Past vs Present

Borges opens the story sort of comparing the universe to a library. Once you are in this library you can view the floor both above and below you, paying the illusion that this view was endless. The mirror presented in the story proves to be a sort disqualification for validity of the library as endless still it is said to be the justification of the universe, but also the universe itself. The library contains both the present and the future, while some jumped at the chance to discover what was to come oven though as Borges states there is almost zero chance of finding your own "Vindication", people  still jumped at the chance. Others sought out to find the true origin of the universe and they found some kind of hope in that within the library. I wonder if I was put in this library if I would be in search of the past or the present. Would knowing what is to come somehow hinder it from coming into fruition or is it more important to know what happened in the beginning to be able to truly be sure about how this thing called life came to be? I honestly feel like there is beauty in the unknown. Instead of actively making it my goal to search for one or the other, I'd just meander aimlessly through the rows and rows of books being content with whatever I stumble upon and that's how I feel that people should maneuver through life on a more general level.