Blog 751 – 09.11.2017
Another Reason To Time Travel

I posted in a recent blog that the one reason for time travel into the past is to relearn lessons lost or forgotten or perhaps learn for the first time lessons missed and not to change the way things or people or places were. This morning I thought of another reason for remembering the past – to be reminded that things will and do always work out for the best. Don’t think so? Have a horrible or tragic marriage? Did it produce children? Whether it did or not that is a good thing. And how very many good things result from things we often label, “bad.” That always reminds me of the song lyric, “There ain’t no good guys, there ain’t no bad guys, there’s only you and me, and we just disagree ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So let’s leave it alone. We can’t see eye to eye.” Those subjects we cannot agree on are always best left alone in the present, past, or the future.

I began reading again a book I have read many times by Louise Hay, the wonderful self-help author who recently passed. She was ninety and had learned a lot in this life. She wrote in the beginning of her book, “Just disregard anything you don’t agree with and get what you can.” A very wise way to read. She went on to say that if she used a particular word that you might not care for just mark through it and write in the one you prefer. She had something to share and wanted to get as much as she could across. What a lady, she will be greatly missed.

Traveling back in time in our mind should always be a quick trip for otherwise we will miss too much of the now where our focus best serves us. But it is natural for especially older folks to pull out the albums in their heads and attempt to relive some of those more precious moments in their past. While you are there, look around a bit and be honest. Often we have remembered it incorrectly, not the way it was because we somehow twisted those images to fit a fantasy that perhaps never was. Much of our pain, hurt, and anger are tied up in false memories of injustices that exist only in our minds. Time traveling in the past can clear much of that up if we let it. But by far one of the best reasons to go back in time is to be reminded that indeed we have never been alone and the promise that all things work for good is true.

Sitting there in your easy chair or wherever you are as you read this, your traveling friend is here to remind you to that there is no one in the wide world quite like you and without your saucy sassy addition this life for many of us would be a far less zesty tasty stew.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White