When was that Jeff? not in the 16th Century by any chance? have you been born again and reincarnated? We now live in 21st century, past is well and truly gone never to come back again, what is now will also be gone soon and future will take its place, where I live today, God knows who will live in my house in future, but why would I care in the least if I am not going to be here! Time changes things, it was time that brought universe into being, billions of years later we are here, perhaps a few hundred to a thousands years from now none of this would matter, we would be the next dinosaur on this planet. So live happily whilst you can, make most of your remaining time, time is very short. No one owns the earth or any part of it, believe me no one could keep an atom from this planet forever.