Travel Back in Time
Earlier tonight, I saw people in our chat room talking about time travel. They were laughing about the places they’d like to go back to, things they might want to change in their life. Some of them wanted to meet a famous person who has long since passed on, and others wanted to simply have a “do-over” for a wrong they had committed.
This got me to thinking – would I want to travel back in time? The answer to that is no, really. Sure, there are historical figures I wouldn’t have minded knowing in person. Wouldn’t it be cool to shake Abe Lincoln’s hand? Or maybe you’d rather hug Amelia Earnhardt. I wouldn’t mind doing some of those things, I suppose. But I definitely wouldn’t want to go back and redo anything in my own life.
If I were to do that, then I wouldn’t be exactly who I am now, nor in the place I am with my life. Sure, there have been some rough patches recently. But all in all, I’m very happy with who I am, and what I’m doing on a daily basis. Going back and changing even one thing in my past would change everything that comes after. I don’t want that!
Would YOU want to go back in time within your own life, and redo things? Why or why not – I’d love to hear your answers.
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13 Comments
Parrot
July 28th, 2009
at 12:13am
YES! I wanna go back to the time where I make a HUGE mistake that I ever make in my life.
PAPO
July 28th, 2009
at 1:07am
If I have learned anything from all the sci-fi I watch it’s that there is no good reason to go back in time as it could cause unimaginable problems, I would however like to go into the near future so I can get me some really super awesome high tech stuff to use (but I wouldn’t go to far ahead for 2 reasons; (1) so the stuff I bring back won’t stand out too much and (2) so the stuff I bring back will still be compatible with what is around now)
Csongor Kiss
July 28th, 2009
at 3:32am
Maybe, but just in a simulation, I want to see what would happened if I go to another school
BJ McKnight
July 28th, 2009
at 3:45am
Absolutely, Yes. If I could have a chance, There are a few things I’d love to change that happened bad to me & my family.
Ahmed Zaini
July 28th, 2009
at 5:14am
I would travel in time but to the future not the past, like the year 5000 and see what kind of technology they will have also see if there will be aliens on this planet or if they still have not been discovered!
David
July 28th, 2009
at 8:47am
Going back in time to change your own mistakes would be a bit silly. Also sort of a paradox. Whatever you learned from your mistake, if you tried to fix it, would disappear. You would lose the experience of committing the mistake, therefore you wouldn’t know the mistake, then it’s pointless to correct something in your corrected timeline that never happened or was never wrong. Kind of like pouring water on a fire that doesn’t exist anymore.
brigid
July 29th, 2009
at 8:08am
its amelia earheart. (:
deb
August 1st, 2009
at 7:24am
I think I would have different answers at different times. There are those moments when I truly would like to go back for some “do-overs.” Then there are other times when I am happy with who, what, and where I am.
Maybe the measure is how those times balance out. If my “do-over” moments out-weigh my happy moments, then I’m in some psychic and/or emotional trouble.
Ravindren
August 12th, 2009
at 7:07pm
I want to travel back in time to past, I have to save my beloved son.
If any one can give solution for this, please i am very thank full.
Ravindren
August 12th, 2009
at 7:11pm
I want to travel back in time to past, I have to save my beloved son.
I request for some one there who can give solution for this, please…. I am very thank full.
Dia
September 30th, 2009
at 3:08pm
Yes, I would! I would love to go back in time to 2002 and redo that year. I would have never gone back to the university I went back to, and would never had all of those brain surgeries there and would have never ended up to be the pathetic loser I am today. I would have stayed studying with my voice teacher in London, and then when my brain tumor got big enough it would have killed me. I would have died happy instead of suffering in misery for years and years and years.
Robby
October 31st, 2009
at 2:20pm
Time travel would be cool if you could see something but you couldnt change anything. When maybe already going on. Maybe what we see as ghost are time travelers. If time traveling was possible any other way we would have seen it already. People from the future would have traveled here already. Not to say they havent. But no record of it anywere.
caitlan
January 4th, 2010
at 11:03am
Yes I would like to go back and correct the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. the man I married. both times. I was engaged and married someone else. he was in the military and I couldn’t wait. dumb me, so I married someone else. what a huge mistake. then I divorced him and married again and that was a huge mistake too.
Would love to correct those mistakes, and marry the man I should have married.