Time Machine 1.0

I have always wanted to travel in time, after reading Ray Bradbury's "Sound of Thunder," in High School. And although scary, it made me excited about the idea of time travel.

And how surreal that now, each day, in my current life, I have the opportunity to travel back in time. As it happens in time travel, you come back as your older self to visit an earlier time. I travel back in time as an adult or "adult" or adult or adult and I revisit my years as a high schooler. What an interesting experience, and to be honest, if you told me that I would be a traveler "of both time and space" back to high school everyday, I would have not believed you, and would have discredited you altogether as a credible source of anything. But it just so happens that ten years (or so) later, my job is to travel back in time to my high school years.

The benefit to this travel is that I am now a ten year older version of myself than the one in high school. And what this travel has allowed me to understand is how lucky I am to be in this current version of myself versus the one that walked those hallways ten years prior. I can fully appreciate the cultivation of knowledge, culture, awareness-physical, mental, emotional that has happened over the past years. Many people do not have the luxury of this time travel, but I do and it has allowed me to see the contrast of the 14-18 year old girl to the person ten years later.

I see the scenes playing out in certain hallway crevices. The smells, they have not changed. I can see the ghosts of my previous choices still haunting the hallways, I see the high school version of myself standing around looking up at guys with googly eyes not realizing how special she is, listening to their bullshit or reading their 'bullshit on paper' and eating it up (knowing damn well that it's bullshit, but eating it up anyway). I can feel that girl walking around the commons FEELING the eyeballs staring and judging, I can feel her being uncomfortable. I see where she eats lunch, where she hangs out with friends, where she dances, how she feels in each room. Everything is SO real and SO important and SO dire to her. But looking at it with adult eyeballs it seems almost comical.

Extension of yourself

Everything you do is an extension of yourself.

You are how you drive.
You are how you move.
"You cannot be a better actor (and/or insert profession here) than you are a human"




All the actions you take are a manifestation of yourself. The choices you make are the actions you take. Also: ♫"and in the end, the love you make is equal to the love you take,"♫ just in case you forgot.