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Why I Would Not Change Anything If I Could Travel Back In Time
We have all seen movies or read stories involving time travel.
The heroes of our stories go back with the intention to do good by changing some negative event of the past.
They fix some mistake of the past or some action they did not want to have happened, and it changed everything.
It could have been rescuing their mother from robbers that ends up in an apocalyptic war (The Flash Paradox), allowing your dad to punch his bully to drastically forward his success (Back to the Future) or trying to kill a boy to prevent him from becoming a revolutionary that stops a cyborg uprising (Terminator).
In every one of those movies one single action created a ripple effect that changed everything.
If I could travel back in time to change just one thing about my life, I assume it would also create a ripple effect.
It may not do much, but at the very least I know I would not be who I am today or where I am today.
And while I would love to be richer, more famous, stronger, smarter and have more skills, wanting to go back in time is just a way of avoiding the responsibility.
It is easy to say “I wish I could go back”, but that is just because it creates an easier solution for…
