Day 23: The ways of changing the past
It turns out, yes, we can time travel!
The way I see it, we have three ways of changing the past.
#1. The Facts
We see the past as something that happened to us, we see it as good or bad, painful or joyous, moments that changed us or moments that broke us.
As we grow older, past becomes something forgotten, something more and more distant, memories become blurred and we accept it as they happened. We see it as past reality, cards we were dealt with and we took them without questioning. It was fate.
That past is there and we cannot change it. Mostly because we don’t want to change it. Above all, we were and are too scared to change that past. Let’s leave it there.
And die without even trying. Because change is hard, it hurts. It takes courage to change and we don’t have that. We were not taught that and frankly, we are too old to learn again.
As we guessed, I don’t like this first option. It smells like resignation, a life without living. Not for me. This way obviously means no changing the past!
#2. The Perception
The lemons we got, some bitter, some fresh and we made a tasty lemonade out of them. We tried to learn from experience, developed ourselves through the process. We accepted what we couldn’t change and we changed what we couldn’t accept. Sometimes we were hurt, other times grateful for those hurtful moments, because they made us stronger and wiser.
We accepted what we couldn’t change and we changed what we couldn’t accept.
There’s a big difference in acknowledging the facts from the past and recognizing the potential in learning from them. Most events we are faced with, “happen” to us. But most of them, I believe, don’t just happen “to us”, but are the consequences of our choices. That is also why decisions are hard. Add to that some fear and we’re going nowhere.
So, this “time travel” does mean we can change the past. Because with learning from experiences, we see them differently after they happen and through time, we look at our past with changed perspective, changed perception and above all, we are a changed person with more developed mind and heart.
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein
#3. Traveling to the past
We travel to the past with every memory we feel emotionally attached to it. Because we feel as we’re there. Just knowing something happened years ago doesn’t cut it, but feeling those moments… yeah, that I would call traveling to the past.
And seriously, time travel. Amazing, right? Science fiction, I know. For now. But hey, maybe we, as a humanity, are still so primitive that nobody from the future even doesn’t want to travel in 2016! Maybe we are boring, too stupid or just really at the beginning of human evolution. Maybe in 2100, they will meet the first time traveler from the future who invented the time machine in 2500 and decided to travel in time where humanity was ready to work together and started to travel on other planets and worlds.
I hope 2100 comes sooner. ;)
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