This week my #weekend-engagement topic is a little deeper than the previous weeks...It asks, what would you do if you had a time machine. You can take a look at the post right here and for your comment you'll have the chance to win some of the 115 hive in the prize pool. It's a simple contest designed around fun. Go take a look if you like.
I've always been very interested in history and spend much of my free time learning about events both natural and created, historical places and people. It fascinates me as I find the past much more interesting than the modern era and society. I think people were more interesting too. For this reason my thoughts have often wandered to the concept of time machines and where or when I would go to if I was to have one.
I'd like to say I can narrow it down to just one place, time or event but to be honest I don't think that's possible for me. There are so many things I'd love to discover, truths I'd like to uncover and happenings I'd like to observe...Isolating just one of them is not something I think I could ever do.
What I know though, is that I would dearly love to time and place travel.
Of course, I'd hardly like to land myself into the midst of some historical turmoil, a battle between the armies of Mercia and the Dane Viking hoard in 877 for instance, so as long as I have some control over where I landed and was impervious to harm whilst time-travelling I think it would be the coolest thing ever. (OK, I wouldn't mind the battle scenario - I'd join the Danes though. Lol)
Here's the thing about time travel for me though; I'm not sure if I'd want to come back to the future...Like ever! In fact, I'm sure I'd not want to come back.
I have visions of time travelling all over the world, through time and space, learning about all those things that have puzzled me, piqued my curiosity or have seemed remotely interesting. I would be in my element and it's doubtful I'd want to come back to 2020 and live in society as we know it now.
Of course all that time travel might mean I may discover a time and place that I loved so much I'd want to stay and, once again, I'm just not sure where or when that may be. It wouldn't be 2020 though. In this case I'm sure I'd want to live comfortably so would use my time travelling ability to ensure that was the case...Not as a super-wealthy person...Just comfortable. I'm more of a cabin in the woods guy than a penthouse on 5th Avenue guy so somewhere in the wilderness, with a few accoutrements of comfort around me would suit just nicely. I suppose being in possession of a time machine would make providing this comfort quite achievable.
When I posed the question on the #weekend-engagement topic post yesterday I had visions of people saying 2010 so they could buy bitcoin and it has been mentioned. I guess I felt the same way, and probably still do, however so many mentioned points in the planets', and human, history which I think is pretty cool also. There's no right or wrong answer, and with a time machine there's really no inhibitor to seeing it all right?
I'm not one to think much about the implications on the future by changing the past...It gives me a headache I suppose. Although one can't change something without implications so it's a very interesting concept. Eliminate someone from the past and the future could be so vastly different...That goes for all the bad people too...Out of bad things springs good right? Of course eliminating histories bad actors would be tempting I know! For me though it wold be all about the learning and experiencing aspect.
So, despite posing this question to the hive team I think it's a very difficult one to answer for myself. Where would I go? Everywhere. What time or era would I go to? All of them. I know, not a very good answer huh? Lucky I'm not eligible to win my own competition as I'd fail miserably I think!
Anyway, if you're reading this you're a part of the hive team and if you want to engage with a heap of others, start a few relationships or simply win some free hive head over to the week seven topic post take a look, throw a comment there and be in the running!
In the mean time, I'm hopping into my time machine and heading off to that time when I had sugar and cinnamon donuts in the house to grab a couple! 馃槈
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