I just finished reading (well, listening to) a book that explores a recurring fantasy I have of reliving parts of my life with all of my knowledge intact. I'd been meaning to read the book for a long time
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Funny you should mention that, because I was watching Back to the Future (the first one) on HBO the other day. As you know, Marty McFly returns to the 1950s in Doc Brown's heavily-modified DeLorean, with all of his knowledge intact, and succeeds in changing his future by altering events in the past. Often a popular science-fiction theme (City on the Edge of Forever and Timecop, as well as H.G. Wells novel, The Time Machine, come to mind), I don't see time travel as a possibility in the immediate future.
Perhaps that's why it is such a popular theme. I know that I would change a few things in my past, given the opportunity. However, I see time as something fluid. Things happen for a reason, and we learn, grow, and move forward because of them. I believe some wise philosopher once said, ''Experience is the innate ability to recognize a mistake when one makes it again.''
There's nothing wrong with waxing nostalgic. However, one should never allow the dreaming of the past to outweigh acting in the present in order to change the future.
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Perhaps that's why it is such a popular theme. I know that I would change a few things in my past, given the opportunity. However, I see time as something fluid. Things happen for a reason, and we learn, grow, and move forward because of them. I believe some wise philosopher once said, ''Experience is the innate ability to recognize a mistake when one makes it again.''
There's nothing wrong with waxing nostalgic. However, one should never allow the dreaming of the past to outweigh acting in the present in order to change the future.
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