Time Travel Assignment

Most everyone talks about how they wish they could go back in time and change things. We often don't think about the cause and effect in doing so. I would not change anything if I could travel in time. There are reasons for things happening the way they do and those things that could have been prevented provide important lessons for us. Whether or not we choose to accept these lessons and learn from them is up to no one but ourselves. Changing the past means a change in the future too.

There are always things that happen in life that make people wish they could go back in time. We wish could change or erase the past. Many times it’s hard to accept our own hardships. It’s also hard to share them with others. If I had changed my parents past there would be lessons they may have never learned that may or may not be crucial to them. The decisions they make and the lessons they learned have been passed on to my sisters and I. Selfish as it may sound, because of my parents past there are difficult lessons that were taught to me without me feeling the way they did when they had to learn it the hard way.

I would love to take away all the hurt my parents felt as they grew older and experienced life. Both my parents were divorced prior to marrying each other. My father married at 18 while already serving in the army. Complications with his ex-wife contributed to his department from the Army. She was also the reason he did not attend West Point. My mother’s ex-husband was a nightmare. She was not treated the way she deserved and neither were her three kids. However, if I went back in time and corrected that for them, my sisters and I would not be here today. Because my father’s military career was ended and both of my parent’s first marriages were ended, I exist as well as my two beautiful younger sisters. Also, my parents have learned their own life lessons that are now able to pass on to us.

My parents had three children together. I was my father’s first child and my mother’s fourth. Had my mother never met my father she would have never had my younger sister, Nina. If my mom had not had Nina she would not have had the chance to say goodbye to her mother. My mom’s mother came to live with us a few years ago. My mom was away at work when Nina discovered my grandmother dying in the bedroom they shared. My sister called my mother who thought things were ok. She thought my grandmother was just asleep. Nina had to call 9-1-1 who talked her through CPR. Though her chest compressions were not strong enough to help, she called the emergency number just in time. They were able to restart my grandmother’s heart several times. Each time gave my mother longer to get home. My mother having Nina allowed her the opportunity to say goodbye to her own mother.

If I changed the past, the present would not be here. This would cause a change in the future. While some things may flourish due to the changes, I think most things would suffer. All the same, if I changed the past I would know what I am missing from the present and I would be the cause of it. If I had a time traveling machine I would not make use of it because the chain line of cause and effect is better left undisturbed.