A boy in a Frederick Bols painting appears to be wearing a pair of Nike trainers. Is this evidence of time travel or a weird coincidence? As much as I’d like to skip through time, I don’t think it’s possible.
Are you having a good Monday, Deadsplinters? Or, wishing you could hit the rewind button, go back to Saturday or Sunday?
Rewind a decade?
Or at least the time I first met Cokehead Narcissist and say no instead of yes?
I’d rewind back to my teens and make completely different choices.
My choices wouldn’t be completely different — I’d still want my family.* But I’d definitely take a completely different career path. Hopefully I could navigate that without “butterfly effecting” my wife and kid.
*For the sake of argument I’m assuming that I go back to my younger self but with knowledge of my future. If I forget everything I’ve learned, I’d probably screw up even worse. I shudder to think what my life would have been like if I’d married my high school girlfriend, for example.
I wouldn’t want to butterfly effect my daughter out of my life either. So I should be glad I can’t go back. And although I’d like to think I could make better decisions what if I did worse?
I would 100% take that gamble.
Maybe I’ve seen It’s a Wonderful Lifevtoo many times but it never seems to work out the way you want it to.
Definitely not a fan of the time-travel trope in TV/movies. Would try to ban it if I was in charge.
As an old guy, I have no interest in going back in time. Sure I made bad decisions, but I could’ve made worse decisions. And I absolutely am in no hurry to plunge into the future, where I’m older and likely angrier.
I’m old enough to absolutely not want to move forward. 💀😵
Have you ever seen photos of people using cellphones decades ago? Or supposedly? I found this one, but there’s an even older one of a guy who seems to be talking on a cellphone circa 1910 or something:
https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/time-travel-conspiracy-theory-continues-as-video-from-1938-shows-woman-on-mobile-phone-6326125.html
Imagine having smartphones during WWII. The memes. The thoughts and prayers. The Andrews Sisters fan sites and photoshopped adult images and videos. “We bombed Hiroshima LOL!!!”
I stew in nostalgia all the time but I have to remember Pope John Paul II’s wise words, which were something like (I’m not Catholic), “Nostalgia is a sin. We must not yearn for the past but instead move into the future with great hope.” Easy for him to say. He had God on speed-dial.
Yeah, lol. It’s usually a book.
I wondered if there were Nikes with heels like the shoes that guy is wearing. It turns out not officially, but there are a lot of mods out there.
I did NOT have Nike Stripper Heels on my Monday bingo card….
When my daughter was younger, middle and high school, she had a penchant for these types of shoes, would have loved theses.
You just know that the LSU fundie loon has at least one pair of these, all the better to crush her compliant sub of a husband’s…blecccch. I give up. I’m closing this window.
Nice!
…been thinking about this…& I’m on the fence…there’s a couple or so things I can think of that I’d have done differently…most of which would be times I deferred to things that seemed dumb but presumably would make sense when I was older…& now I’m older are confirmed to be utter bollocks
…& one in particular that on a similar “if I knew then what I know now” basis… potentially could have altered my trajectory through life considerably…very possibly enough that I don’t rightly know what it would have led to?
…decent chance one of the ways would have been that I wound up with more in the bank…which certainly could have been handy a time or two…but…hard as I find some things about the world to swallow…I don’t hate my life…or myself…& I’m not at all sure I’d be able to make that boast if I’d gone the route of some of my contemporaries
…tough call…on balance…probably wouldn’t…but…tipping the scales quite heavily would be “fucking time travel – for real?”
…doubtful I could resist the temptation to see what I could see…& younger me was probably too stubborn to listen to any advice from the future anyway…though I expect we could have whiled away a good bit of time discussing why, if there was time travel, it hadn’t already fallen apart on account of people travelling back only to find that butterfly effect had vanished their original future…followed swiftly by unravelling the whole timeline trying to resurrect it…before concluding that if I’d thought this through I should have known it was much safer to try it out by going forward first…then back…& if that worked…baby steps in the other direction?
The younger me never listened to anyone so you’re probably right that she wouldn’t have heeded older me’s advice either. But a Bill and Ted type time travel adventure could be lots of fun.
My sister had a luau for me yesterday & it was like time travel. Many of my best friends from high school were there including some I hadn’t seen in over 20 years. My 100 Ft Wave Emmy award winner friend even made it. One of my other friends is now a teacher at our high school, wrote a book about our crazy high school days before God saved him from death. He told nonstop stories for several hours, thankfully left out the God part. I’m exhausted so getting a slow start today but would love to travel back & relive some of those stories again.
…that sounds like a fantastic time…go sister-of-loveshaq…& it’s always nice to hear about good things (& times) happening to nice people…so hurrah in general
…glad you’re having a good trip…but part of me wonders if some of the things I get nostalgic about are maybe better in hindsight as viewed through an at-least-somewhat-rose-tinted-lens than they might be in full resolution in media res…or whatever they call it?
That sounds wonderful. 🙂
I’m relatively happy with my life, but I do think it would be fun to be able to hit the rewind button later on in life and try it again in a different way, see how it turns out.
If we’re just talking rewind to get a second weekend in, though, I’m alllll about that.
I’d be up for rewinding to specific times and events to relive them without changing anything.
honestly….i just need monday me to be able to trip back to slap sunday me
that would help a lot most weeks
Lol, been there.
I wouldn’t want to change my past, while I did some dumb shit it’s not something that was life-altering.
What I would like to do is go back in time and have a good chat with myself about self-image and to treat myself with more kindness.
That would be a good use of a Time Machine.