Tommorrow’s Palette - LOH #277

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If I could travel through time, I’d love to go to the future. Basically, when we talk about time travel, it is usually going back in time to correct our mistakes with hopes for a better tomorrow.

A couple of times in time travel movies, we see people travel back in time hoping if they could correct one mistake, then their present life would be different. For the majority of the time, people hope the difference will be positive. But for me, I'd like the past to remain in the past as a done deal.

Most times, from time travel movies, when the past is altered, the situation does not always pan out differently. For most of the realistic movies like Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass, we see past events being altered and unfolding differently to produce the same occurrence as before.

I’d like to attribute such a phenomenon to the fact that we can’t always erase our mistakes, but we sure can learn from them.

So for me, I'd love to focus on the future because tomorrow is not promised, and ideally, it seems more meaningful to shape what is yet to come.

Now let us look at these two scenarios, the past and the future, as a canvas. It is usually easier and tidier to draw on a blank canvas than on a canvas with an already existing artwork, even if the work could be erased.

You know, back then in basic education, we were told a good artist draws on its imperfection, and the ability to turn one's mistakes into something beautiful is called art.

Thus, our mistakes could be art, and it all depends on how far we are willing to go to make it relatable, appear pretty, or be beautiful.

So the most accurate choice for time travelling would be a trip to the future, but even this is not without its flaws because a mind not fully prepared to accept what is to come can do basically nothing to shape or bend reality with the information or knowledge gained from such trips.