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 happen if I did not buy a ticket for that plane or did not meet that girl?" And it seems to us that everything would be much better. While some people yearn for unhappy lives, others believe that they can really change the past.
Instruction manual
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Psychologists. It is believed that the past does not exist, there are only memories of it. This view is called solipsism. Solipsists, if not going into details, explain the world around them through their own existence. This lamp is on because I think of it. The earth is flat because all scientists believe in it. Of course, it is impossible to erase a documented past (this is the same as losing its adequacy). But small roughnesses (an obsessive memory of an exam twenty years ago or gossip, which no longer makes sense) can be corrected. This is done through meditation exercises, relaxation techniques, or psychoanalysis sessions.
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Mages These are people who, by the power of their minds, can change the surrounding reality. Like it or not, it's hard to check. After all, changing the past, we are changing the present, which means we cannot compare one past with another. The mind of an ordinary person is designed so that it cannot exist in two realities at once. But there is a magic school at the junction of magic and laughter therapy called Simoron. In order to change the past, you have to get on the toilet and … jump from it into another universe. Have you jumped? Fine! From this moment begins a new life.
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Theoretical physicists. Each of them will gladly tell you what a wormhole or 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 worlds. All this is incredibly exciting and amazing. But it will be possible to turn to physicists for real help only when they deal with concepts such as exotic matter and quantum gravity.
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Science fiction. It’s worth reading them, if only because they have run through, probably, all possible plots related to a change in the past. For example, in the story “And the Thunder struck”, Ray Bradberry, a butterfly that was crushed in prehistoric times, changes the language and political views in the distant future. In the story “Three deaths of Ben Baxter” by Robert Sheckley, the set of possibilities is limited, but rock, fatality, predetermination will take its toll anyway. In this sense, Isaac Asimov’s short story “The End of Eternity” about a secret organization that exists in Eternity - a certain enclosed space with its own passage of time is very interesting. The organization is changing the past and future of people living in Time. What is the result of trying to avoid difficulties, ease suffering, push and save? Moreover, a person loses his opportunities, his experience and chances for a happy future.
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Longing for the past and worrying about the future, a person loses the opportunity to live in the present.
Useful advice
Psychologists, physicists, science fiction writers and even magicians often say that a negative past is an excellent fuel for a happy future.