What lies ahead...

If there was an opportunity for me to travel into the future and take a look at what happens in my life, I think I would be either be filled with excitement or scared or possibly both. The idea of looking into the future and find out what is coming my way sounds tempting. Will everything work out for me? Will my dreams become reality? who would still be in my life? Would I be someone worth remembering? But then again, will I be ready for what I find.

Say I went to the future, and found out that people do not remember me in good words, I would most likely feel really sad, maybe even confused trying to figure out where it was that I went wrong. It would be not be easy for anyone to accept being seen as a villain in others' tale or would be happy to know that people will still view them in an opposite light after all the things they did or the efforts they made to be good.

It's natural for people to want to be liked or understood by others. But the thing is, not everyone would understand you. Some will judge you from a distance and others would only see one version of you, the one they have made up in their heads. And the more I think about it, I'm beginning to understand that, in a way, knowing too much about what's going to happen in the future might possibly rob one of the calmness and tranquility of the 'now'. There is, sometimes, something peaceful in not knowing. Sometimes, not having the full picture gives us the freedom to just live without pressure or fear.

Would I want to change the future after seeing that? No. I don't think I would change anything because who's to say that by trying to fix one thing, I'm not making something else worse? An attempt to change the future may create more issues than it is supposed to solve.

I'd rather come back to now and live my life the best way I can. I'll be kind whenever I can, be honest with myself and others, do good, stay true to who I am and leaving the rest alone. I won't do it out of the desire to be remembered in good words but because that's the type of person I would like to be regardless of how others choose to remember me. Trying to rewrite the future would be like trying to fight something that never should have been fought in the first place.

We sometimes can become overly concerned about how we will be perceived by others in the future, rather than realising that we cannot completely control the future as much as may believe we can. Others will have their own stories about us and we cannot choose for them how to view us. There are still people who would think you proud just for being quiet, think you don't care when you're just tired, and think you as weak when you're actually just being kind.

If I did time-travelled to the future and find out that I have not been remembered in good ways, it will only inspire me to live my life right now with intention, rather than change who I am. I'll not let worries affect me because the future will come, whether I worry about it or not.

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