What if you could travel time and and reduce your age? It's an exciting idea with infinite possibilities, but it is also dangerous. Here are my thoughts and what I would do if i had such an opportunity.
One thing about being human that we are not exactly told when we come to this world is that perfection does not exist. This means that we don't get to have things in the exact manner we may hope, and we often don't make the best decisions. If, then, there could be an opportunity to make changes in the past—revert decisions, take some steps, and all that—one might very well consider it, as it would be seen as a way to make things perfect.
When it comes to time travel, however, I like to tell myself that I don't want to meddle. I do not have first-hand experience with time travel—no one does, actually—but living vicariously through the experiences of different characters in different time-travel stories in films and books, I know very well how dangerous it is to travel through time and make changes.
In a different article of mine, in fact, I explained my thoughts on the dilemma of time travel. It's about choosing between traveling forward in time and backwards. And my conclusion, basically, is that I really wouldn't want to travel in time. I believe life is a journey, and every experience of it shapes us into the person we are. However, this time I am making a reconsideration to explore. After all, it is an exciting concept with many possibilities.
Before I dive deeper, what does it really mean to reduce one's age? What defines the age of a person? Undoubtedly, time is the measure of change and is the basis on which we determine age. The age of what, exactly? The mind or the body?
To reduce one's age would technically be to alter the measure of how long they have been existing in time. Technically, this is to travel back in time, but with a twist!
If I were to have the opportunity to reduce my age, it would mean that I would be getting younger, invariably. This, technically, should have an intertwined effect on my body and also on my mind.
I think an effect on my mind would make the whole purpose of traveling back in time futile because, well, my mind would be younger, and then I may not even remember why I traveled back in time in the first place. So, I would rather go with the idea that my mind would be intact and only my body would be younger. But I digress...
So, what would I do differently, then?
Keeping in mind that the present I know may very well be different from what I know, I would endeavor to do something that would likely yield a better me.
To start with, love isn't something I was exactly good at when I was much younger. I'm not saying I am some kind of love doctor now, but that I made very gullible mistakes. The good thing, however, is that I always learned from my mistakes. Oh, yes. I have been in quite a number of relationships—with women, please. Let's be specific here.
The relationships were far from perfect, and I didn't always do well. I was much younger then, though, so don't look at me like Thanos. It isn't like I was a heartbreaker. I just wasn't a heart-maker (if there's anything like that). I would love to do better if I did get the opportunity to be younger again.
Living my dreams
I have had a couple of ambitious dreams that I could have lived out, but I slept on them, and they just never became a part of my life. If I could be younger again, I would try to chase them, especially with the experience and knowledge I have now.
For one, I used to draw before. As a kid, drawing was a natural thing for me. I did it with joy, and I was moderately doing well with them. For some reason, I never did it much as I grew up. I wonder what I may have become if I had taken the time to develop myself.
Another is that I would take music more seriously than I did. I had more time when I was younger, and I could have used it to explore music even deeper. Now that I am older, life gets in the way and I don't make enough time for it.
Making these changes in my life would alter the reality I already know. Many things would change in my life, and I would most definitely turn out to be a much different person than I am now at this present time and age.
I would still make mistakes along the way, but I guess that's life after all; we don't get everything we want. So, if I could reduce my age and do things a little differently, they would be in my relationships and also in my dreams. Surely, there is a lot more that could be done, but I will stick with these for now.
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