Suicidesoldier#1
Change. It would be change.
The path behind you is only in your mind. It is perceived. But there is no path. Only arbitrary steps which you have taken.
In any case you cannot follow a path.
You just do things, the key is to do the right things.
It can't be change because you can't change what the past looks like. If it's a field and you're walking through it and you look back but the wind prevents you from seeing the path, the path is
still there. It's just being obstructed. It's like I can't see the moon right now because it's daytime, that doesn't mean the moon stops existing.
Again, "path" is the word I use as a lack of a better one to describe the choices, and all that comes with them, that people make to get from Point A to Point B. They want something, there are multiple ways to get it but once you've chosen it's your "path". You can't go back, you can't erase it, that street's only one way. You can choose to make a good living by working within the rules of your society or you can circumvent those rules, and even the way you circumvent them can be creative (entrepreneurs) or not so much (criminals). These are all "paths", and some people have all of these open to them and some people don't.
Anyway this is a very determinism vs. free will debate and I see where you stand. I am in the middle. Let's leave it at that.
That's such a simplistic way of seeing things.
How do we know what the right thing to do is?
Why do want to do that?
Can we even do that? And we get more questions than answers confronting these things. Most people don't "just" do things. They have a reasons, motives, and desires that they use to justify and inform their choices.
Again this isn't a philosophy forum. If you like that subject and want to bone up on it and explore these thoughts try reading
A Journey Through The Landscape of Philosophy.