Why Time Travel Shouldn't be an Option
You'd die in a month, and miss your current life.
Movies and TV shows make you think traveling back in time would be so much fun and full of endless adventures. You dream about possibly jumping to another period in history to relive famous events to meet well-known people.
Or, you could put things in place that would set you up for success right now.
Even though you know it’s all a load of bull, like me, you wish you could escape your current reality and live in another. If only I had my time machine, with “Doc” Brown as a neighbor, I could go anywhere, forward or back to the future.
The only problem? You wouldn’t last long.
If you were to travel either direction in time, there’s no way you’d live that long. I believe that diseases and viruses your body has never seen will ravage and kill you within a month. A dark thought, yes, I know. But every time I dream of time travel, this thought creeps into my head.
Who knows, maybe you’d get lucky and last half a year. Once you get sick, though, if you’re far in the past, medicine won’t be able to cure you because it’s not as advanced as today.
Maybe in the far future, if technology has advanced and we don’t blow ourselves to smithereens, you might be able to be cured. Either way, time travel isn’t the option you’re looking for as a place to find yourself.
I know, sometimes I feel like if only I could travel back two thousand years to the middle east, maybe as a Black man with the name Khalid, I’d fit in, and possibilities would be challenging, for sure, but endlessly open.
There’d be no passports, so I could hop on a boat and sail anywhere to experience new countries. If I survived the journey without getting sick at sea, the world will be my oyster!
All of this is to say there’s no time like the present. We can’t go back, so keep moving forward.
If you don’t like how things are right now, be part of the change. Even small adjustments. Like working on your passion daily and gradually improving your art as well as yourself.
Appreciate the skills you’ve worked to learn and grow over your life.
Fortunately, you’re stuck in the here and now
Having an opportunity to live in the present is a gift. Time travel isn’t an option because it should never be available. We need to learn to deal with the hurt, pain, and struggles of the past to be stronger and more grateful now while we build up to our next steps and phases in our future.
I hate the fact that I can’t go back and try again. The time has passed. I shouldn’t need to give up on right now to travel to a future I think might be better to see if everything works out. I’d be running away from my problems.
I dislike having to face my shortcomings at times in order to grow. Becoming more patient with the process of life is one of them. Some things really do take years to build and grow.
You can't escape your current self, but you can do little things to improve it.
I believe in posting art, writing, and comics online every week. The practice helps motivate me to continue to create and improve. When I think about where I used to be ten years ago, I am better than I was.
Even if progress feels too slow, growth is happening.
Would you travel through time if you could? What are you doing to make the most of the present moment? Click into the comments and let us know.
It seems to me that time travel would have to be magic to work.
For example, the Earth is rotating on its axis, AND hurtling through space in its orbit around the Sun, AND around the galactic core as part of our solar system's orbit, AND through space as the universe expands...
BUT we can invent technology that would decouple a person or object from space time and put it back in the same spot (even though that "spot" has moved in multiple ways from where it was) in one piece?
Yeah, right.
So obviously, you need your magic time travel gods to hook you up with native immune system support AND a glamour that helps you fit in with the locals.
My suspicion is that this is part of the reason Rick and Morty is about dimensional travel, not time travel. Because detaching from time seems to require traveling to/existing in (at least temporarily)
other space-time dimensions, or being disintegrated and reconstructed perfectly by an outside intelligence, or both. These ideas are rife with horror/comedy that most time travel stories don't bother with.
Sci-fi/fantasy aside, it's definitely important to live in the present, as living in the past or future mentally are sure paths to anxiety, depression, or both.
Anyways.
Would I travel back in time? I would love to relive my youth with the knowledge I have now. So I'd love to Quantum Leap back into my childhood self and live a freer, less fearful life. And, you know. Buy shares in Apple.
As far as traveling into history, I'm good. I would love to see the past (like remote viewing), but to me the past is a shitshow. I am not nostalgic for ancient times at all.
As far as traveling to or even just seeing the future, it seems more like a temptation than an opportunity. Prophets seem to always predict chaos. I'd rather not see it coming.
Metaphorically, I'm trying to live in the present as much as possible.
Making the most of the present for me means trying to focus on one thing at a time. My mind wants to be in the past, present, and future at once, but I'm trying to be intentional about putting one thing down before picking up another.
It's a work in progress. LOL