I often hear people saying that they wish they can tell the future. I then look at them and think that I guess it would be cool to be able to do this, but I also think there are ways that it wouldn’t be that great. I believe that you need to learn from your mistakes, and that’s what life is all about. If you don’t experience the consequences from an action, you really won’t ever know what if feels like to suffer with a bad choice. I’m also not even sure that people would do anything much different with their life, even if they knew what was going to happen. Say someone who smokes cigarettes is told that they will get cancer in ten years. Would this make them quit? I doubt it. With most choices in life, you know what the possible consequences are. It’s just up to you to decide if those risks are worth taking. I truly don’t believe that knowing the future would help many people make better choices.