Our memory is merciful only because the instinct of self-preservation does not allow it to bother us with unpleasant memories. But at the same time, each of us thought: "What would have happened if I had not bought a ticket for that plane or met that girl?" And it seems to us that everything would be much better. While some people yearn for unlived lives, others believe they can truly change the past.
Instructions
Step 1
Psychologists. It is believed that the past does not exist, there are only memories of it. This point of view is called solipsism. Solipsists, without going into details, explain the world around them through their own existence. This lamp is on because I think about it. The earth is flat because all scientists believe it. Of course, the documented past cannot be erased (this is the same as losing its adequacy). But small rough edges (an obsessive memory of a twenty-year-old exam or gossip that no longer makes sense) can be corrected. This is done through meditation exercises, relaxation techniques, or psychoanalysis sessions.
Step 2
Magicians. These are people who, with the power of their minds, can change the surrounding reality. Whether this is true or not is difficult to verify. After changing the past, we change the present, which means that we cannot compare one past with another. The mind of an ordinary person is designed in such a way that it cannot exist in two realities at once. But there is a magic school at the junction of magic and laughter therapy, which is called Simoron. In order to change the past, you have to climb onto the toilet and … jump from it into another universe. Jumped? Excellent! From this moment on, a new life begins.
Step 3
Theoretical physicists. Each of them will be happy to tell you what a wormhole is and how to use it. Nora is a kind of distortion of space and time, a tunnel through which you can get from Moscow-2011 to Paris-1734, fly into a parallel universe, or even get lost in the space between the worlds. All this is incredibly exciting and amazing. But it will be possible to turn to physicists for real help only when they understand such concepts as exotic matter and quantum gravity.
Step 4
Sci-fi. It is worth reading them, if only because they have tested, probably, all possible plots associated with a change in the past. For example, in the story "And Thunder Came" by Ray Bradberry, a butterfly that was crushed in prehistoric times changes language and political views in the distant future. In the short story "The Three Deaths of Ben Baxter" by Robert Sheckley, it is said that the range of possibilities is limited, but fate, fatality, predestination will still take its toll. Very interesting in this sense is the story of Isaac Asimov "The End of Eternity" about a secret organization that exists in Eternity - a kind of closed space with its own passage of time. The Organization changes the past and future of people living in Time. What is the result of trying to avoid difficulties, alleviate suffering, push and save? To the fact that a person loses his capabilities, his experience and chances for a happy future.
