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Honestly, the prompt is a thoughtful one that stirs something up deep within me. Because at some point in our different lives, we all have dreamt of a time machine.
Okay, maybe not particularly a time machine, but we all have dreamt at one point or the other in our lives to just go back in time and rewrite or fix a thing or two mistakes. Maybe to relieve a happy moment with a loved one we might have lost in this journey we call life.
Not just personally but in the world at large, there are some global anomalies which we feel that going back in time might be the solution to prevent it from happening.
But the prompt is not for anyone else to answer or for me to speak for others. It is for me to answer. So, if I could go back in time, would I change anything?
The answer is yes.
Without thinking twice about it, because severally I keep thinking about those mistakes of my life that I'd like to erase, some regrets I'd like to fix, some heartbreaks I'd like to avoid, and beautiful memories I'd like to hold onto a little longer.
If I could go to the past, I would jump on the BTC train while it was still early. And buy a handful of BTC. I recall hearing about it on the radio and all I thought was it was some scam deal. Little did I know that a few months later, it'll be the new gold in town.
I will have avoided a costly mistake that made me waste beautiful years of my life due to sickness. I would have listened to Mum and Dad and done the right thing; maybe I would have made good use of those years I wasted being in a sick bed.
Mended some broken relationships. It's said that some people are meant to leave your life, but sometimes, when I remember how good it was then, I wonder what went wrong.
But aren't mistakes or moments, both good and bad, the glue that keeps me together to be who we are today?
Are those mistakes and regrets not what made me grow and become wiser? Are they not what taught me to be resilient, emphatic and patient? Are they not what taught me to stand up after every fall? To recognize the joy that comes after pain. Are they not what taught me to learn to be better to humans around me and even to myself?
So what if I go back in time to change my past and I end up cutting a delicate fabric of my life? Maybe I'll end up cutting off some beautiful people in my life today. People I wake up to every morning and thank God for meeting them. Maybe I wouldn't have met my boss, my best friend. Maybe I wouldn't have known Hive or this beautiful community.
I strongly believe that the past is meant to be forgotten and to move on. Because somehow it leads me to who or a place I was meant to be.
Although, the idea of building a time machine and going back in time is tempting. But I'd rather not tamper with the foundation of who I am today or tamper with how the universe was meant to work. I'd rather take the lessons learnt and move on.
I don't believe that life was meant to be perfect for everyone. I might sound stupid, but I think a little bit of imperfection shapes us to care and understand more about life, people and ourselves.
