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Time traveling ponderance.
Jun. 17th, 2005 10:59 pmI've been contemplating the nature of time travel, specifically, if one were to go back and relive some earlier part of life, say school or college or some such. Possibility aside, I think that given the chance to do so, very little good would come from it, barring perhaps one way, but I'll get to that later. The biggest problem I see if one were to go back and relive a part of our life is that we've already lived it, and by that, I mean we already know the people we would interact with. I think that many of us would go back to relive parts of our life due to some relationship, be it with a significant other or family member, or perhaps some authority figure who royally screwed us over.
Needless to say, years of experiences with those people are what has shaped both us and them, but to go back and try to meet someone again for the first time, I think bringing all of one's previous knowledge would have far more potential for harm. I think of Bill Murray in Groundhog Day when he inadvertently let on how much he knew about Andy McDowell and how badly that went so many times. Granted, he finally got it right, but still. I think of what would happen to my relationships if I were to go back and redo them. So many experiences that I may have loved would never happen exactly as they did, for they were spontaneous the first time, and could never be so exactly the same way. Trying to arrange it as so would ruin it as well. One might change things, but the very reason one came back for might be altered forever. There would be no true fresh start, because of the mental baggage one would arrive with.
Thinking on it, I figure that the only way in which such a thing could work would be if one could come back as something of a guardian, a voice in one's past head. Loud enough that one's past self would listen, of course. That way, one could guide, speaking words here and there, giving insight and whatnot. Perhaps even the ability to take over when needed, but only on occasion.
...This is a really weird thought process I have going on here. I'm going to bed.
Needless to say, years of experiences with those people are what has shaped both us and them, but to go back and try to meet someone again for the first time, I think bringing all of one's previous knowledge would have far more potential for harm. I think of Bill Murray in Groundhog Day when he inadvertently let on how much he knew about Andy McDowell and how badly that went so many times. Granted, he finally got it right, but still. I think of what would happen to my relationships if I were to go back and redo them. So many experiences that I may have loved would never happen exactly as they did, for they were spontaneous the first time, and could never be so exactly the same way. Trying to arrange it as so would ruin it as well. One might change things, but the very reason one came back for might be altered forever. There would be no true fresh start, because of the mental baggage one would arrive with.
Thinking on it, I figure that the only way in which such a thing could work would be if one could come back as something of a guardian, a voice in one's past head. Loud enough that one's past self would listen, of course. That way, one could guide, speaking words here and there, giving insight and whatnot. Perhaps even the ability to take over when needed, but only on occasion.
...This is a really weird thought process I have going on here. I'm going to bed.
