In Jail With Cronos

If the time machine was invented today, what would you do?

I think that a time travel machine would be the most vicious thing to ever be created and handed to people.

Think about it, if everyone could time travel anytime, the world would be in a constant loop of the past. Everyone would try to go back to their moments when they were feeling happy. People trying to revive other people by living in the past once again.

I think as fun as it may sound, if this would actually happen, it’d be tragic instead of entertaining.

People would go so much in the past that the future would become nothingness.

The future would be filled with people trying to go in the past, so, paradoxically speaking, in a decade, we would have no future.

Then a division would rise, people would give birth to other people and give them no access to time travel just so that they can create a future, a future where others could time travel.

Slavery would be normal, people creating history and future, and the big bosses would be the ones who would time travel through the history created by the slaves.

Then the question would be: What would happiness mean living in a world like that?

To be a slave that lives normally, just like you live now, or to be above the slave and live a life where you just sit and you can go anywhere where the slaves of society created a path?

It’s an interesting theory, but in the end, I still think it would be the most destructive thing to be created, yet, I repeat, only if handed to people very easily — to become like drinking water.

Otherwise, I guess it would be just a scientific experiment, which is alright.

Yet, to answer your question, what would I personally do if I could time travel right now?

I would travel in between the time travel. I would travel in between the heartbeats, the seconds, the breath every human takes. I would travel where it’s impossible to travel, what’s hiding in there?

Why does it even exist, the purgatory of time, it’s relative.

I would travel back to Cronos The God of Time, and ask him why?

Thanks for this interesting prompt question Simão Cunha. It was pretty intense to think about all this stuff.

Thank you Diana C. for this amazing opportunity as well!