Thank you! Interesting perspective!
I think life events certainly cause change in perspectice. Maybe an example that I heard, that someone had a death close experience, that reshaped his perspective. Or maybe having cancer and beating it, could be also reshaping.
Hmmm, maybe, if we think about our current self and our current life step, it is the direct consequences of our past behaviour. This means our past behaviour defines what we get now, which will influence how we feel and act now. What I mean here is, that our life has a certain trajectory, and the past trajectory will influence the future trajectory if we don't change, because if we don't change, things won't change. So if we keep doing what we have done in the past, we will get the same things we got in the past. So at the end, our future is determined by our past life trajectory. We have the power to change it, but if we don't, then we will end up on the trajectory we started.
I am not sure if it makes sense or true, just started to think about it because of your comment.