If You Have a Time Machine, Will You Choose to Travel Back to the Past or to the Future and to Which Moment You Want to Be and What Will You Do?

“Run into a store, ask what year it is. When someone answer, yell “It worked!” and run out cheering”. This is a popular joke about time machine I’ve read in a funny website. It can’t be denied that for people who enjoy imagining crazy things like me, the idea of “being capable of travel purposefully and selectively through time” sounds exceedingly marvelous and tempting. I’m so excited at the prospect of being able to travel through time that I find myself wondering hazily whether I should go back to the past or to the future. After considering pros and cons, I’ve decided that it’d be considerably risky to know too much about my future, as if I do, my contemporary life might change forever. Thus, if I have a choice, I will be glad to experience my childhood once again.
I want to go back to the early of 21st century, when I reached the age of 6 and began to go to primary school. Like for many people, for me my childhood is one of the most precious things in my life. Whenever something reminds me of my childhood, I find myself lost in beautiful memories. It’s not because I want to change something in the past or to make up for my fault that I choose to travel back. All I want is to experience it one more time, to go back to the time that is meant the most to me.
It was in 2003 that I wrote my first letter and was able to write my name properly. It was then that I was taught to read my favourite book “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” without my mom’s help. When I was in the first grade, my most noteworthy day was not the first day I went to school, but the day I was called to read out loud an article and I couldn’t do it fluently and was being laughed at. That experience literally changed my life, since which I realized that I must study hard to catch up with the rest of the class. It’s not only the feeling of being able to read and write that makes me aspire to go back to my childhood, there are also countless other memorable things: Kid’s games such as blind man’s buff, cat & mouse’s game, dragon snake…; old food like candy, multi-flavoured yoghurt; anime series… It’s fun to look back and realize how easy life was when you were a carefree, curious, convivial kid. Perhaps nothing in this world could cause as great depression as missing a cartoon episode. Life was nothing but fun and laugh.
People have done researchs on age potion, which makes you immortal and young forever. I want to stay young, too, for the same reason. Being innocent, carefree, blissful all the time is undeniably worth craving for. Thus, I’d like to use the time machine to go back to my childhood, breath the “childish” air again and make the most of it.