The construct of time is a combination of two major factors the future and the past while the present stands in between. Every thing that stands tall right now has its beginning deeply rooted in the past like a rock. As much as we might detest some of the activities that transgressed in the past it is what gave birth to whatever we see today.
Whenever I find myself writing about anything relating to time travel, I always like to quote a statement said by a character in the movie sadman. Gilbert said something to the new dreem lord that changed my perspective concerning the past and how it affects our future, he said "if you try to correct all the wrongs that has been done, what will be the essence of the sacrifices that were made".
It makes you wonder what roles past errors play in everyone's life. Even if it is just for imagination sake, the moment you ask a person what they would do if they were granted the opportunity to travel to the past, the first thing that would cross their mind is how they would take their time in amending the past.
It is no doubt that the past is filled with lot of sorrowful events and this events has filled our minds with the thought of; I could have done better. What we fail to realise is that, whatever we must have done in the past is based on the knowledge we had at the moment, which means we couldn't have known any better until we passed through that specific experience that shaped our mindset.
Now that we have successfully acquired wisdom from the experience, we feel the urge to travel to the past and redo those things, undo mistakes. If mistakes can be undone so easily, wouldn't that cause more chaos than good? When you think of it, despite the fact that we humans tends to make lot of mistakes, we still try to be careful about making decisions to reduce the rate of mistakes but if there was a way for us to always undo our mistakes by just traveling to the past anytime we make mistakes, wouldn't that prompt us to act more carelessly?
The greatest dilemma of all is, for every mistake we undo we erase the lessons learnt from the experience and without lessons learnt from the experience, how would we become more knowledgeable? traveling to the past just to make ourselves look good in the future feels petty to me because the fact is, the people we are willing to erase our past for just to look good, how does their own past look like? What we were in the past is what made us who we are today, I can't speak for everyone but I will gladly say, I'm proud of the person I have become.
My life has never been about looking good in the eyes of people but doing what is right whenever I can. so, even if I have a thousand opportunities to travel to the past, regardless of what I was or what I will be in the future, I wouldn't change a thing.
This write-up was inspired by week 51 episode 1 - SciFi multiverse titled "Travel in future" in SciFi multiverse community.
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