future in the past:

the other night Iwas listening to my old but loved CD´s when I found one by No Doubt.
I played it and my voice could easily follow the lyrics. thanks to that, I could infer that my memory still works.
one of the songs in the album is called "simple kind of life". it talks about the regrets that singer experiments after a broke up. there is an interesting line there that says: "if we met tomorrow for the very first time, would it start all over again?, would I try to make you mine?"
I kept thinking on that line, and its content. then I sat in silence and I tried to focused on the words. then I arrive to a conclusion: leaving the romantic perspective aside (whici I´m not interested in, today), the issue for me could be: given tha chance to know and see the future, what would be our attitude like?
I mean, day after day we complain of our lives and the pathetic way we live them. how many times have we wished to be able to see the future in order to avoid making mistakes that hurt us and others so much? life would be really easier if we had that precious advantage. but wuold it be better?
the answer is, of course, not only personal but also subjective. on many ocassions the results wolud be so different with that slight but crucial power.
however, there are other times, when it´s nice to see and live every new day as a complete ignorant, finding new paths in the map of life; recognizing new faces among thousands of them; exploring new possibilities in this game called life that can be as safe as dangerous.