Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Would you ...

If you could have a conversation with your 13 year old self what would you tell them? Would you warn that sad girl crying on her bedroom floor about trouble ahead, boys to avoid, moments to cherish or would you climb right back out the window and say nothing? Would you leave well enough alone to protect the you that exists now, what if warning her would give you something better today - what if it was something worse, would you tell her to lock her door and run.

Thats the tricky thing about changing the past. You get sucked into an endless illogical quantum sphere (multiple circles, you see where I am going). If you change your experiences during one of the most turbulent times in your life, at least biologically - what will it do to the "you" that has learned from the youthful hardships? Would those lessons come from mistakes later in life that you helped the younger "you" avoid. Would it be worth it? Would it be better, would it be worse, and who's to say either way? Isn't there a place and purpose for hardship, pain, joy, and timely events. Doesn't ignorance serve its purpose?

I guess thats why we cannot go back and change the past, at least not our own. I guess thats why parents try to guide their children around their youthful mistakes. I guess thats why living in the moment and never looking back is the only way to avoid the aformentioned endless illogical quantum sphere.

Yeah ... that thing.

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