InBetween Breaths

Have you ever wondered about traveling through time and all the ridiculous things that you can do while you are there? Like maybe go back to find the culprit who stole your handphone, to buy a 4D past results guidebook or just to change one thing or another so that your life today will be better. I was also a dreamer of such fantasies until this statement I had read two years back got me rethinking about this amazing idea. Bearing in mind I’m no sci-fi geek, kindly excuse my ignorance if you are an expert in this subject.

Man will never be able to travel through time, if we could, they would have been here by now. This is the exact sentence that got me pondering. Yah man, of course we will never invent a time machine. I would have seen a 60 year old me by now. Or maybe my great grandson might decide to pay me a visit one of these days.

One of my first thoughts about time travel was imagining the globe spinning, at 24 hours a day. If we can somehow travel faster than that around Earth in the opposite direction, wouldn’t we be able to reach yesterday? But after giving it a deeper thought, perhaps not, because while you are traveling, time still ticks on, you will probably just waste your time dashing around the globe. But it sounded logical to me before though.

Then, a friend of mine introduced this concept to me. We are all trapped in the mindset that there is only one timeline. There are probably many, many different timelines. When someone travel back in time and changes something, we will all skip to a different timeline without knowing, but the truth is things have changed from before. It’s just that we are all unaware of it.

Now, I will like to improve on that concept, I’m sure all of us remember The Matrix, the movie with all the slow motion fight scenes?? Well, that’s not the important part. We all know that when the matrix has a glitch, we experience a déjà vu. But, how about this, when someone goes back in time and changes something, the affected people all experiences a déjà vu. And they are all sent to a different timeline, or to a different destiny just by that instance when you found something very familiar, your brain is being modified for your new destiny. So the next time you experience a déjà vu, congratulations, you might just have a change of fortune! All thanks to our future time travelers!