What Would You Do If You Had A Time Machine?

A while back, I posted this question; What would do if you had a time machine? on my WhatsApp status and I got really interesting results. Some wanted to go to the future and see how they would turn out and if they did not like what they saw, they would try as much as possible to change it or work towards changing it. Others wanted to change certain decisions they had made because they obviously regretted them.

I would go back in time to tell my loved ones, especially those I have lost, how much I love them and that they mean a lot to me because I feel I did not say it enough. I would probably change certain decisions too.

I am pretty sure that "crazy" fans of certain celebrities would want to see them when they were little, probably kidnap them and raise them on their own; I do not know how that would turn out but it probably would not be the best of ideas.

After going through these answers, I realized that we all have things we would like to change. I am pretty sure that the governance of a lot of countries would change if every human being had the chance to use a time machine.

Some people would make sure that we did not have some of the leaders we have now, certain historic events would have been altered and some would not even take place.

I might sound "bonkers" but what if you were meant to make those decisions, what if some events were meant to happen to pave way for something better. It is very obvious that some decisions did not pave way for any good thing so we could probably change them.

From the very few movies and one cartoon I've watched about traveling back in time or into the future, it doesn't always end well. Shrek nearly lost his life because he wanted to "go back to when he was feared" and the Avengers were able to retrieve the Infinity Stones from Thanos so that is a good thing but it also had a bad twist to it.

All I am trying to put across is that, though we want to change certain things sometimes the best thing is to do nothing and leave things as they are.

Just as Charles Caleb Colton rightly said, "Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires."