Sometimes, you have done something you regret. You want to go to the past to undo what you have done. You cannot do so as you are already your-now-self. You cannot become your-past-self anymore. You cannot send a message to your-past-self.

Sometime in the future, your-future-self would have done something he regrets. He wants to go to his past to undo what he has done. He cannot do so as he is already his-now-self. He cannot become his-past-self anymore.

However, YOU can help him. His past-self is YOU. His past-self is your now-self. You can know what he has done wrongly by receiving the messages from him.

Victor E. Frankl:
“Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now. ”

2008.03.30 Sunday

Sending messages to your future-self is much easier.

Writing.

If your want to send a message to your ten-year-later-self, write it down. Put the message in a drawer. Do not read it until ten years later.

This is the meaning of writing.

2008.03.28 Friday

Extend yourself

To meet your past and future self now, just extend you to other people, e.g. your brother, your grandpa …

The method is to extend your self beyond your personal-self. When you see your younger brother, you may regard him as your past-self. When you see an old person, you may regard him as your future-self.

Learning from other people’s experience can emulate the effect of receiving messages from your future-self.

2008.03.27 Thursday

3.5 Time messenger

A time messenger is someone who can send the receive letters to and from the past and to and from the future.

You are a time messenger.

3.5.1 send messages to your past self

You cannot send message into the past. Even if you can, you cannot receive it, for you have already become your now-self. Only your past-self can receive the message, your now-self cannot.

3.5.2 receive messages from your future self 接收來自未來的訊息

You can receive the message sent by your future self because you are your now-self now.

What if your future self did not send the message you want to receive?
That is nonsense. You are always creating your own future-self. You future-self is under your control.

How to receive messages from your-future-self?

Vision: 先知先覺 洞悉先機

To receive message from your future-self, you need vision.

Vision is a function of common sense. Common sense is a function of vast knowledge and creativity.

How to get such knowledge and creativity?

1. Read

2. Observe

3. Experience

4. Create

Then imagine yourself as your ten-year-later self. If you are yourself-in-ten-year-later, what would you want to tell your now-self?

2008.03.20 Thursday

3.4 Living in now-here, eliminate the passage of time

If you have always unleashed all the potential of time, you will not fear the passage of time. Since rather than being gone, time is transformed to something more valuable.

Just like when you have bought something that deserves much more than its cost, you would not feel that you have lost the money.

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2008.03.11 Tuesday

3.3 You are nowhere but nowhere

People always have an escape-character.

We often think that the past is better than now (good-old-days thinking); or the future will be better than now (procrastination).

Think in either way is not useful,
for you are always here, you are always in now.

You are in nowhere but now-here.

2008.03.10 Monday