I made a list of things I need to do... not today necessarily, nor this week, but sometime.
- I need to sell some stuff on eBay again, my "fun funds" have dwindled to like $3 bucks.
- Re-pot my tree. Got the new bowl like 2 weeks ago too. I'm a slacker!
- Write. Write. Write. That book's not gonna write itself.
- Clean my car, get the spare tire and jack put back properly. Neatly fold my hoodies and get the fog light repaired.
- Look for new music. I'm running out of stuff to listen to.
- Build that time machine before the Flux Capacitor wears out.
Speaking of time machines... if you had the ability to go anywhere, where would you go?
Would you travel back or forward? Would you try to save lives by warning of tragic events? Would you try to make money? Would you alter history? Observe it? Use future knowledge to play the stock market?
Here's something interesting... if you go back in time, let's say to 9-11-01 (or slightly before) to try to prevent those terrorists from their evil plan, how would you do it? Tell police? The FBI? Would they believe you? Would you get in trouble for knowing too much? Would they think you were a co-conspirator?
Here's an even weirder thought... what if you were able to stop 9-11? Let's say one of the people who died on that fateful day didn't. Then they had children that they would not have had before and what if one of those children grew up to be a tyrant? Hearing stories of how his or her mother or father had almost been killed by terrorists... that child then took it upon himself to rid the world of all terrorists. But in the course ends up being a terrorist himself?
Or let's say that child's grandchild ends up being a scientist who makes a huge miscalculation during an experiment and accidentally creates a virus that kills off all the plankton in the oceans.
Or one of the people you end up saving gets drunk one day and slams their car into you as you're driving home... killing you instantly.
I'm not saying anyone who died on 9-11 deserved to die because they were evil or were going to spawn evil, far from it... but I try to think of the what if's when dealing with time travel... I for one would only observe. I guess I would try to warn everyone, but it can be very dangerous. I have to believe that their deaths had some sort of reason. That all deaths have some sort of reason.
I would personally go back a lot father... to the unsolved mysteries of all time. Perhaps to witness important historical events... the rise and fall of Rome, the birth of Christ, the Titanic voyage. I would watch Rome burn as Nero played his lyre, watch as the Greek build the Trojan Horse and sack ancient Troy, witness what really happened 65 million years ago. Was it a massive asteroid or a slow global climate change that wiped out the dinosaurs?
I'd hide in the bushes next to a dude who claimed to be abducted by aliens, just to see if he was right or if he made it up.
In the end I would travel time to observe history in the making... but the cool thing is... most historians and anthropologists do just that without the need of a time machine... they do it with research and study.
I love history. I love mysteries. I love imagination. I love science. I love geography. I guess that's why I like writing... I can use all of them at the same time and hopefully create a good story.
That's all for now... I'll write more in a bit...
-Jeff
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