Lost In Time

Last weekend my friend, Mert stayed in our house. We watched a movie at night, as usual when he stayed with us. This time he chose the movie It was a movie about time travel. Two children were travelling through time to find their lost dog. When the movie was over, Mert asked me, “Would you rather go to the past or travel to the future?”. He asked this question as he asks, “what time is it Erdem?”, but I knew that the answer to this question was not that easy. I looked him and opened my mouth to answer him but just then, our cat Yağmur threw the figurine elephant on the shelf to the ground and the figurine broke. So, I couldn’t answer him. After collecting the broken pieces, we decided it was late and went to our beds. When I laid down in the bed, I was still thinking about the question Mert asked. Which one would I rather prefer? The future or the past? According to the videos I watched on YouTube, scientists had proven that it was possible to travel to the future. If we can exceed the speed of light, we can go to the future. Of course, in order to do this, we need a vehicle that will prevent us from evaporating into our molecules when we exceed the speed of light. Travelling to the past is more complicated. Einstein suggested that traveling to the past would only be possible by passing through wormholes in space. A wormhole can be visualized as a tunnel with two ends at separate points in spacetime. The problem is, even if there is such a thing as a wormhole, once you enter through a hole on one side, you never know when or where you will appear. It was certain that I cannot solve these problems that famous scientists could not solve overnight. So, I asked myself whether I would choose the past or the future. I thought I would go to the past to change something I don’t like right now. But something that we would change in the past would also change many things that would happen later. Then, I would have to change them too, and I would not be able to go back from the past, because it would be a vicious circle. When I thought about it, going back to the past didn’t interest me. So, what would it be like to travelling to the future? Every person in the world wants to know what will happen in the future. I think there is only one reason for this, and that is because they are afraid of bad things that may happen in the future, but they hope to know that better things will happen in the future. However, no one wants to know when or why they or their family will die. Or about other annoying events they will experience. So, when a person travels to the future he will find that just as good and bad things are happening now, they will also happen in the future. This is the rule of life. So, when I think about all these things, I felt glad that time travel is not yet possible. As a 10-year-old, I fell asleep deciding that it was easier to stay in the present and make the best possible choices for my future than to fight the past or know what was going to happen in the future.