If you had access to a time machine like the one June imagined for herself, would you use it? If so, where in time would you want to go and why?
If I had access to a time machine, I would spend more time with my grandparents, ask them more questions about their lives etc. I might change some decisions I made, especially regarding my choice of career!
I wouldn’t change one thing. I’m a firm believer in the “butterfly effect,” and I’d hate for anything I have right now to disappear. While parts of my past were unpleasant, anything I changed would likely mean I wouldn’t have met my spouse and I wouldn’t be living in the PNW. Since I’m very happy with my life - no changes!
I might be interested in using a time machine, but honestly I don’t think I would be able to decide which facet of my life to change.
I’d love to travel back in time, but not to change events. I would love to watch my grand parents growing up from 1900-1920s.
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I would first love to go back to 1939 and watch my parents meet, date, and marry. I think it would be fascinating to see them as young people, falling in love. We all know our parents as . . . well, parents. We all know that parenting changes us. We aren’t as carefree, our relationships aren’t new & exciting, we are tired from responsibilities.
Second, I would go back to my high school and college years, and spend more time appreciating my parents. I would ask my father, especially, a lot of questions about his early years and his service during World War II, hoping that I might be able to get him to talk about it. He never would. He would just leave the room, so I only heard my mother’s perspective. I would assure him that I just want to learn, not resurrect painful experiences he had. And encourage him that it’s safe to share the information with me. Probably wouldn’t work. But I sure wish I had tried harder all those years ago.
I wouldn’t use a time machine or change anything in my life. Yes, there have been difficult times in my life but I like the person that I am today and that person was created through all of the good and bad times in my life.
I would not go back to change anything in my life but would to go back to buy Apple or Microsoft stock on the ground floor.
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I am conflicted about this question. There are definitely things I would do differently in hindsight but there is no way of knowing that making those changes would not deprive of good things in my life now.
No. As much as I’d like to change some things on a global level, history is history. I have to believe everything happens for a reason, even if I don’t like it. Makes me think of Stephen King’s “11/22/63”, which I didn’t care for at all because a person just can’t go back and change history. If I don’t like to read time travel books, why would I want to live it?
The only reason I would go back in time is to learn more about my ancestors. Where did they come from, what fears did they have, what things did they love and did they have hopes and dreams. But maybe we aren’t supposed to know the past.