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 wrong by receiving messages from him.

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.

— Victor E. Frankl

2008.03.30 Sunday

Sending messages to your future-self is much easier.

Writing.

If you 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

3.5 Time messenger

A time messenger is someone who can send and 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 messages 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. Your 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 messages 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

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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).

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

You are in nowhere but now-here.

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2008.03.10 Monday

3.2 Now is the past of the future, the future of the past

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To get a feeling of traveling into the past, imagine you are a 22nd century person and enjoy the present technologies.

To get a feeling of traveling into the future, imagine you are a 19th century person and enjoy the present technologies.

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2008.03.04 Tuesday

Storyline 1 … to be a time traveler …

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3.1 In the beginning, …

Time traveling means traveling through time to different eras in history.

To the best knowledge of the known physical laws, time traveling is not feasible.

I was really disappointed until I started to realize that …

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3.1.1 in a sense, we are all time travellers

We are travelling into the future now.

If you want to preserve your coordinates, , in space, you can simply choose not to move. You can be static in space. You can choose not to change your position in space.

However, even if you want to preserve your time coordinate, , you cannot.

You are always moving from the past, through now, into the future.

The -coordinate in always increases.

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2008.02.26 Tuesday