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Time machine I hear all the time people talking about having a time machine. They would like to travel to the past to change those things that they wish they hadn't done. Other people would use the time machine to see the future... A number of lottery, what they will have, how they will be... This is not possible. We can't change what we have done and we can't see the future. However, we can learn from our mistakes, we can see the past through our thoughts and we can build the future. The future is not already written. We have a control on what will happen in our lives. We build a pathway with every act. But something important is that we need to know where we want to go to, otherwise we are walking in circles. But if we have an specific goal and we work hard we will get it sooner or later. The beginning of the pathway can be fun, but it will become harder and harder, for sure. That is the moment when everybody gives up.

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Time machine

All the time I hear people talking about having a time machine. They would like to travel back to the past to change those things that they wish they hadn't done. Other people would use the time machine to see into the future... A winning lottery number, what they will have, how they will be...

This is not possible. We can't change what we have done and we can't see into the future. However, we can learn from our mistakes, we can see the past through our thoughts and we can build the future.

The future is not already written. We have some control over what will happen in our lives. We build a pathway with every act. But something important is that we need to know where we want to go to, otherwise we are walking in circles.
But if we have a specific goal and we work hard, we will get there sooner or later.
The beginning of the pathway can be fun, but it will become harder and harder, for sure. That is the moment when everybody gives up.

 

Hi Agustin

Very well written.  And thought-provoking.

A couple of very small amendments above and some alternative phrasings below. 

I hope they are useful.

Good luck for the future!

 

...have control over something...

...where we want to get to

...we can control our future to some extent 

...we can influence what will happen in our lives

specific goal..we will achieve it sooner or later

 

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