How Time Travel Can Change Your Life
There are countless books and movies about traveling to the past and meeting your past-self. What a grand adventure it would be! I certainly have imagined such a trip for as long as I remember. Sometimes, you can still catch me analyzing my parents wedding pictures, trying to spot myself somewhere in the background. Alas, this is nothing more than my heavy sci-fi mind in action. Science has yet to crack that mystery (time travel not my mind).
But lately, I began a new adventure, and have been amazed at how impactful and real it has been. I have been talking to my future self, who indeed has the technology to travel to the past (via means in which he is forbidden to reveal…Time Travel Code or something)
There is nothing more powerful than the human imagination. Let’s put that imagination to good use and simulate time travel.
Imagine if you can indeed travel to your past and speak with your past self (let’s call that person You 1.0). Besides telling You 1.0 you how awesome social media is and to buy Apple, Amazon and Google, you would likely spend the time warning them about all the mistakes you have done, the regrets that haunt you till today, and to hit the gym more often. Alas this is impossible as mentioned earlier. You 1.0 is stuck on the path that created the you of today.
But there is a way to use imaginative time travel to your advantage. Imagine if you, today, are visited by your future self (let’s call that person You 3.0). Resist the urge to find out who wins the next 4 World Cups (you read it first here: Argentine, Germany, Brazil, and Canada) and instead listen to what You 3.0 regrets most in life. Are you in the right job that is making you happy? Are you eating a balanced diet? Are you leading an active lifestyle? Did you surround yourself with a positive circle of family and friends who enrich your life? Is your path a good one, and have you made a positive impact to your world?
This will just about be the most honest conversation you will ever have, for the mirror never lies. This is a unique opportunity to see where the path you are currently on will take you. You cannot change the past, but you can change the future. This is how powerful you are, use that power!