If you could relive one day from your past, which day would it be and why?
Why relive a day in the past?
To enjoy the exquisite pleasure again? It wouldn’t be the same.
To correct a stupid mistake? How might that change the present? For better? Or for worse?
So many past experiences, good, bad, and indifferent, have made us what we are today. How would we be changed by reliving one day, especially if we changed something? Would we be happier? Would we be sadder?
Were the good old days really that good? Were the bad old days really that bad? How might our present knowledge, shaped by our past, affect our experience of that day?
Did a bad experience change us for the better? Or a good experience change us for the worse? What might happen if we changed that experience?
Even if we simply visited the day and watched what happened as an observer, our experience of that day would be different from what it was at the time.
The past made us what we are today, for better or worse. If we changed something, it would affect us in unknown ways. If we left things alone, it would still change us in unknown ways.
Such is the time travel paradox. We can’t relive the past without changing our experience of it, and our memory of it.
No. Today is enough for me.
Greenacre 9 