On Time Travel ...

Many of us wish we could go back in time.  Indeed there are several cinema movies out currently that dabble in the topic (Timeline, Deja Vu, others).  Glamorous to think we could go back in time to some other point in history - maybe even change history.  But often we wish we could go back and right some wrongs in our own lives.  "Oh, I wish I could just turn back the clock, and ...". 

Modern physics is tackling the problem.  But so far, time appears linear, and moving (only) forward.  So far ... "We can't go back (backward) in time."

But by even saying that there is a `backward' - even though we haven't figured out how to do it yet - ... doesn't that betray it's possible?  Learning to rollerblade forward is much easier than backward - but it's still possible! ( ... even though I haven't done it yet).

So I think if I could just go back to that event, or decision, twenty years ago, or thirty, or five, ... I would fix things!  Can I really?  Or would I fix that only to run into something else (maybe even bigger) that I would need to fix instead, later?

The thought that we can go back in time betrays we can someday, somehow do it.

For now, turning back the clock, or date, is missing the point.  More important is that I can go back in thought.  I can change how I think about the event, or the history, or my history.  Isn't that what really holds us back?  The event is far past - but it is what we think about the event that imprisons us, disables us. 

So, let's go back in time ... do some time travel, as need be.  Let's re-live, re-play the event in thought.  Was that event really as [fill in the blank] as I thought it was?  As we change what we think about our history, we change our history.