[raffael_de]

> A life well-lived is really what we should all hope for.

That doesn't make sense. A life however-lived implies you're dead. You cannot admire your well-lived life.

> I can’t change the past, but I can change the future.

You cannot change the future ...

Maybe you're not a native speaker. The reason why I reply is because I notice that many people fall into language traps when reasoning about something philosophical. The result of that reasoning looks good but doesn't check out and hence doesn't get you anywhere in terms of actually realizing something important.

[kakacik]

A 'life well lived' doesn't matter only at the very end of the journey, it defines quality, quantity, depth and so on of every single step along it, its just an ultimate metric to use.

I can certainly identify with similar approach, I call it 'looking at actions from my death bed', and how would I rate them and overall process of living my life'. That moment itself is largely irrelevant, the path to it means everything to me.

It lead me to many happy choices and no regrets.

[shermantanktop]

I am a native speaker. I think the language problem is on your end.

You changed the future in this thread, by responding to me with an incredibly literal reading of my comment. So I responded and now you get to read it.

So here we are in the future, having a conversation about philosophy and time’s arrow. It didn’t have to be that way, you could have made some other comment, or I could have not responded.

[raffael_de]

I don't see how you can change something that doesn't exist (yet).

[cacheyourdreams]

I don't really understand why you're being so pedantic about language here. What they said make perfect sense. One can hope to achieve a life well-lived. They didn't say anything about admiring it in retrospect.

I don't know if you're trying to make a point about predeterminism or something with your second comment. Perhaps you could clarify.