This past weekend I watched the Time Travelers Wife (I have already read the book) and loved it. Although, sometimes it’s very hard to wrap my head around all the time travel. But watching that movie got me thinking a bit. If you could travel back in time to relive your life again would you? Would you want to go back knowing what you know now? Or would you want to go back and live it like you lived it before?
Yesterday I read a facebook comment from a friend wanting to go back to a certain point in college. Man would I love to do that! College was probably the best time of my life. But if I went back to my college days I would in no way shape or form want to know what I know now. I would want to go back and relive it like I did the first time. People say “If I knew then what I know now”, but at this point in my life I don’t think I’d ever travel back with today’s knowledge. I loved being ignorant back then. I like to call it carefree. Maybe I am only choosing to remember the good times, and I am sure there were bad times, but I wouldn’t change any part.
Another time in my life I would love to go back to is the carefree summers when I was about 10 or 12 (or basically any time during my elementary years). Man those were great. We had a pool in our back yard and our days were just spent playing outside with the neighborhood kids. No drama, no responsibilities. Everything was taken care of. Wouldn’t it be nice to live life carefree again?
I am not sure there will ever be a time that I would say “If I knew then what I know now”. When is that phrase appropriate? I can only think of two times that I would like to go back knowing what I know now. The first being my first year after college. I was a miserable human being and very unhappy. I wish I could go back and tell 22 year old Jen to enjoy life more, and that it all works out. The second instance would be the years that The Captain was in law school. The years leading up to our engagement. I wasn’t the happiest chica then either…but it all worked out in the end. It would be nice to know that.
So what about you? Is there a time in your life you’d like to visit or relive? When was it? Would you give yourself any advice? Would you spill the beans about the future?
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It would have to be before the year 2006, when both my mother’s (Grams adopted me) are alive. Just to spend time with them, love on them as much as I could. Knowing me…I would try to save them…but you can’t change the past… I read the book also and watched the movie…it was SOOO confusing unti like half way through the book…I did not get it at first…I knew he was time traveling but I was just VERY confused.. LoL… Nice post girl!!
-R
Yes it is a confusing book! lol hard to wrap your head around it sometimes! lol but I think that’s a very nice time to go back to. Would you want to know what would happen? or would you want to go back and spend time with them not knowing what you know now?
If I could go back to my college days I would have a lot more fun. I was too responsible back then with a serious boyfriend and jobs outside of classes. I wish I would have been more carefree!
I’m here from SITS… have a great weekend!
Thanks for visiting from SITS! I think that sounds great…now the question is if you had more fun in college would you have done as well as you did, and would you be doing what you are doing now?? lol
In a way, I think I’d do something similar to you, Jen. I’d like to go back to some of my unhappy moments and just know that things will be okay. Aside from that, I’d love to go back to my high school days (knowing what I know now). During those years, I cared very little for school work and doing well. It didn’t occur to me until my senior year and all of my friends were heading off to really nice colleges, that I had messed up big time. I spent the next four-five years working really hard; starting in community college then transferring to a University for my BA…I guess I could keep going, but yeah, I’d do that again (and so much better) if I could :).
I think that’s a good way to go back! I think i’d stay away from high school. I didn’t love it..lol…if I did ever go back to high school I think I’d tell myself to be less uptight and more like college Jen! ?
ahhhh the time traveler’s wife- LOVED that book so much and i have to say, they didn’t do a bad job in the movie.
hmm…i have thought about this question before, and while i would probably benefit greatly from a future me intervention in certain times, there’s nothing i would go back and change because i truly believe all of it was necessary to be who i am today. and to have found my husband- i wouldn’t want to do one day over that could change my path from leading to him ?
I agree with you…we ended up where we are because of our past. And I think it’s really sweet that you wouldn’t change anything!
You know, I don’t know that I would really want to know the future- maybe just a little reassurance that it all works out!
Happy Friday!
I would love to go back and know what I know today. Although, I would not have my husband if that was the case, but let’s say I wasn’t married to him, then I would if possible.
But, thinking of “what if” I find useless. I daydream enough, I think, thinking of “what if” is depressing, and what happened then was then and today is now.
One thing I was a bit confused is you said your college years were the best years of your life but you said you were miserable and unhappy? How as that the best years of your life?
College was the best time of my life! It was the year after I graduated, and the years that my now husband was in law school which which was from like 23-25 that I wasn’t really the happiest.
Had to stop by your blog after I found it on the Lady Bloggers. Our blog names are SO similar!
I’d like to relive the early days of dating my hubby. I miss those ooey gooey days!
Hmmm, I wonder if I would spill the secrets. I think I would go back a few years to right before my wedding day. I don’t think I would change much, but I would enjoy it all a bit more!
I can’t wait to see that movie. There’s really no point I’d want to go back to, except maybe some vacations. ? I’m really happy with my life now.