If we could turn back time.

If we could turn back time, it'd be two weeks ago Monday. When my first term break began. Yes, I don't really want to go back further than that because frankly, why would I want to relive my life all over again? I mean, sure I might do a few things differently, but overall, I'm pretty happy with how my life is now. Okay, with the exception of my work piling up. There isn't a physical pile on my desk but I assure you, the pile in my mind is already stacked too high and is dangerously leaning to one side.

But if we really could turn back the time, I imagine there'd be a ton of problems in the world and even more problems in our lives. For one, would we ever be able to carry on with our lives if we had lost someone who meant the world to us? Not just losing someone to death but losing that person in general. To another person, to an ideal, to an addiction. Personally, I've always wondered if there was something I could have done to prevent something from happening. From losing someone I cherish so much and did not intentionally want to lose. But I think, if I ever turned back the clock to try and change something that had happened in that first instance, I might have missed out on plenty of things in the future and which I am totally grateful for now. Though I'm sure not every one shares my sentiments.

Turning back the time to elevate your status or position in life now. Now, that's an enticing thought that I don't deny has crossed my mind millions of times. Perhaps even slightly more than a million. I'd like to think that even if my financial position in life has changed, I wouldn't change who I am. But we'd never know, would we? How often do we say this or that and when things really come to pass, we never do what we said previously? It might be harmless to try and turn back the time to say perhaps, allow myself to win the lottery. Now, take that thought and multiply it by the number of people who wish the same thing. I don't think everyone is going to step into line and say 'All right people, let's make a queue on who will win today, the next day, the following week, excreta.' I'd like to think we could be that civil, but no, I don't think we could be that civil. Imagine the fights, the arguments, the fallouts (I don't understand why isn't there a plural for this word, nevertheless.). It might be worth it to some but for me, I think I like being at peace with the world.

Being able to turn back the time is something that I think, most people sought after. Well, unless they are extremely contented with their lives now but even then, I'm sure there is one thing in your life that you'd like to change. But seeing as how being able to turn back time is not something that is going to be invented soon or is likely to be invented soon. Maybe we should aim to not regret our lives, or what we do with them. To treat your friends as if you're never going to see them again, or something's going to take them away. To treat the ones you love with respect and shower them with love, whenever you can as if you're never going to see them again. To think about your enemies and what made you enemies in the first place (especially if you were friends in the first place) and maybe try to recover the relationship as if you're never going to see them ever again. Instead of wishing for something that we know might never be, we should try and make it so that we never need to wish for something that might never be.