Time Travel Paradox
To travel back in time
To change what has been done
To alter the course of history
Make it tell a different story
But who dares foretell the events that follow upon that alteration?
Would that story be better?
Woe, woe, if we get it wrong
What is this thing we’ve done?
We’ve handed our ancestors an atomic bomb
Now our world is gone
The ultimate paradox
That’s time travel’s danger
71 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Paradox
crispina kemp 
I like it – and the view as a time traveler. So much can be written about time – so much.
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Oh yes. I do play with the idea… at times 🙂
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Maybe we’re already in a history altered by what was once the future’s time travelers.
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Would we know? No, we would not.
I remember, years ago now, a theory that flying saucers were visitors from our future. i.e. time-travellers.
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I started writing a story to that effect, but couldn’t make it work at the time. Maybe I should have tried writing it at a future time. 😉
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That’s the way to do it. Then you know you know what happens… by looking back 🙂
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People always say if they could go back in time they’d stop whatever disaster… Of course that is useless as there will be others in its stead!
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Stop one, cause another.
Many a writer has explored this paradox. Seems at one time I did nothing but read their books. One after another, after another
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Indeed! It’s been explored and then some!
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Oh yes. It still intrigues me though
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If I could travel back in time to sometime within my lifetime, I would go back to the 90’s and do my damndest to do some political bullshit and save the world from climate change (and also introduce new biopharma techniques to getrich, but whatever)
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I wish that you could.
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Could you please add a note to this that this is my work. Thank you.
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