Anyway, one main theme of this trilogy is that when you change one thing (even something insignificant) in the past, it can dramatically alter the future. That got me thinking, what if we could travel into the past and change events, should we? Sure, we’d probably like to stop ourselves from doing some things, maybe even if the things we did seem insignificant to the rest of the world. Still, even in our own lives, if one part of our lives went differently, it could have unforeseen consequences. In your own life, would you try to stop a marriage? Prevent a pregnancy? Stop yourself from ruining a friendship or a relationship?
Would you, as Darth Vader did, try to prevent someone from dying? Be careful, though. You could even, accidentally I would hope, meddle so much that you don’t exist anymore in the present. Would you go back to your most embarrassing moment and change it? Would you make different relationship decisions? Would you go back and cheat on a test (or stop yourself from doing it)? Would you change a major decision in your life? Would you travel back in time to assassinate Hitler to stop the Holocaust? Would you try to warn the government about 9/11? Would you try to prevent JFK’s assassination? Or Abraham Lincoln’s?
Would you go back a few hundred years, a few decades, or even back to Ancient Rome and Greece? Would you try to prevent deaths? You might try to do good, and then have it turn out completely bad. There’s also the less life-and-death questions. Would you try to influence sports championships? Would you try to prevent your least favorite celebrity from being famous? Would you stop or extend a television series? Would you change the cast of a movie? I don’t know if time travel will ever happen. It seems too unlikely to. That said, it brings up a lot of questions. What would you do if you could travel back (or forward) in time?
