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Enjoy your life whatever will be “it's not enough even though if you have time machine to change your past.. but you just need your hand to change your future.. :)” that is my last facebook status.. you can guess why I write like that.. of course because we know,, forgetting past is not as easy as turning the palm of the hand.. we can’t push it all aside easily.. yah but willy nilly the show must go on.. we must face the future not past.. sometimes I imagine if I have time machine I wanna change several thing of my past,, because I feel if I do different thing may be It will be better.. but who know..? I remember someone have told me about some story : there is some story from Tiongkok the old farmer have an old horse for work on the farm. Someday the horse was running away lost in mountains.. and when all of the farmer’s neighbors feel sad and concerned to his fate, the old farmer said “bad fate? good fate? Who knows..?” I week later the horse come back with herd of wild horses from mountains and now his neighbors congratulate to him and said “hey old farmer.. your fate is so lucky” and again the farmer said “bad fate? good fate? Who knows..?” Next time when the farmer’s son try to tame one of that wild horse he fall off and get broken foot. Everyone and all of his neighbors feel sad and concerned to him.. but the farmer still have same words “bad fate? good fate? Who know..?” Several weeks later a group of soldiers come to that village and list all healthy youth to go with them do some war.. when the soldier come to the farmer’s home.. her son was ill he is broken leg.. then the soldier don’t list him.. again her neighbor said “what a lucky you are.. your son still on your home and not join on the war” and the farmer still with same word, “bad fate? good fate? Who know..?” Wisdom we get here is whatever bad things occurred on the past.. it’s no meant you get bad fate.. because bad fate on the past may be as stepping stone to make you lucky on the future... so keep grateful and enjoy your life whatever will be… :)

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"Enjoy your life whatever it will be"

 

a more natural way of saying this would be:

No matter what/whatever comes, enjoy your life

 

“it's not enough even though it would not have been enough even if you have had  a time machine to change your past.. (this is a complicated structure, i believe it's a mixed conditional) but you just need your hand to change your future.. :)”

That is my last facebook status.. you can guess why would I would write like that.. we know of course because we know,, that forgetting past is not as easy as turning the palm of the your hand.. we can’t easily push it all aside easily..
yeah but willy nilly the show must go on.. we must face the future, not the past..

Sometimes I imagine if I have had a time machine I wanna would want to change several things of my past *(present conditional), because I feel if I do had done something differently thing maybe be it/things will be would have been better.. but who knows... **(perfect conditional)?

I remember someone have told telling me about some (you generally cannot use "some" for abstract things) this story :

There is some a story from Tiongkok about the an old farmer (this is the first time you're speaking about the farmer, therefore you should use "an" instead of "the"; you can use "the" afterwards ) who have had an old horse for work on the farm. Someday One day the horse was running away and got lost in the mountains ("the" is necessary because the story refers to certain mountains, not just any mountains). and When all of the farmer’s neighbors feel felt sad and concerned to about his fate, the old farmer said “bad fate luck? good fate luck? Who knows/Who cares.. ("who" is considered 3rd person that's why the verb needs to have "s")?”

 


I A week later the horse come came back with a herd of wild horses from the mountains and now his neighbors were congratulating to him and said saying “hey old farmer.. you're fate is so lucky” and again the farmer said “bad fate luck? good fate luck? Who knows..?”

Next time when the farmer’s son tried to tame one of those the wild horse, he fall fell off and get got his foot broken foot. Everyone and all of his neighbors feel felt sad and concerned to about him.. but the farmer still have had the same words response for them “bad fate luck? good fate luck? Who knows..?”

Several weeks later a group of soldiers come came to that village and listed all of the healthy youth to go with them do some to war.. When one of the soldier come came to the farmer’s home.. her his son was ill and his leg is was broken leg.. then that's why the soldier don’t didn't list him.. again her his neighbors said “what a lucky man you are.. your son is still on your at home and did not have to join on the war” and the farmer still had with the same word response, “bad fate? good fate luck? Who knows..?”

 

When you're telling a story you need to be consistent and remember to always use the past tense.


Wisdom we get here is comes from whatever/all of the bad things that occurred to us on in the past.. it’s no meant you get bad fate there is no such thing as bad luck.. because bad fate luck on in the past may be might have been as a stepping stone to for making you lucky on in the future...

so keep being grateful and enjoy your life whatever will be  comes/happens… :)

 

When it comes to telling stories or speculating about past and present English can be a little confusing because the grammar is complicated. I know that in Indonesian you don't have the distinction between tenses, unfortunately English is not as straightforward. Good effort though! Let me know if there's anything I can explain in more detail. 

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