Oh how people wish they could go back in time or forward in time……
In the early 1990s, I bought a computer game for my father John for some occasion like a birthday, Father’s Day, or the holidays. The game ran on our MS-DOS system computer and bore the name Timequest.
The plot begins in the year 2090. A bad guy has stolen a time machine and traveled into the past. He’s altering historical events to make the outcomes of these events change. The game player is charged with taking another time machine and stopping and reversing the heinous doings of the bad guy. If the bad guy isn’t stopped, the world will fall apart.
Timequest was hard to play. My father and I had to order the secret manual from the creator in order to manuever our ways through six geographical locations in nine different time periods. The secret involved gathering items or doing just the right thing in order to stop the altered timelines.
We seemed to often get stuck dealing with the death of Julius Caesar in Rome of 44 BC.
I bet a lot of people would love to have a time machine. They regret that they didn’t ask out that guy or gal during high school, punch the bully, or (in some cases) regret saying “I do” to someone they now feel themselves strapped to but refuse to break the vow.
In some cases, people would like to go back to time and relive what they saw as glory days. Living the university life and hitting different bars and different bedrooms might be the way they would like to live la vida loca.
Or, maybe a time machine would take people out of a place they are in now. “If only,” they might say, “I could hop into the machine and zip away from this drama involving my divorce/ ill parent/ bankruptcy then I could move on.”
No matter how long you live, you will never forget the challenging time that you are going through right now or went through back then. You will always look back and wonder how different things might have been, if only you had made other decisions.
Although you don’t have an actual time machine, you do have the next best thing.
The choices you make and the priorities you pick can alter everything.
You can actually send good feelings or thoughts back to the time when that bully was picking on you. Choose to lash out to him or her with your glorious wit. Then walk away.
Put yourself into your own future and beyond the drama you’re in right now. Imagine your future self telling you amazing things about what the future is like for you.
Change your past, change your present, and change your future.
My father and I did eventually get to the end of the game using our combined brain power, intuition, the guide book, the choices we made, and the priorities we picked.
We altered everything.
And we saved the world.
