If you could step back time, even for just a minute, be able to go to a certain point in your life, experience it all over again, would you do it? Jump back to any point in your life, from the time you were born to present day. If you did,
Would you look at your past self differently?
Would you envy how you used to be,
or would you appreciate the changes you’ve made?
Would you interfere with your past self and give she or he advice, warning, criticism?
Think back on the happiest, or saddest, part of your life. The one segment, one chapter, one place that makes your heart feel different. Not make it flutter, necessarily. None of the cliche descriptions to describe the way it feels. It feels different, deeper, to where the bottom of your heart feels an odd way.
When you find that moment from your life that causes such a reaction, and there was a big red button next to your index finger or a time turner or some other sort of transportation-like device, would you press it or turn it or smash it or just brush your fingers across it only to examine the possibility. Taking the present for granted to relive something you’ve experienced? Or would you see it as coming to binds with the past to make your present better? A good thing versus opening a can of worms. A bad thing versus alteration to a more stable future. Or maybe it would have no affect at all.
Then again, maybe the idea of going back into the past is a form of insecurity. Insecure with the way the present is compared to how the past was. The past is a comfort zone because we know exactly how everything turns out and we’ve had time to reflect on decisions made and possibilities accepted and denied.
If that opportunity laid in your hands; if it was a power that would, in no way, change how you live your life now, what would you do?
That button, the device to transport yourself to the past.. to press it, that presently nonexistent instrument. It would change everything in your head.
