Time messages
I’m reading a comic book, or graphic novel as some of you prefer, that I got from the public library. Its “X-men Messiah Complex”. I’ve missed a few chapters in the X-men story. I like the artwork- yet the time travel plot line gets weary at times. Not so bad here but in so many Sci-FI stories its an often used tactic.
Makes me think since its so ‘impossible’ that it is so often fantasized about. I spontaneously asked the other day, “If you could go back in time and give yourself a message, what would it be?” Maybe there is a spiritual plane where time doesn’t operate the same way and messages can cross.
For me, there are a few moments that I wished I lived differently. I’d send back “flow” to that first week at Stuy as a freshman in English class. It was on the tip of my tongue… I never really got the hang of class participation until much later when someone remarked that I was stingy with sharing my ideas.
“Yes” to a certain invitation that I still think about. “No” to another one. “Travel more” to that younger me that thought about taking a year off of school.
Of course, with those ‘regrets’ we will never know for certain what may have happened if we chose the other road. Would it have been that catastrophic Marty McFly punch that almost ended his life before it started? We can’t go “back to the future”, but sometimes its very revealing what those messages and moments are for each of us.
