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Category Story / Comics
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Well, if you've got time travel, might as well abuse it for the right reasons. =P Though I'd say Fred is one of the few people who could use it wisely, and not threaten reality or the timeline.
Or the sanity of himself and others. Seeing another version of you is quite the shock to the system! And I'm pretty sure having two of him around would give more than a few hyenas heart attacks! XD
Or the sanity of himself and others. Seeing another version of you is quite the shock to the system! And I'm pretty sure having two of him around would give more than a few hyenas heart attacks! XD
I think that a future version looking at a past version would be very similar to watching a home movie--you remember doing what the past self is doing right now.
Seeing a future version of yourself might be a little more nerve-wracking, especially if you don't believe it. I keep wondering how many people would take the life advice of an old person who says, "I'm you from the future. Don't marry that person, and get a job doing something other than what you're doing now. Trust me!"
Seeing a future version of yourself might be a little more nerve-wracking, especially if you don't believe it. I keep wondering how many people would take the life advice of an old person who says, "I'm you from the future. Don't marry that person, and get a job doing something other than what you're doing now. Trust me!"
Hopefully not many! Yes, we may have done some stupid things, but trusting some random stranger with your life decisions seems like a good way to end up miserable or even dead! And it's not like a future version of you can see all ends, just the bad ones you've run into. Like someone who's played Dark Souls or a Sierra adventure game and knows where all the deaths are! They don't know anything beyond where they've gotten in the game, and their advice might change things far beyond what either of your imagined.
Kinda makes me glad time travel doesn't exist. I think it's too easy to screw things up, even if it requires a lot more than stepping on some random butterfly.
Kinda makes me glad time travel doesn't exist. I think it's too easy to screw things up, even if it requires a lot more than stepping on some random butterfly.
And yet a lot of people go to psychics... ;)
Meanwhile, there's a saying: "When I was seventeen, I thought my dad was an idiot. Now that I'm 21 I'm amazed by how much he's learned in four short years..."
If people won't take the advice of their parents, they certainly won't listen to some old guy saying "I'm you from the future!"
If I could go back in time for one hour, I'd try to warn my father about the bladder cancer that killed him so he'd go to the doctor sooner; I'd talk to my cousin about the so-called friends she let cheat her family out of her will by getting her to change the will on her deathbed (they laughed about the vacation they were going to take, while at her funeral); I'd change the advice I gave to my brother about his first wife; and I'd try to convince my friend Angela to get on a weight-loss program and see a doctor about the chronic insomnia that eventually led to her death.
Meanwhile, there's a saying: "When I was seventeen, I thought my dad was an idiot. Now that I'm 21 I'm amazed by how much he's learned in four short years..."
If people won't take the advice of their parents, they certainly won't listen to some old guy saying "I'm you from the future!"
If I could go back in time for one hour, I'd try to warn my father about the bladder cancer that killed him so he'd go to the doctor sooner; I'd talk to my cousin about the so-called friends she let cheat her family out of her will by getting her to change the will on her deathbed (they laughed about the vacation they were going to take, while at her funeral); I'd change the advice I gave to my brother about his first wife; and I'd try to convince my friend Angela to get on a weight-loss program and see a doctor about the chronic insomnia that eventually led to her death.
There's a lot we would all like to change about the past, for ourselves and others. But it could do more harm than good in some cases, and in others... well, some people have to learn the hard way. I've been pretty stubborn myself at times. Once a person is in a certain rut, they tend to stay in it, for better or worse. Guess that's why it's important to get it right early so it's easier to get out when you need to. Or at least have something that's less of a rut and more of a comfortable groove that adapts as things change.
Still... sometimes, it's nice to imagine how things could be better. So long as we don't torture ourselves with it. That doesn't really do anybody any good, now does it?
Still... sometimes, it's nice to imagine how things could be better. So long as we don't torture ourselves with it. That doesn't really do anybody any good, now does it?
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