5 Amazing Places to Time Travel — If Given a Chance to Time Travel

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Hitler paradox

“You travel back to the past and kill Hitler. So history changes and now, there is no Hitler.

Now, if Hitler doesn’t exist, why would you travel back in the first place to kill him?”

Time Travel is so interesting. Being a teenager I was intrigued as to what if I get to see something of the past or just see what is in store for me in the future. There is always an option to have a consultation with a fortune teller or even a palmist. But the excitement to watch it in real-time is so damn thrilling. I am highly influenced by Netflix Series -Dark.

If given a chance to time travel in a time machine, I would jump at the opportunity like jumping off a cliff. Not at all bothered about my current life nor the future.

5 Amazing Places I would like to Time Travel:

1. My Childhood: I have a very faint memory of childhood, especially as a baby till I got to school-going age. Birth to pre-nursery. I would like to see myself. My time with my parents, my birth, all those happy faces, and me crying. How awesome !! My pre-nursery time, my first time with my teachers, bench partners, me swinging. It’s just too much emotion to hold.
2. Birth and Death of Jesus Christ: Being a Roman Catholic and studied in a Convent School run by nuns, it’s imperative to witness Christ’s Birth as part of school plays and Death of Christ i.e. Passion of Christ in Lent as a part of church plays. All the important occurrences made me want to witness all this. Just be a mere spectator from the future. See Jesus Christ, Mother Mary, and all those stories and parables which I read in the Bible.
3. Indian Freedom Era: As a kid, while studying Indian History in textbooks and imagining Mahatma Gandhiji’s freedom struggle movement, incidents like the Civil Disobedience movement, Simon Go-Back, Bhagat Singh, Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, etc. I would like to revisit all this. When I visited the Museum at Amritsar, there were a lot of memoirs related to the freedom struggle, watching it gave me shivers and chills down my spine.
4. World War I and II: In the 9th and 10th classes, World War I and II was part of my curriculum. Thinking of wars going on for 4 plus years was beyond my imagination. The trauma, difficulties, hardships, and suffering of soldiers, the families, kids, the warring countries, the other member countries, and the rest of the world is unfathomable. I want to feel that pain.
5. Holocaust: I remember very vividly that one of my friends had told me his intention of visiting Germany and all those places related to World War I and II and the Holocaust. The reasonings was as he had read books related to such world happenings, he wanted to visit these places in the current time where such incidents happened. It was that time I got this thought what if I get a chance to relieve this. Reliving doesn’t mean that I want it to happen again, but just be part of that event and be an eyewitness.

I don’t want to change anything in the past, as I feel what has happened, has happened. No one can change anything. It was supposed to happen. Those were horrific events that great men could not change, so I don’t stand a chance to change any event. Acceptance is a great virtue.

“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.

- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart