Road of Life

There have been many books and movies that have involved the subject of time travel. The movie; "Back To The Future" is one of the more well known, but there have been many others. I have often wondered what it would be like to go back in time, and have a conversation with your younger self, or travel into the future and see how your life might turn out. For me, these thoughts usually involve cars. What would it be like to travel back in time and show a modern day car to your 16 year old self?
I was inspired by a post my daughter-in-law Stephanie put on her blog last week titled; "Life". She was thinking of a question raised at the end of a book she had just finished; "What would surprise your younger self most about the life you are living"? In her examples, she was talking about going back maybe 10 years, but at my age, I was thinking more like 50 years.
These type of "time travel" ideas usually involve going back and trying to chance something that happened in your younger life, that you wish you could change, that would somehow alter the life you have today. This idea was touched on in the Garth Brooks song; "The Dance".  You might be able to miss some pain, but, how much of life would you miss in the process?
For those people that have suffered a lot of pain and disappointment in their life, I can see the reasoning. But, we never know what the future holds for us, and no matter how much we dream, we cant go back and get a "do over", or change the past.
All things considered, I am thankful for the life I have been able to live. I guess that's why they call it "the road of life" and all we can do is travel it the best we can, and try to enjoy the trip.

My "Road of Life".    I try my best to enjoy the trip.