Strange how we perceive time, history, destiny.
How we fantasize about teleportation, time travel, superhuman strength. Our lives in the present are made up of ideas our ancestors could only ever dream of. It is almost anachronistic; Oh, the irony.

Sometimes I think of why we are fascinated by time travel. Just like in ‘Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban’ where Hermione used to travel back in time to make it to all her extra classes – it is such a quirky thought though - to see yourself as a familiar stranger. In this case, it is not even relevant to include the existence of alternate universes or dimensions (I am still not sure if one impacts the other or is the outcome of the other).

What would we do if we were faced with the opportunity to go back to speak to our past selves or move forward to meet ourselves in the result of our decisions? Would you change anything? Would you want to tamper with the ‘’natural course of things’’?

Would it be pointless? Each decision can bring forth such a variety of consequences and outflows of life stories and people which, if we really think about it, we would have not known any different in that reality anyway.

I would love to time travel to experience aspects of history in an unscathed manner. This is why I find archaeology, monuments, rare artefacts and everyday items so fascinating – they have been preserved throughout time and stand as proof of our life and human nature. 

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