I'm not a selfrighteous person, though I've been called that before; I just strive to be a better person than I was the day before.
I sometimes I play this head game, where I am a time traveler. "What if" I have returned back in time, to some critical point in my personal life; at the moment just before some grand event which alters everything forever? So, 'what if' today, I have been given that second change, (the one we all beg for), to actually relive that pivotal point, again? I strive to live the fullest experience of the moment; trying to live with no regrets. Obviously I've not always been successful. Yet, developing a positive attitude - though I fight off the negative ones, that creep in at times, is what I work towards.
I've always enjoyed such stories. Like John Titter in his Machine, warping time, Tunneling back to 1975 to retrieve an out-of-date IBM Computer, to repair his own equipment. If I were able to do so; "when" would I go?
Or would Frodo's Ring be better?
I rarely go back to relive past events. There are a few key ones where I will say, "if only I knew then what I know now," but for the most part I am either in the present or the future.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting to my blog, btw!
One thing about the past that countless writers have noted is that oftentimes bad things in the past lead to good things in the present. The reverse is often true as well.
ReplyDeleteIf my father had never left my mother, she would in turn have never married my step-father, and I would not have met my friend Scott, whose younger sister is now my wife.
On the other hand, if my uncle never bought my cousin a car for his birthday, my cousin probably wouldn't have had a fatal car crash.
Still, its fun to think about!
Fate. or is it destiny? Only time will tell.... yeah time traveller.... that would be cool...
ReplyDeleteJust dropped by as quid pro quo for your visit earlier. Your sites are obviously managed by an expert!
ReplyDelete"Expert?" LOL, thank you, but I'm just a newbie trying to figure it out...
ReplyDeletewhich one would turn me into an evil money grubbing fool first? time traveling or the ring of power. I wonder... I wonder...
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