Time Travel

Have you ever wished you could go back in time to some point in your life and do things different, in order to have your life be changed in some way???

I just finished a book, "Return to Summerhouse" by Jude Deveraux, and the three women in the book did just that.  They traveled back to the 18th Century and made some changes to lives back then and when they returned to the present, they found their lives were different.

And it got me to thinking.  Would I want to go back in time, in order to have my life be different?  I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century, by about 100 years, that I would have been a good farmer's wife sort of person.  Would I have endured the hardships of those times?  More than likely.   But what about my life as it is now? Is there something I wish had been different? 

I think back to high school, and wonder what would have been different if I'd applied myself more.   I remember taking classes that I would pass with good grades rather than classes I would have to work harder in.  I shouldn't have opted for the easy way out.

I think back to my high school sweetheart and wonder if I really loved him in the way that grownups love each other in a good marriage, or did I confuse my feelings of something else for love?  Considering that the marriage didn't last, that in time I realized that there were other feelings that go along with love (like respect, common interests, etc) that weren't there.  But also realize that if I hadn't married him, would I have had my two children? 

Ahh the conundrum of rethinking one's life. 

I was always mildly passionate about taking photos, maybe that would have been a career option to pursue --- funny how back in those days, girls were taught secretarial skills and thought to be useful as administrative assistants to busy executives.  But I lived in Silicon Valley -- maybe some college, some other kind of formal training would have led elsewhere if I'd gone to college?


Everyone ponders alternate futures for themselves. 
Most of us just don't know how to make it happen.

That was the theme of the movie "Back to the Future" ... where Marty McFly went back to when his parents met at the dance, interactions with his parents causing them to do things slightly different, which made their futures altered just a little bit. 

It would be an exciting possibility --- as long as I could be sure the changes would be positive changes!