For my last creative writing paper I was having a really hard time coming up with something to write. I origionally started this story but decided to scrap it because I think it would be better addapted as a screen play. Well, not so much the script itself so much as a movie with special effects.
We cannot live and not change. Everything that we do, every choice that we make changes who we are. Sometimes dramatically, sometimes not so much. But when we make a choice we cease being the person we were and become the person that we are. We are different, forever. That’s that.
But, what if one day someone decided who they were wasn’t good enough? What if one day that someone looked in the mirror and decided they didn’t like who they were? Or if that someone had done something so terrible to someone that they loved, or messed up their life so badly they didn’t think they could go on? So that someone went back.
That someone was me.
Right off, I’d like to say that time has enough paradoxes all on its own without people messing with it. Such as the paradox of: if we are supposed to spend two hours outside of class studying for every hour that we spend in class (let’s say you spend 6 hours in class, making a total of 18 hours dedicated to class work) when do you have time to have a job or make friends or sleep? All three which are things which are important to a college student’s survival.
Or why is it that an unpleasant experience takes forever, such as being submitted to an excessively boring professor, but a pleasant experience seems to pass away almost instantly? And how is it that we can have a moment that freezes in time? And how does it get away from us? There are a lot of these questions. And when it comes down to it, there never seems to be enough time where we need it.
Time doesn’t need our approval or blessing to exist. Whether we are here or not, it passes just the same. Time doesn’t live through us, we live through it. And we have no business messing with it.
What I wanted to do with this was have a girl who went back in time to fix a mistake. It would be a concept of time travel where one literally goes back into their former selves. So you couldn't accidentally run into yourself because you are yourself. This girl changes the mistake she made but because she remembers the prior timeline it creates a sort of paradox. Alternate timelines start to blend within the same reality. So, when someone makes a choice you can see them living the concequence of the choice that they made, and the choice that alternate them made. I thought it would be really neat to show the split. I also thought that it would be really neat if when someone wasn't satisfied with the choice they had made they might decide to jump alternate them and live their life instead. But, I think this is one of those things that needs to be seen.
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