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If you could time travel, would you rather go into the past or the future?

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Ysa9257 · 22-25, F
Future. What's the point in reliving the past? There's no point in trying to change anything in the past. Can't change other people's actions and behaviour. There's no point in trying. When people have made up their minds to do something, you can't sway them. I guess I'd rather see how the future plays out.
LyricalOne · F
@Ysa9257 Not necessarily to change it, just getting to live in a different time period.
Footballstar · 26-30, M
@Ysa9257 whats the point in seeing whats coming? You can't change that either and all it will do is ruin everything in between for you one way or another
Ysa9257 · 22-25, F
@Footballstar Not necessarily. I don't want to see everything that happens. I just want to know the important stuff. Like, will I be happy in the future? Will certain things in my life work out? Is there any hope? Cause right now, the present is a little bleak. I don't know, does that make sense?
Footballstar · 26-30, M
@Ysa9257 yeah but if you go and see that you'll be depressed then thats probably what will make you depressed, if you see you have 2 kids then what if you have two kids really quickly and want another? Knowing the future is nice in theory but when you think about it it can only be bad news
Ysa9257 · 22-25, F
@LyricalOne I don't really know which time period. Because I don't know if you can tell by my photo, but I'm a mixed kid. And we weren't exactly liked in lot of time periods. And you can't rewrite history.
Footballstar · 26-30, M
@Ysa9257 the post never says youll live where you'll travel to, you could just be a ghost and watch
Ysa9257 · 22-25, F
@Footballstar How will seeing if life works out make me depressed? I don't want to know about things like kids and marriage, I just want to know if I'll be in a good place. Like emotionally. I know people always say that 'time heals all wounds' and 'things won't be terrible forever' but that's not true for a lot of people. So, will I be ok in the future? Would I even make it to the future?
Ysa9257 · 22-25, F
@Footballstar Yeah, but it also never says that I could just be a ghost and watch from afar either. I wouldn't exactly want to test it and see for myself.
Footballstar · 26-30, M
@Ysa9257 but what if you're not happy in the future you see? Youre not okay? Then thats your whole life ruined by the fact at some point it'll be a bit bad.
Footballstar · 26-30, M
@Ysa9257 well as it doesn't say you get to decide which it is
Ysa9257 · 22-25, F
@Footballstar Well gee thanks. There goes hope! 😂 I would like to think and hope to see that I'd be in a better place than I am in now. Unfortunately I can't see into the future. Here's to hoping it's better than the present.
Footballstar · 26-30, M
@Ysa9257 hope is better than knowing for certain if knowing means tossing a coin to pick effectively, at least with hope you can decide
Ysa9257 · 22-25, F
@Footballstar I'm not so sure. Then again, I can hope for a lot of things and who's to say they'll come true? But all this doesn't really matter, does it? Can't see into the future anyway.