Last week-end my wife and I left for the big city, at least the one in our Province, to do some Christmas shopping and spent the night at a hotel as a night of get away. It was a good day that consisted of a lot of fun things done together. Although, her being pregnant for our first child made it a little tough for her since she’s been sick quite a bit. But I love every moment with her and it was a good time.
During the drive there she fell asleep, leaving me to my thoughts. If you’ve read my earlier blog, you’ll already know that I am constantly thinking of things – crazy things. One thought that came to my mind actually got me a little worried about its situation if it ever happened. When I told my wife about it when she woke up she straight up told me that I was weird so I don’t doubt that you will think the same. But, as part of my defense, I will say that there is a lesson behind this thought and it was overall a reasonable thought in the end.
As I was driving, I began thinking of times past, the days of kings and queens, of kingdoms and wide open lands – hundreds of years ago. I always thought it would have been great to live in the days when there were Castles and the knights of which would stride along on their mighty horses, readying themselves for battle. Well, then I thought, what if I were ever thrown back into the past somehow, like my present self being tossed into a wormhole of sort and ending up within that era? At first I thought of how awesome that would be! But then I wondered how could I possibly benefit the past? I’m sure that if any of us were thrown back into time we’d be left feeling a bit helpless as times due to being pampered by our way of life today? Think about it – modern day plumbing, electricity, cars, television, etc… It would be a big adjustment for anyone. That’s when I tried to think about how I could help in “inventing” these things to benefit these people. And you know what? I had nothing.
I couldn’t possibly help in creating a car, because like I’ve always said, the only things I see when I open up the hood of a car are questions. So, let’s rule that one out. How about electricity? Nope – that’s another fail. I could get as far as sending a kite to the air with a key attached to it and getting electrocuted, but after that I’d be no further along, or dead. I tried thinking of how I could help in the kitchen, like with things used to cook, but I couldn’t think of anything there either. When it came to guns I decided I wouldn’t even bother because I wouldn’t want to be responsible for the possibility of more deaths due to helping invent that. Even if I wanted to though, I wouldn’t be any help. Then I came to politics. It’s a shame, but I never really bothered myself a whole lot when it came to politics because it never interested me. Now being more mature than I was in high school I wish I did take an interest in it so I’d at least have some general knowledge of it all. The only thing I was ever really interested in was love and music.
I know those few things I mentioned are only a few things of many that could be a good start to help benefit those in the past, but those few things really opened my eyes to things. I thought I knew things, but evidently I don’t know much. It made me want to get back home and learn about these things and about how they worked and functioned. I wanted to increase my general knowledge about the most monumental things that really make the world go round in this modern day society. I don’t want to be clueless. Of course, I don’t mean I want to go earn a degree in all these fields, but learning at least the basics, or reading up on how it all works, would be better than nothing.
I know it is impossible to travel back in time, unless there’s a breakthrough in science, which is highly improbable, yet possible accord to Stephen Hawking but I won’t get into that, and so I don’t have to worry about being a total waste if ever thrown into that situation. And yes, I am weird for even worrying about that, but at least it motivated me to learn about all these things. Knowledge is power!
So there is a little look of what goes on inside my mind. Totally crazy stuff, mainly things that are foolish, but at least they keep me entertained.
Ultimately, it's also good for being a writer. :)
