When the Past Becomes the Only Force Shaping the Present
Human beings often live while carrying within themselves a silent hope that tomorrow is capable of repairing what yesterday damaged, and that the future is an open space where they can rewrite their lives however they wish. Therefore, they spend years chasing the idea of change, believing that willpower alone is enough to break the chains of the past and begin again.
But what if this very hope is nothing more than an illusion?
What if every attempt at correction is merely another result produced by the past itself? What if the future, which we await as a new beginning, is nothing more than the past wearing a different appearance?
This is the idea that may seem harsh, yet it deserves contemplation.
The Illusion of Repair
For a long time, I believed that human beings were capable of repairing things. I believed they could stop the movement of their lives toward a different destiny and reshape themselves regardless of circumstances.
But the deeper I went into reflection, and the more I tried to calculate the factors that govern existence, I found myself arriving at one conclusion:
It is already too late.
This does not mean a rushed despair, nor an easy surrender, but rather a conclusion reached after exhausting all possible alternatives.
Going backward has a cost that no one can bear.
The problem is not that we do not want to return; the problem is that returning itself is impossible.
The Past Never Dies
There is an English phrase that says:
"Whatever happened in the past never dies."
It summarizes a very profound idea.
The past does not end simply because its time has passed; rather, it continues through its effects.
Everything that happened yesterday continues to operate within the present, then moves into the future, making the future merely an extension of a long chain of previous causes.
That is why repair often appears impossible, because you are not trying to fix the problem itself; you are trying to fix the result of thousands of results that came before it.
The Future Is Not the Opposite of the Past
Human beings believe that the future is different from the past.
But upon reflection, they do not find that to be true.
The future appears different only in its form, but in its essence, it is a continuation of what came before.
It is a seductive reflection that gives you the feeling that something new is being born, while the reality is that what is being born is only the past appearing in another form.
Therefore, hope often becomes merely an attempt to escape from the past, rather than a way to truly move beyond it.
Nothing Is Born Now
We often speak about the present.
But does anything truly come into existence in this very moment?
Everything we see now is a direct result of what came before.
The body is not the child of this moment.
The psyche is not the child of this moment.
Relationships are not the children of this moment.
Even our thoughts are not the children of this moment.
They are all extensions of paths that began before we became aware of them.
Therefore, the present appears to be merely a point where the results of the past emerge, not a place where things are created for the first time.
Change... Is It Really Change?
No one rejects freedom.
And no one dislikes the idea of their life becoming better.
But the real question is not:
Do we love change?
The real question is:
Does change truly exist?
A person may change their job, their city, their habits, or their appearance, yet they continue moving within the same system that produced them.
Therefore, change often becomes just another mechanism through which the past preserves itself.
The form changes, while the essence remains the same.
When Is It Too Late?
Someone may ask:
When exactly is it too late?
The answer is not related to a specific moment in your life.
Rather, the point of no return begins from the moment the chain of causes that created you began.
To simplify the idea, we could say that everything you are today is the result of a very long path that existed before your personal existence.
Your height, your appearance, your predispositions, and even the environment in which you were born all came from causes that preceded them.
Then those causes came from other causes, and so the chain continues.
Therefore, the question "When is it too late?" extends back to the beginning of the chain itself, not to a single moment within your life.
The Human Being as Continuation, Not Beginning
When a person looks at themselves, they feel that they are the starting point.
But the truth revealed by this perspective is the complete opposite.
The human being is not an independent beginning, but rather a small intersection within a vast chain of relationships and causes.
They are a continuation of what came before, not a separation from it.
From here emerges the feeling that the past is not merely a memory that ended, but a force that continues to operate in every moment of the present.
Therefore, the future, no matter how different it appears, seems to be merely another chapter of the same story.
Determinism... When Everything Becomes a Result of What Came Before
If the past does not die, and if the present is nothing but its continuation, then the next question becomes even deeper:
Does spontaneity truly exist in this universe?
The more we contemplate how things are formed, the more spontaneity seems to gradually disappear, until it almost vanishes completely.
Not because human beings have lost the ability to choose, but because every choice appears to be the result of an earlier choice.
Every cause returns to a cause before it, until the entire universe becomes a continuous chain of causal relationships, with no link existing independently from the others.
Nothing Exists Separately from Its Past
A person may think that some things were born now.
But the truth is that everything they see began long before this moment.
The nose they carry, their skin color, their height, and even many aspects of their personality are not products of this moment.
They are results of a long history.
Someone may say that the environment changes a person.
But the environment itself did not appear from nothing.
It too is the result of previous factors, and the existence of a person within that environment was not separate from the other causes that led them there.
Thus, every element of life becomes connected to other elements, until it becomes impossible to find anything that can be said to have begun by itself.
We Do Not Create the Moment... We Arrive at It
When I sit now and speak, it appears as though I have chosen this moment by my own will.
But upon reflection, the picture appears different.
My existence here, my sitting in this place, the words I say, and the circumstances that allowed this meeting to happen are all results of the intersection of countless physical, social, psychological, and historical factors.
They are not the result of a single cause, but rather the outcome of an enormous number of forces that met at one point and produced this moment.
Therefore, the human being appears closer to being a point of intersection than a point of beginning.
Is Free Will Truly Independent?
We often speak about free will as though it were an independent force standing outside the world.
But where does this independence actually appear?
If the weather changed, many decisions would change.
If the electricity were cut off, our daily routines would be altered.
If the place, the people, or the circumstances changed, our choices would also change.
Every decision appears to be influenced by a vast network of factors operating at the same time.
Therefore, it becomes difficult to speak of a will that functions separately from the world that contains it.
The human being does not move alone; all the circumstances that shaped them move with them.
We Are the Result of Infinite Accumulations
What we consider a personal decision may, in reality, be the result of countless struggles.
The struggle of genes.
The struggle of society.
The struggle of upbringing.
The struggle of environment.
The struggle of history.
The struggle of ideas.
All these forces operate simultaneously, then produce a single decision that we believe belongs entirely to us.
But is it truly our decision?
Or is it the outcome that emerged from the gathering of all these forces together?
Why Does Change Appear Superficial?
A person may change their appearance.
They may change their job.
They may change their habits.
But has the structure that produced all of this actually changed?
Here lies the problem.
Human beings often cannot reach the foundation that created them, so they become occupied with changing appearances.
The paradox is that the attempt to change appearances may itself be evidence of the stability of the deeper structure that remains inaccessible.
The foundation remains the same, while the surrounding details change.
To Change Yourself... Where Must You Return?
If a person wants to radically change themselves, where should they begin?
Should they begin from today?
Or from yesterday?
Or from childhood?
The more they move backward, the more they discover that the cause they want to repair was preceded by another cause.
If they repair an event from childhood, they find that this event was the result of a certain upbringing.
Then they discover that this upbringing was the result of circumstances experienced by their parents.
Then they discover that their parents themselves were extensions of another history.
And so the chain continues endlessly.
Therefore, returning to the origin of the problem appears to be a process without an end.
Every repair leads to an older repair.
Every cause opens the door to another cause.
Until reaching the true beginning becomes something beyond human ability, and the cost of repair becomes a price no one can afford.
The Cost of Returning to the Past
Here the central idea of this article appears.
The problem is not the desire for change.
The problem is the cost of returning to the point where change must begin.
The deeper a person searches for the origin of themselves, the further backward they are forced to go.
If they wanted to reach the true beginning, they would have to trace the entire chain of causes.
And this chain appears to have no end.
Therefore, the past appears as a force that cannot be overcome simply through desire, because human beings have no ability to erase it or rewrite it; they only live within its consequences.
The Human Being... Is It an Independent Entity?
When a person looks at themselves, they feel that they are an entity separate from the world, that they possess a unique will, thoughts that belong only to them, and decisions that emerge from within.
But what if this feeling itself is only an incomplete image?
The more deeply we reflect, the more it appears that the human being is not a self-sufficient entity, but rather a point where an infinite number of influences meet.
They are a fragment of a larger network that cannot be understood by looking at them alone.
We Are Children of Shared Struggles
The human being may appear to be an independent individual.
But their entire existence is the result of struggles that do not belong to them alone.
The struggle of matter.
The struggle of ideas.
The struggle of societies.
The struggle of genes.
The struggle of history.
The struggle of circumstances.
All these movements intersect within the human being, then appear in the form of a personality that its owner believes to be uniquely his own.
But when examined deeply, the human being becomes merely a small detail within a vast painting filled with countless details.
Therefore, speaking of true independence becomes difficult.
Where Do I Find Myself?
People are often told:
"Search for yourself."
But where is this self that one is asked to find?
The more a person tries to search for their essence, the more they find it scattered among countless influences.
The appearance of others.
The words of others.
The stories of others.
The judgments of others.
The desires of others.
Society.
Family.
Upbringing.
History.
All of these constantly exert pressure and push a person toward certain choices.
So where does that independent self remain, the one said to be the owner of decisions?
The Pressure of the World Never Stops
Even if a person lived alone, they would not be completely free.
Freedom is not merely the absence of other people.
The language through which they think was not created by them.
The ideas they carry came from outside themselves.
The values they believe in were shaped within a certain society.
The experiences they lived through created their way of seeing things.
Everything applies pressure on them in one way or another.
Therefore, the human being always appears to exist within a network of influences, not outside it.
The Human Being Is Programmable
If a person were placed in a different environment, they would change.
If they were raised in another family, they would change.
If they lived in another culture, they would change.
If their life circumstances changed, their personality would change with them.
This does not mean that they are a machine without awareness, but rather that their structure is capable of adapting to the conditions in which they are placed.
The human being does not choose the starting point from which they begin.
They find themselves placed within certain circumstances, then begin to take shape according to them.
Therefore, speaking of a personality completely separate from its environment becomes difficult to defend.
Who Placed Me Here?
If I am the result of the environment...
And the environment is the result of something else...
And the family is the result of what came before it...
And society is the result of its history...
Then who placed me within these coordinates?
The truth is that the question itself extends endlessly.
The one who placed me in a certain circumstance was also placed within another circumstance.
The one who influenced them was influenced by someone else.
And so the chain continues without revealing any element that can be isolated from the rest.
Therefore, the human being always appears to exist within a system larger than themselves.
Why Do We Judge the Individual Alone?
If the human being is the result of this enormous network of causes, why is all of this reduced to a single person?
When someone is told:
"You are responsible."
It appears as though everything that came before has disappeared.
But the human being did not create their genes.
They did not choose their family.
They did not choose the time of their birth.
They did not choose the environment in which they grew up.
Yet they are asked to carry alone the responsibility for results shaped through a long chain of previous events.
From here emerges the paradox that pushes us to rethink the meaning of responsibility itself.
No One Lives Outside Circumstances
A common phrase says:
"Do not surrender to circumstances."
It is a phrase that appears inspiring because it gives people a sense of power and the ability to rebel.
But can anyone truly live outside circumstances?
A person sits in a certain place because circumstances brought them there.
They leave because other circumstances pushed them to leave.
They choose because they exist within a network of influences that made that choice possible.
Even the smallest things in daily life change when circumstances change.
If the weather changes, plans change.
If electricity is cut off, routines change.
If the environment changes, decisions change with it.
So where can we find a decision completely separate from the circumstances that produced it?
The Difficult Truth to Accept
Perhaps what troubles human beings most is discovering that they are not the center they believed themselves to be.
Not because they lack value.
But because they are part of a system far greater than themselves.
A system that does not begin with them, does not end with them, and does not revolve around them.
Therefore, the human being, no matter how independent they appear, is an extension of a long history of causes and a witness to results they did not begin themselves.
Conspiracy... When Events Are Not Random
If all phenomena in existence are the result of a chain of causes, then what we call coincidence gradually begins to disappear.
Events do not happen because they wanted to happen, nor because time suddenly gave birth to them, but because they were the natural result of the interaction of countless forces that preceded them.
Therefore, when a person looks at what is happening around them, they become less inclined to explain things through spontaneity and more inclined to search for the structure that produced them.
Success Is Not an Isolated Event
When a person fails to achieve something, they are often told:
"You did not work hard enough."
Or:
"If you had been more committed, you would have succeeded."
But is effort alone enough?
This perspective suggests that human beings reduce an entire network of relationships to a single cause, while reality is far more complex.
Success is not formed within the individual alone, but within the environment in which they operate, the relationships surrounding them, the opportunities available to them, and the social and economic structure in which they move.
Therefore, success or failure becomes the result of the interaction of many factors, not a single isolated cause.
Circumstances Are Not Merely a Background
We often treat circumstances as though they are merely decoration surrounding human beings.
But the truth is that they are part of the formation of the decision itself.
The weather may change an entire day's schedule.
A power outage may prevent an entire project.
The presence or absence of a person may alter the course of an entire life.
Circumstances are not something that happens after a decision; they are one of the elements that participate in creating it.
Therefore, speaking of a decision completely independent from circumstances becomes difficult to defend.
The World Is a Network of Interests
The closer human beings get to reality, the more they find that people do not move individually, but rather within groups.
In markets, alliances form.
Within institutions, coalitions form.
In politics, alliances form.
Even within families, alignments form.
Not because everyone is evil, but because interests naturally push individuals to gather around shared goals.
Thus, collective decisions become more influential than the will of the individual alone.
What We Call a Conspiracy
When people speak of a conspiracy, some may imagine a closed room where the secrets of the world are being controlled.
But the meaning intended here is broader than that.
It refers to any agreement between a group of people that leads to directing resources, influence, or opportunities toward a certain side rather than another.
This may happen in the market.
It may happen within an institution.
It may happen within a family.
It may happen in politics.
And each time, the outcome is the same: the path of opportunities changes according to the balance of power, not according to abstract desires.
The River Does Not Change Its Course by Itself
Opportunities can be compared to a river flowing in a certain direction.
Someone who is deprived of water may think that the river decided not to pass through their village.
But reality may be different.
Perhaps the river’s course was changed.
Perhaps a dam was built.
Perhaps the water was redirected elsewhere.
In this case, deprivation is not the result of the river’s desire, but rather of interventions that reshaped its path.
From this perspective, many opportunities in life do not disappear naturally; rather, they are redistributed according to balances of power and interests, through certain arrangements that serve shared interests. If your interests are not aligned with those arrangements, they will not serve you and may become an obstacle in your path.
When Illusory Explanations Replace Reality
When a person is unable to see the real causes, they begin to create other explanations.
They connect things that have no actual connection.
They interpret events through relationships that do not appear in reality.
These explanations may become psychologically comforting because they free the person from searching for the actual structure behind events.
But the problem is that illusion, no matter how convincing it may seem, does not change reality.
The real causes continue to operate even when people ignore them.
Awareness Begins with Seeing Relationships as They Are
The issue is not that a person should reject hope or deny the influence of will.
Rather, it is that they must learn to look at the actual relationships that create events.
To ask:
What led to this result?
Who benefits from it?
And what forces came together to produce it?
The closer a person gets to understanding the network of causes, the closer they get to understanding reality itself, and the further they move away from explaining it through mere wishes or slogans.
The World Does Not Move Through Intentions Alone
An intention may be sincere.
Effort may be genuine.
But results are not born from intention alone; they emerge from the participation of many intentions and many factors.
They are the result of countless elements coming together and operating at the same time.
Therefore, if a person wants to understand the world, they must look beyond appearances and read the network of relationships moving beneath the surface, because events do not appear suddenly; they always arrive carrying a long history of causes.
Truth and Lies... Which One Preserves Human Survival?
If life is entirely based on a network of causes and effects, and if the human being is not as independent as they imagine, then another question arises:
How does the human being continue living within this world?
Does humanity live through truth?
Or through something else?
This perspective reaches a shocking conclusion: human beings do not live through truth alone, but depend for their survival on a certain amount of illusion. Much of what we call social stability may be nothing more than a fragile balance between truth and what humans choose to hide from it.
Truth Is Not Always Livable
When people demand truth, they often do not mean complete truth.
They want only the amount they are capable of bear.
But when truth appears completely, it may become a burden that a person cannot live with.
Therefore, society does not seem to be built on revealing everything, but rather on hiding many things that allow relationships to continue.
Lying as a Mechanism of Survival
Lying is not viewed here merely as a moral wrongdoing, but as a mechanism that emerged with life itself.
A living being does not seek only to express truth; before that, it seeks survival.
And when survival conflicts with absolute honesty, many human beings choose what preserves their continuity rather than what reveals reality exactly as it is.
From this perspective, lying becomes one of the methods humans use to maintain their position within society.
Relationships Are Not Built on Truth Alone
If every person said exactly what they truly felt at every moment, how many relationships would remain?
How many friendships would continue?
How many marriages would survive?
How many partnerships would last?
It seems that a large part of human relationships is based on politeness, hiding certain feelings, postponing certain truths, and choosing words that prevent conflict — in other words, on a form of lying.
Truth Has a Price
The closer a person gets to expressing complete truth, the greater the possibility of losing those around them.
Not because truth is evil.
But because people do not always ask for it.
Often, people ask for truth, but they want it in a form that does not destroy the image they have created about themselves and the world.
But when that truth touches their fundamental beliefs, they begin to resist it.
Therefore, a truthful person may find themselves isolated, not because their honesty is wrong, but because its impact is heavy on those who hear it.
Society Prefers Comfort Over Shock
Truth may shake the structure within which a person has lived for many years.
Therefore, many people prefer comforting narratives, even when they are less close to reality.
They do not always search for what is correct, but for what allows them to continue their lives without the image they are accustomed to collapsing.
From here, lying gains a social function because it reduces the intensity of conflict between the human being and their own reality.
Success Itself Requires an Image
In many cases, it is not enough for a person to possess skill or knowledge.
They also need the way they present themselves.
People do not deal only with abstract facts, but with impressions, images, language, and the ability to persuade.
Therefore, part of success is connected to the image a person is able to build around themselves, not only what they truly are.
Politics, Commerce, and Daily Life
When a person looks at politics, they find that speech is one thing and practice is another.
When they look at commerce, they find that a product is not sold through its reality alone, but through the way it is presented.
And when they look at daily relationships, they find that politeness, selection, and suggestion are more present than complete disclosure.
As if life itself moves within a space that is neither pure truth nor pure falsehood, but rather a mixture of both that allows it to continue.
Why Do People Hate Truth?
Not because they hate knowledge.
But because truth may mean losing something they love.
It may mean the collapse of an image they built about themselves.
Or the destruction of a dream they lived with for years.
Or discovering that much of what they built was not what they imagined.
Therefore, truth may become a threat, not because it is false, but because it destroys the psychological structure upon which the human being depends.
Between Honesty and Survival
Here this perspective reaches one of its most controversial conclusions.
The closer a person gets to absolute honesty, the more they come into contact with reality as it is.
But this contact may make them more vulnerable to loss within a society whose balance depends largely on images, expectations, and shared narratives.
Therefore, the question does not become:
"Is lying good or bad?"
Rather:
"To what extent can a person live with complete truth without losing their place within the world they inhabit?"
It is a question that does not seek a moral answer as much as it seeks to understand the mechanism through which human relationships operate, and how they balance between what is real, what is bearable, and what people consider necessary for the continuation of their lives.
Between Illusion and Truth... Why Do We Like Being Deceived?
After a person finishes placing their hopes in change, then circumstances, then relationships, they discover that they are still searching for something else that gives them reassurance.
Not truth.
But the narrative they can live with.
Human beings do not always seek truth itself; rather, they seek the story or form that allows them to continue their lives.
That is why comforting stories spread more easily than heavy truths, and more people believe them than dare to question them.
Human Beings Do Not Like Those Who Destroy Their Illusions
When you tell a person a truth that conflicts with the image they have created of themselves, the first thing that moves within them is not reason, but defense.
Because that image is no longer merely an idea; it has become part of their identity.
Therefore, they do not reject truth because it is false, but because it threatens the structure in which they have lived for many years.
Human beings do not hold onto ideas because they are always correct, but because those ideas give them a sense of security.
Society Does Not Always Reward Truth
If the world rewarded absolute honesty, the most truthful people would be the most accepted.
But everyday experience suggests something different.
The person who flatters is welcomed with a smile.
The person who softens their words is considered polite.
The person who knows how to tell a story in the way people like to hear it often receives more acceptance than the one who simply describes reality as it is.
Therefore, the problem does not appear to be truth itself, but rather people's ability to tolerate it.
Why Does Illusion Spread?
Illusion does not spread because it is stronger than truth.
It spreads because it is lighter.
It offers human beings a world they can live inside without questioning themselves or reconsidering their beliefs.
Therefore, the comforting story becomes more attractive than the explanation that forces a person to change the way they see the world.
Human beings, in many cases, do not search for what is true, but for what allows them to continue living with the least possible pain.
Truth Is Not Always a Desired Commodity
People often say:
"Tell the truth."
But do people truly want truth?
If truth would take away the hope they have lived upon, or force them to rebuild their lives from the beginning, they may prefer to remain inside illusion.
Not because they hate knowledge, but because the cost of knowledge may exceed their ability to bear it.
Therefore, truth often appears more like a heavy burden than a gift.
Every Person Builds Their Own World
People do not live inside the same world.
Rather, each person lives inside their own interpretation of the world.
Therefore, two people may witness the same event and reach completely different conclusions.
Not because reality changed.
But because each one interpreted it from within their own system.
From here, human conflict often becomes a conflict between interpretations rather than between facts.
Why Is Changing a Person Difficult?
When you attempt to change an idea in someone's mind, you are not confronting that idea alone.
You are confronting the history that created it.
The experiences that supported it.
The fears that protect it.
And the desires that benefit from its continuation.
Therefore, presenting a new argument is not enough, because people do not easily abandon their entire system of understanding.
They defend it as they would defend a part of themselves.
Truth May Isolate Its Owner
The closer a person gets to expressing what they see as truth, the greater the possibility that others will distance themselves from them.
Not because they hate that person.
But because their existence reminds others of questions they do not want to ask themselves.
Therefore, a person may find themselves forced into silence, not because they have abandoned their conviction, but because they have realized that every truth has a social cost.
Thus, silence sometimes becomes a means of coexistence, not a sign of agreement.
Between Survival and Honesty
This perspective ends with a difficult paradox.
Human beings need truth in order to understand the world.
But they also need a certain amount of illusion in order to live within society and maintain the security of their environment.
Therefore, they remain suspended between two choices:
To be honest and lose much of what society offers them.
Or to adapt to what people want, gain acceptance, and move further away from truth.
Thus, the question is no longer:
"Who tells the truth?"
But rather:
"How much truth can a human being endure before the world they are accustomed to living in begins to collapse?"
Woman and Life... The Dialectic of Survival and the Creation of the Future
After this perspective reaches the idea that human beings cannot erase the past, and that society operates through a certain amount of illusion, it moves toward reflecting on the relationship between male and female, not merely as an emotional relationship, but as part of the mechanism of life itself.
This discussion is not about specific individuals, nor about a moral judgment on men or women, but rather about the way the movement and continuation of life are understood.
The Female as an Extension of the Will of Life
This perspective suggests that the female possesses an exceptional ability to move beyond reality when reality becomes a threat to continuation.
She does not remain focused for long on what cannot be changed, but instead moves toward creating a new image that allows life to continue its movement.
The Male and the Search for Changing Reality
In contrast, this perspective presents the male as more inclined to confront reality directly.
He attempts to change reality itself and believes in the possibility of overcoming it or reshaping it.
But the more he encounters what cannot be changed, the more his struggle with the world intensifies.
From here, the difference between the two paths appears.
One seeks to change reality.
The other seeks to build something new.
And both are mistaken, as mentioned earlier, regarding the issue of results and the endless extension of every result back to infinite causes.
The Continuation of Life Is More Important Than the Victory of Truth
Life does not always seem to reward those who confront truth directly.
Rather, it often rewards those who are able to continue.
Existence does not ask a being whether it is truthful or deceptive as much as it asks:
Was it able to survive?
And was it able to ensure the continuation of the chain to which it belongs?
From here, the tools of survival become more present than the tools of proof.
The Past Does Not Stop at One Generation
Every generation believes that it begins anew.
But the reality presented by this perspective is that every generation carries within itself the remains of previous generations.
It does not inherit only genes.
It inherits language.
Habits.
Patterns of thought.
Fears.
Desires.
And even mistakes.
Therefore, children do not begin from zero; they continue a path that began long before them.
Human Beings Carry a History They Do Not Remember
The problem is not that human beings forget their personal past.
The deeper issue is that they carry within themselves a past older than their own memory.
A history they did not personally experience, yet one that lives within them.
The history of the family.
The history of society.
The history of culture.
The history of nature.
All of this continues shaping the human being, even while they believe they are starting their life anew.
Why Do Stories Repeat?
Human lives may appear different in their details.
But many of their patterns repeat themselves in an almost constant way.
Dreams.
Conflicts.
Love.
Fear.
Power.
The search for security.
All of them return in new forms, but they move according to the same underlying structure.
Therefore, this perspective does not see history as repeating itself literally, but rather sees that the laws governing it continue producing new forms of old patterns.
Conclusion
If the past never dies...
And if determinism extends into everything...
And if relationships, society, and even the image a person carries about themselves are all extensions of a long chain of causes...
Then the final open question is not:
Can we change the past?
But:
How can a human being live while knowing that they carry the past with them in every step, and that what they call the future may be nothing more than that same past continuing in a different form?
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