after him when we’re gone. As much as I wouldn’t want to know I would have to so I could plan for him.

 

[Missy]

Good or bad, I would absolutely want to know.

I think I’m going to have to change my answer. My son, David, lives with us and needs someone to look after him when we’re gone. As much as I wouldn’t want to know I would have to so I could plan for him.

And therein lies the dilemma. I vacillate between yes and no. Between knowledge and blissful (is it blissful?) ignorance. Pay the price now to perhaps improve the future for us and our loved ones. I envy those who can see yes or no so clearly. I used to be much more a black and white right vs wrong person. No longer. All I see are shades of gray. :/

 

[Missy]

Good or bad, I would absolutely want to know.

I love how clear you are in this. You’re an individual with strong convictions and confidence. I love that.

 

[bling_dream19]

I would want to know. If we knew the future, could we change it? That would be my only benefit in knowing. If I couldn't change it, I wouldn't want to know because I would agonize and it would destroy my present.

 

[Austina]

I am a firm believer in what will be, will be, so I say yes on the basis that I can’t change the future, but feel that I could deal with whatever it holds better, if I know @missy

 

[mellowyellowgirl]

Absolutely provided the future cannot be changed. I like to plan and I think knowing would be great for me. There would be time to accept things which is personally very useful for me.

It better not be one of those loops though. Where the future happens because you know and then you wonder if it would have happened if you didn't know or were you destined to know and it was all inevitable anyway.

 

[Tartansparkles]

Absolutely provided the future cannot be changed. I like to plan and I think knowing would be great for me. There would be time to accept things which is personally very useful for me.

It better not be one of those loops though. Where the future happens because you know and then you wonder if it would have happened if you didn't know or were you destined to know and it was all inevitable anyway.

And then what if you only saw the future up to a point and a bad thing happened but you didn't know that the day after the bad thing a REALLY good thing happened but because you took steps to avoid the bad thing happening changed the future and the good thing then didn't happen either. Now I have to go Google the grandfather paradox

 

[Missy]

I am a firm believer in what will be, will be, so I say yes on the basis that I can’t change the future, but feel that I could deal with whatever it holds better, if I know @missy

Reminds me of that song.

Que Sera Sera:

 

[icy_jade]

Yes, so that I can make plans. Perhaps if I’m going to die next week I’ll rather spend some time putting my things in order and spend more time with my family for example, than to be stuck at work.

 

[GliderPoss]

Hmmm it’s a great question! I think I would want to know some things like career, love life and health - stuff I can affect & improve; but not others like when my parents are going to pass away. Couldn’t bear living with a “ticking clock” like that!

 

[Karl_K]

You can go ahead in time just not your own time.
Time is relative, if you stand 5 feet in front of someone both looking at a mountain in the distance ahead of you.
Your seeing the future of the mountain relative to the person behind you who will see it in a tiny fraction of time after you.
They are seeing the mountains past relative to you seing the mountains future relative to them..
The difference is ~5 nanoseconds.

Using sound you can even be further apart in time relative to the sound reaching a person 5 feet beyond you.
Why?

 

[Missy]

You can go ahead in time just not your own time.
Time is relative, if you stand 5 feet in front of someone both looking at a mountain in the distance ahead of you.
Your seeing the future of the mountain relative to the person behind you who will see it in a tiny fraction of time after you.
They are seeing the mountains past relative to you seing the mountains future relative to them..
The difference is ~5 nanoseconds.

Using sound you can even be further apart in time relative to the sound reaching a person 5 feet beyond you.
Why?

Have you ever read Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman? A fascinating book about about time, relativity and physics. It demonstrates the relationship each human being has to time and spiritually affirms Einstein's theory of relativity. It's an enjoyable and captivating read.

 

[luv2sparkle]

I would probably want to know. I guess the premise is, if you knew you might be able to change things. In the very least prepare.

I have never really liked surprises. I think I am a closet control freak.