If you could look into the future, would you want to know how the rest of your life plays out?

CindyLouWho

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If there was a way to predict the future and find out how your life would play out until the end, would you do it?

I think I would like to know, betting optimistically on the good things yet to come.
 

No way, because if everything negative that I saw was 100% unavoidable, I would go goofy trying to avoid it, anyway!
 

No I wouldn't. First I would have trouble trusting that what I was seeing in the future was actually true, and would indeed happen, plus I think I'd rather just cherish life and have the pleasure of living it naturally good with the bad.
 
Yes I think I would like to know. It might make a difference about selling my house then trying to figure out where to go. If I knew I would only live another 10 years say, I would probably just hunker down where I am. I would be broke by then, because I have to take money out of savings each month to make the mortgage payment.....but if I'm dead I don't care if I'm broke!! :shrug:
 
No! I might find out the time left is short, and so I might give up dreaming, and planning for the future, and learning new things. Instead, just hunker down, get things in order, and waste my time waiting. The time might seem to go slower that way, but it would be miserable to me. Although it would be hard to resist taking a peak.
 
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Is there something wrong with living it as it comes?

CindyLouWho said:
If there was a way to predict the future and find out how your life would play out until the end, would you do it?

I think I would like to know, betting optimistically on the good things yet to come.
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There are a few things we can predict of course, like death and taxes, (which doesn't sound too appealing for any of us), but nonetheless is there anything wrong with living life as it comes "for the first time"?
 
I'm happy to live in the moment but I have anticipated various scenarios for the short and long term, including my own death. I'm comfortable with the most likely possibilities and don't need to know the as yet undiscovered future.
 
As I’m closer to the end than I am to the beginning of my life, I think it would be practical to know what’s coming my way so that I could get my head round it and make plans accordingly
 
NancyNGA said:
No! I might find out the time left is short, and so I might give up dreaming, and planning for the future, and learning new things. Instead, just hunker down, get things in order, and waste my time waiting. The time might seem to go slower that way, but it would be miserable to me. Although it would be hard to resist taking a peak.
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I agree with you -- if I knew something awful was going to happen I'd waste my time worrying about it instead of enjoying life.
 
I will be 75 soon and to me that is a long life. I expect to live another 10 to 15 years but I will likely spend the last 5 in a nursing home. I have prepared myself for this eventuality by undergoing 4 joint replacements - 1 hip, 1 knee and 2 shoulders - so that I won't be racked with pain and will be able to stand, walk and dress myself. I am keeping my teeth is repair and attending to my skin cancers periodically. I will need cataract surgery fairly soon. If I am in good nick apart from the dementia that seems to afflict my family, I won't have too hard a time living in a home. I will be as happy as I can be because I do not fear this last stage of life.

Until then I mainly live day to day. Next year I may buy a gopher or a new car or both but I'm not rushing in. The first quarter of 2018 will be soon enough to think about these matters. My future will unfold without me worrying about it.
 
Don’t much care
Done enough to give most cardiac arrest many times over
Won’t bother me to go out anytime from now on
Ever day is dessert (‘pie) from here on out

Now, if I so happen to live another decade or two, I’d rather be racked with pain t’ward the end
Death
Would be a looked forward to relief
 
I don’t have any hopes and dreams so it would be interesting to know what’s coming my way and make plans to deal with it
 
I kinda would like to know so that I could make plans , as you have said Wren, but on the flip side of the coin, I'm like Butterfly, who would spend the rest of my life worried sick about it...

That said, if I was told I was going to get a horrible disease or be likely to get a lot of pain from some ailment, perhaps knowing in advance I could search for preventative cures...

Overall..Probably I'd rather not know...
 
I wouldn't want to know. For me, part of life is not knowing what lies ahead, good or bad. If I knew what was going to happen in the future I would feel as though I cheating" on life in a certain way.
 

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