The other day, I took a quick flight back to Hong Kong. I found myself wandering on one of the streets in Kowloon, near where I grew up. On this narrow street, all the buildings were either two or three stories tall. The weather was absolutely beautiful with clear blue sky and minimal clouds. On this street, I saw a woman, an older lady, and a two year old little girl climbing up a public stairway up to the roof top of a three storied amber-colored building. I decided to follow them from behind. The adults were chattering about immigration and family matters while simultaneously enjoying the amazing views of swaying river boats and Hong Kong skyscrapers across the water. The little girl with a pony tail clothed in her favorite deep blue velvet dress was left alone meandering around. Something soon was going to happen to the little one and I was going to prevent it. If I didn't, this little girl will forever be traumatized from this experience throughout her adult life. I knew because that little girl was me from the past.
Now, wouldn't it be marvelous if we could travel back in time, or even into the future! I am currently reading an interesting book called Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku. Mr. Kaku is a renowned theoretical physicist. I rarely read such brainy scientific literature, but I couldn't help being intrigued about what Mr. Kaku had to say about teleportation and time machines. There are theories about black holes and wormholes, the latter being shortcuts between two places in the universe. Mr. Kaku further explained that if the universe rotates, and you were to go around the universe, you will come back before you left - hence, theoretical possibility of time travel. But the remarkable advances in science and technology over the years have now made teleportation actually possible?! Yes, you heard me right! According to Mr. Kaku, it's no longer science fiction but a science fact. Well, at the level of atoms that is. But simply the fact that it is possible, is incredible! Like Mr. Kaku said, "impossible" is often a relative term. Sometimes, I wonder if those extraterrestrial objects and aliens that some people claimed to have seen are our descendants on aircrafts from the future traveling back to our time to visit. I would like to believe it is feasible. We are constantly undergoing change. We used to look like monkeys. Maybe in the future we will look like creatures with thin bodies and colossal eyes. If we could believe that we can build planes to fly, I would like to believe that in the future we can build machines to take us back in time.
Time travel has always been an intriguing fantasy for me. If I can choose a point in time to travel, I would probably pick traveling back in time instead of the future. I want to leave room for some hope and anticipation in the future. Life would be uninteresting and pointless if I knew my destiny. I wouldn't need to use my brain or have any room for personal growth! But the past is a different story. I can revisit history, perhaps even going as far back as the dinosaur periods. I want to see how my ancestors lived and how they handle their daily activities that we now often take for granted. I want to help solve inexplicable myths and crime cases. I want to change some parts of my past and redo it all over again. For instance, preventing myself from touching some yellow viscid spit that day when I wore my favorite blue velvet dress! Yes, it was traumatic because I still remember it today! And heck, what we all probably desired most, I want to visit my younger parents and force them to purchase some stocks and real estate that had increased exponentially in value now! Haha. But I know situations and circumstances had to happen to lead us exactly where we are today. We can't change the past. But how cool it would be if I could check off "time travel" on my to-do list! That would definitely be an ultimate journey of a lifetime! 