View from the future instead of past?

I was chatting with my friend the other day and she was feeling miserable as she didnt know what do with her life...she wanted to quit her work and then again got scared about what she will do whole day..so i asked her.. why do u want to quit? she said that she was bored... and as usual i asked the next question.. why are you bored and the predictable answer.. she doesnt enjoy her work.. and that started me thinking on our predictable way of thinking. If A then B where the event A happens leading to event B e.g. i dont enjoy my work hence i am bored or i eat at the roadside stall and got sick or i do hard work hence i am successful or the clouds are heavy hence rain falls.. in all these examples, we start from an event leading to another event i.e. we
start from the past and extrapolate to present or future..
Suppose we think in a different way...
Rain has to fall hence cloud becomes heavy.. i hv to be successful hence i work hard or my friend has to shift to another job hence she gets bored!! world war had to happen hence Hitler was born.. agriculture had to be improved hence the congress govt got elected.. or as in mahabharata, bhisma had to fight for Kauravas (otherwise war
would not have happened) hence he gave his pratigya..or in Ramayana Rama had to kill Ravana hence kaikeyi had to send him to forest...
When i think of events in this way, every event or happening is joyful..i am bored its okay as i hv to change.. when i am upset it is okay as i hv to do something different.. when i am happy it is okay (actually when i am happy i dont even want a change so its okay anyways).. when i fail its okay as i know that i hv to do something
different...and does it make sense to view an event from the future rather than from past?

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