How can we use information about past narratives as we construct and reinvent the fluid future?

As I was born in a Buddist family, we went to a lot of temples and going to this exhibition, it really reminded me of back home in China, and their believes in the Buddist practice. As, the second Buddha, who was a teacher to the king and their people, as he could see the future as a gift, during the exhibition, I believe that it was meant for people to live through the present through meditation, as the future is fluid. The second Buddha taught the past to the society in order for them to learn from the past and expect what out of the future.  I learned the most at the Monument for the anxious and hopeful exhibition, as it gave me viewpoints of other people’s perspective of the future and their expectations for the future. Through past narratives, people often use the information that they were “taught” or learned, they construct the future which is fluid. And fluid, in my meaning meant as there are a lot of outcomes in the future, as which how you use your past.