If you were to live your life again, would you make the same mistakes?
I tend to think you would, unless you knew then what you know now.
But of course that could not happen, it would like going back in time, which could not happen.
So as you learn by your mistakes, I tend to think, that in your life, you have learned.
This should make you a better person and mean you have progressed.
So when you die, your spirit will go to the after life, with more knowledge, which in turn means you have advanced.
Any comment, do you agree, or is this just a rubbish question?
2007-12-11 02:56:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I could not agree more... I love to live a life without regret, but that does not mean not making mistakes...
I feel i have defiantly become a better person for the mistakes I have made... And I love that... I love to constantly learn and change and better myself as a person.. One of the hardest ways to do this is by making mistakes, but some things cannot be learnt by simply reading a book or taking advice, it simply has to be lived though....
I hope you are well :)
xox
2007-12-11 03:02:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question is a result of conditioning. You have been told that these things are important i.e. being better, gaining knowledge, the after life. You are not stopping to question whether or not these thing you were told are important are actually important.
The same influence that has demanded that you care about these ideas has failed to define what 'life' is. How can you expect to get anything from something that can't even give you the most basic answer but yet continues to demand that you pursue 'knowledge'?
Why worry about the past? It is an imagined memory now.
Life is what you are not what happens.
2007-12-11 03:43:17 · answer #2 · answered by @@@@@@@@ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would make different mistakes. I would though develop and use the very powerful mind tools of the late 20th C ie. Power learning, NLP, Life Coaching and the like....
2007-12-11 03:02:23 · answer #3 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you are right. We would be doomed to repeat the mistakes, without the knowledge we gained.
TOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD
I really would like to change a couple of those decisions
2007-12-11 03:11:42 · answer #4 · answered by Me again 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would do everything differently. Never marry, no children.
2007-12-11 03:11:25 · answer #5 · answered by sandra b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd have fewer imaginary problems.
2007-12-11 03:34:27 · answer #6 · answered by DR V 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋