Yesterday we had rain, though no thunderstorms. And some time in the night, the rain became snow.
I was awake at 3 am, and looked out the window, the flakes falling in the darkness, the roads shiny as glass. It continued into the morning, but now it’s sunny, the ground white and wintry even on this first day of Spring.
I’m a mix of mellow and melancholy today, but I couldn’t tell you why.
I do get bursts of thinking about what might have been, at how we got here. What people will trade for what.
There’s no use in it, I know that, intellectually. And yet I’m drawn to time travel shows. I’m in the midst of writing a story about time travel, albeit about a penguin.
It’s a secret of the universe which, if it exists, remains a secret to me.
The idea of undoing what has already been done, that’s a very pointed hook.
Sometimes I talk about time travel with my dad, and he always, always says it’s a bad idea, that you have no idea what you’re doing, and even eliminating something bad could leave something worse in its place.
So that’s a point.
It sure is tempting though.
Obviously it’s not a new thought for me, my book The Great Paradox and the Innies and Outies of Time Management is really about what humans would do with time travel if we had that power, but it is one I return to, over and over.
Making the fixed unfixed.
Sounds silly when I put it that way. Childish.
Though for all we know, cemented in three dimensions as we are, for anyone with access to more, they may be wondering what the big deal is.
They’re probably not reading this though, so there’s that. Or maybe they are.
Hi, higher dimensional being, hope you’re having a great…whatever they are where you are!
As for you, fellow three-dimensional being, I hope that your Wednesday is smooth and without anything that makes you want to mess around with time. Except maybe for funsies.
I think that’s how problems start though.
Oh well, have a great day, whenever that day happens to be.
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