The recent Marvel hit Doctor Strange delved into how to alter time. The title character’s life was one of privilege as a neurosurgeon. He collected expensive watches, but he ended up with just one, and it got broken. Time didn’t stop, though; he went on to become a mystical superhero who could manipulate time. I’d like to do that.
Raise your hands if you would like to go back to (for example) November 8, 2016 and do something different. Or if you could go back to just one moment in time and change it. What would you do with that “do-over?”
The idea of time stopping, like when you are enjoying a delicious meal, or just before a drink spills on your expensive dress, sounds tempting. In the aforementioned movie, Strange experiments with time by causing an apple, from which he had taken a bite, to return to its uneaten state and then progress to turning brown and rotten.
These days we use the remote and rewind favorite scenes in movies.
No moment in time is the same as the next. That is what makes it possible for us to reshape what happens next by living in the present. That does mean taking one’s eyes off the cell phone and taking in what is happening in the real here and now.
The next moment is coming. What will we each be doing with it?
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