Or.....do you think you would have made a different mistake after that "correction" and be in the same boat that you are in now?
2007-01-26 21:04:07 · 15 answers · asked by anybody 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Cool question. You must be a born philosopher. I prefer to stay in unknowing, but the process of fixing a mistake would be fascinating. I think once you went back you'd have to say you had a new life. And whether or not it would have equal mistakes to bring you to the same place of undoing is really unknowable. The question really is whether or not outside agencies effect the outcome of our lives and whether or not we learn and react to events in fundamental ways that change us. If they do, then each potential path after a correction would be different, unless the agency keeps acting in the same way over and over again.
Are you hung up with a "mistake" or just like to think about interesting questions? You might take a cue from jazz, where there never is a mistake, you just move into the next response, staying in the NOW.
2007-01-26 21:31:59 · answer #1 · answered by Wave 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
LEARNING from a mistake in the past is the Only thing that makes a difference in living a better life Now. Life is just a little more complex and fragile than a Disney film.
2007-01-26 21:17:35 · answer #2 · answered by mack_cali 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I were given the opportunity to go back to my past I wouldn't change anything. Yes, I've made many mistakes, but I wouldn't be the same person that I am today without those mistakes, those flaws, and what I have learned from those mistakes. I am who I am, without those mistakes I would be unrecognizable to myself.
2007-01-26 21:42:31 · answer #3 · answered by third_syren_of_seduction 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
These are moot points since we can never really know.
But there is definitely a mistake I would correct if I could. But whether or not it would make my life better now - that is of course, impossible to know. (The Road Not Taken)
2007-01-27 02:37:25 · answer #4 · answered by concernedjean 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No cause my life has been great for the last few years and fixing something I did in the past would change my timeline and wouldn't be where I am today. You know the old cause and effect thing.
2007-01-26 22:25:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unsure... mistakes is for us to learn.. if we could back to the past and fix it, it means we never make any mistake and never learn
2007-01-26 22:20:27 · answer #6 · answered by sakura_ch4n 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think we learn from our mistakes and that is what makes us the people we are today. we accomplish nothing from regret except wasting time. rather than think of ways you could have done something different, focus on how you can learn from what it is that you did do and be a better person because of it.
2007-01-26 21:13:22 · answer #7 · answered by Aaron 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If every time somebody thought "oh, I wish I hadn't done.........." and our past was changed, then we woudn't care how we acted in front of people because we could go back and "edit" it any time we wanted. Anyway we learn from our mistakes. So I woudn't change my memories/past because life woudn't be much better, in my opinion.
2007-01-26 21:21:34 · answer #8 · answered by tammy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it depends.some mistakes should nt be changed as one learns from it and makes one wht they are but then again changing some mistakes could change your life but in sum cases,that would mahe things worse or things cud result in the same way.
2007-01-27 03:33:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
uh huh. although im pretty sure wit myself dat even though i've made lotsa mistakes in the past, without em, i wouldnt hav so many memories 2 look back on ((:
2007-01-26 21:12:12 · answer #10 · answered by EmoRock; o.O 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋