If I can change just one event in your life, what would it be?

Philippines
April 30, 2009 10:48am CST
I've always been fascinated with time-travel. And so the question, if I can travel back in time and change just one event in your life, when would that be and how would you rather have it?
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@lnkzi62 (60)
• Indonesia
30 Apr 09
I don't think I would like to change anything in my life eventhough I can travel back in time because everything happened in my life has its own meaning. I always believe that God will give the best for me. If it is bad, I believe that God must think the bad thing is the best for me that I can try my best to handle or solve it and I am sure it will make me stronger. I just want to go ahead with my life. let the past become good experience for us to face the future. surely, the bad thing will not happen again as we have learned how to avoid it by enduring it for the first time.Just remember that even a donkey will not fall to same hole twice.
• Philippines
30 Apr 09
Pardon me for saying this, but not "everything" that happens is God's will. Just as God, as much as possible, does not want bad things for us. It's a common misconception by people that "everything" is how God wants it. Remember "Free Will" and "Knowledge of Good and Evil" (and how some are confused at which is which). Things happen to us because we "chose" to do them. Either that, or we did things that would eventually lead to it. Just as waking up late and missing the bus. Surely, it's a lesson that we can all learn from the first mistake. But it keeps on happening to us. Is it wise to say then that it's still "God's will"?
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@jillbeth (2705)
• United States
30 Apr 09
Great response. Most of our troubles are caused by following our own will, instead of understanding that God has our best interests at heart and that we should follow His will for our lives.
@masonj (47)
• United States
30 Apr 09
I would probably change some financial decisions that I made earlier in life. Doing so sounds like it would be great idea now but I admit that I would have some worries. Changing one thing in our past could affect every thing in life that happens after that change. Its called the butterfly effect. There is a really cool movie by that name that is based entirely on that idea. Other obvious movies, such as the back to the future films, go directly into such things. Taveling back in time to change something would be great only if it had great consequences. I beleive traveling back into time, no matter how advanced we as humans get, is impossible because what is considered the grandfather paradox. This concept states that if you traveled back in time and killed your grandfather before your dad was born then you yourself would never had existed to travel back in time in the first place. It's great to imagine "what might have been". If only we could find out.
• Philippines
30 Apr 09
I agree with you that it "could" affect everything in life that happens after the change. But then again, I'm only asking just one instance or event. I wouldn't go too far as discussing , butterfly effect,paradox or related terms either. But while we're on the subject, how bout the movie Sliding Doors, like everything else picks-up from where the alternates/possibilities join. So, killing your Grandfather leaves you with the present time that you pick up from that point on. Boggles the mind a little bit, wouldn't you say.
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@jillbeth (2705)
• United States
30 Apr 09
I would have stayed in college and pursued an interesting career. That's my own fault, though, because I thought I wanted to be married and planned to continue my education but never did. Life got in the way instead and I helped raise three stepchildren plus my own son. But I'm basically happy where I'm at now because I always wanted to be a writer and now I have time to pursue that dream. And all four children are now my adult friends who have blessed us with many wonderful, although bratty, grandchildren. So I guess I probably wouldn't really change anything.
• Philippines
30 Apr 09
Thanks for the comment. Here's my proposition, if you had stayed in college and took up Literature, graduated, and then got married and continued on with raising 3 stepkids plus your own son. Wouldn't that make you happier today? I'll bet it would. I'm glad though that you learned to appreciate what you have now and made the BEST out of it. And don't worry about changing anything, that's something for me to do.
@rymebristol (1808)
• Philippines
30 Apr 09
the idea of time travel is something that i was wishing, if only it's possible, even with a prize of condition or consequence, i would pay for it or do it just to go back to the time i felt that i was in hell. i want to go back 1 year to 2 years from now, i could have prevented someone from dying if i were in those particular time. if only it's possible, how i wish!
• Philippines
30 Apr 09
Is there anything you would like me to tell that person, that you didn't get the chance to say, 2 years ago?
• Indonesia
30 Apr 09
I don't even dare to image what butterfly effect it will have to my current life, time machine is a cursed idea to this world (or so I think), but if you asking me what will I change ? probably I will go back and apologize to my father, that one thing that been bothering me all my life, he left me too early, even when he was made sure me and my mother will not living a hard life after he gone, he's still gone too early, I want to thanks and apologize to all my action towards him, at least once.
• Philippines
30 Apr 09
That's very nice of you to recognize your father's effort making sure you and your mother does not have a hard life even after he's gone. That shows you how much your father loves you both. You're father would be very happy to know that he is that important to you. And do not worry, he never really was angry with you.
• Ireland
30 Apr 09
You change one event, you change everything. And you cannot predict what will happen. However if I could change one event it would be to not have my mother die when I was six years old . I may or may not be a different person today, I may or may not have made different choices, I may or may not be equally restless, unsatisfied, unfulfilled....who knows. But I would certainly want to find out!