If I could travel through time, I wouldn’t hesitate in going back in time; reliving my carefree days as a kid or even venturing to a different time period altogether, just for a day. Personally, I wouldn’t care for travelling forwards in time. Having two kids, I naturally worry for their future and I don’t like the way this planet is heading. Besides, travelling to the future takes all the mystery out of it, and I guess I’ll get there eventually. 😉
I’ve always been a sucker for the past. I guess from an early age I continuously romanticised it. Whenever visiting old towns and houses in and around Sydney as a child, I liked to imagine what life was like back then. My childhood fantasies fired my imagination and elicited a life-long interest in history. From the ancients and medieval times to the Victorian era and the 1950s, there were very few periods in history that I didn’t wish to find out more about. I absorbed what the teachers taught us throughout school and I had no hesitation in choosing history subjects at University level as my electives. To travel back in time I hold no illusions though; the days of early medicine before anaesthetics and just being a woman in general was a tough life, but the past fascinates me and we can learn so much from it – there have even been reality television shows based on this very premise.
As a writer, the past has always been an endless source of inspiration for me. Travelling back in time and really living the experience would make the best possible research material for our stories, don’t you think?
If you could travel in time, would you go to the future or the past? Why? Is there a period in history that you like best?
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I would love to go back! As long as I had a way to get back to the present, I’d love to go back to all different eras. I’d never want to go to the future. I don’t want to know what might be ahead of us!
Hi Julie. Going back in time would be fun – as long as there was a way to get back to the present. I’m afraid I’ve become too used to all our modern technology! Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
Back, back, back. To visit with my mom!
That’s so sweet Savannah! I know what you mean though – I miss my dad. Hugs to you. x