Monday's discussion on time and how we view time and the past really got me thinking. Why is it that humans have such an interest in time? Just think of all the movies and books about time travel, changing the past, seeing the future. Groundhog's Day, the Terminator series, Michael Crichton's Timeline, and so many more that the mind boggles. Time is a staple in any good plot. Is our interest solely based in our desire to understand what has happened? Perhaps we feel a need to repeat things until we do get it right? Or could it be that we fear time because it reminds us that there is an end coming, so we seek to control it through media?
I was reminded of reruns of a sci-fi TV show that I watch sometimes about a government group that sends a man back 7 days in to the past whenever something very bad happens. For everyone else in the world what happened during those 7 days disappears. The man who time travels, however, remembers things that he heard and saw and did that only he will remember. Just like Bill Murray in Groundhog's Day, his present is possessed by the past. His future is actually the past. How must one react then to everything? Are these people the only ones who can truly appreciate their present since they view it from an entirely different angle then the rest of us? Can we, as non-time traveling beings, gain an understanding of life by grasping at what we might remember of our pasts?
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