Once, no More!

There are a few things that happen only once in a lifetime. Can you bring back the day you first set foot inside school? How about the first time you fell in love? And how about the first time that you wore a graduation caps? Can you bring back those times? Time has a tendency, or a characteristic, if you will, of moving in only one direction. Of course, if the principles of relativistic time dilation (proposed so profoundly by the great Albert Einstein) are true, then one should be able to travel back in time given that a speed higher than the speed of light is attained. Has your scientific mind already gotten to work? Are you already in the process of figuring out the little details like the elemental composition of the rotor blades and the angular bending of the hyper-drive? If so, I implore you to come back to reality. Such things are best left to experts; you don’t want to go meddling in things that are not your business. We are ordinary people, you and I, and we must abide by the laws of current technology. Jetpacks and hyper-drives are best left to the imagination of the likes of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. The best we can do is accept the way things are and try to make the best of it.
Sure, we can’t revert the flow of time. It must always flow in the direction of its choosing (imagine an alternate universe where time always flows backwards! Oh, the possibilities!), but that doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy things while they last! You won’t get to wear that high school graduation gown again, so you might as well have a blast while you can! A high school graduation is different from, say, a preschool graduation because you are mature enough as a person to realize the importance of it. When you were made to wear that preschool graduation gowns, you had no real idea about things. The only thing that mattered back then was play time. The only worries were limited to the breaking and acquiring of new toys. But when you are in high school, wearing that graduation hat, your understanding of life is a little stronger than before. A high school graduation cap and gown signifies to the world that you are ready to join the ranks of the likes of your father, mother, uncles and aunts. It tells the world that you are ready to pursue your destiny (whatever that might be). The day is yours, so go and enjoy it! You will look back at the whole thing someday down the line and smile. That, I suppose, should be reward enough, and compensate for the lack of time travel.
Maybe they will invent time travel in the future so we can live moments again and again till we grow so bored that we move on of our own accord. Until then, it is advisable to live each moment fully!

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