What if you had the chance to redo your life all over again, at what point in your past would you go back? We sometimes ask ourselves this question, and wonder what or where we would be if this wishful thinking became a reality.
This question crosses my mind when I’m feeling frustrated (tao lang po!) or bored or just for the lack of something to write here. If my tooth fairy would grant me those time machine wishes, I would go back to three moments in my life.
One is during my university years. I should have taken a dormitory in UP so that I could have spent more time studying (or making lakwatsa with Babs and Egay), rather than commuting four hours every day. Honestly, up to now I still have this recurring dream of attending a class only to find out that it is already finals time, and I am not prepared because I was always previously absent. Believe me, it’s like a nightmare every time I dream about this.
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| UP Kalayaan Dormitory. I have always wondered what it's like to live there. |
The second one is 1992 when I had the chance to go on a second UP Concert Chorus world tour. My parents and sisters were already in Cebu at that time, so I decided to follow them and start working. My Yellow Car Group, Egay, Paul, and Nu all went back on tour, while the bianangs (Meh Ann, Cynthia and I) stayed behind. Deep in my heart, I wanted to join again, because the world tour was a rich and intoxicating experience for me, and I wanted to do it one more time. But I felt I had to be an adult and escape from that Neverland. Now I’m thinking, maybe one more tour couldn’t have hurt? Again, to this day a dream of being left behind by a flight to the US haunts me every now and then.
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| The high of singing with the UPCC was hard to let go |
The third one is the most recent. I would go back five years ago when I attempted to be an entrepreneur. I shouldn’t have started a business when I transferred to Bacolod. I have tried putting this big regret off my mind, but the money spent and the energy wasted couldn’t be swept away. I should have invested in the stock market, or have taken a trip to Paris (or the US or Japan) with the family instead. Ever heard of charge to experience?
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| One of my business ventures |
Going back to those points, however, could definitely trigger some events that would not give me what I have now. Like if I had had better grades in school, then maybe I would have been a top executive in a big company and forever be married to my career. Or if I had embarked on another world tour, then maybe I wouldn’t have gone to Cebu and met the Hubby and had my wonderful kids. Or if I had kept the business money instead, then I would have had moolah in the bank…wait, that would be nice, right?
Sige na nga, Michael J. Fox. I’m setting my time machine to March, 2006.
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Movie Reviw: The Butterfly Effect (2004)
The Story:
Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single, working mother and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evan's friends and mother hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble. As Evan grows up he has fewer of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him, making it possible to change the sequences of his life.
My Review:
The movie delves into the possibility of changing one event in one’s life in the hope that he will get the perfect happy ending. Even though Evan’s character only wanted to correct the mistakes he had in his life, altering one part brought about a series of changes that were not too ideal for him. So he goes on and on.
I watched this film twice in a row just to better understand the sequences of events in Evan’s life. Ashton Kutcher did an excellent job in making me believe that playing God was the most rational thing to do to save the lives of the people he loved. But every time he did this, something tragic happened. In the end, he found the perfect time to alter, but in the process, sacrificing the love of his life.
Maybe that time machine idea isn’t the smartest thing for me after all.
Trivia:
The title is a reference to a short story by Ray Bradbury in which a group of people travel millions of years into the past and one of them unknowingly steps on and kills a butterfly which dramatically alters the future.
Josh Hartnett, Seann William Scott, and Joshua Jackson were each offered the role of Evan.
Was one of the most widely read unproduced scripts in the industry. It wasn't until Ashton Kutcher stepped up to exec produce the movie that it was greenlit.
In early versions of the script, the character of Evan was originally Chris Treborn. When the "T" is moved over, it becomes "Christ Reborn". This was changed to Evan Treborn, which is a play on "Event Reborn".
Elden Henson shot all of the later "normal" scenes with his character first because he had to gain around twenty pounds in one month for the later timelines in which his character is crazy. He was to look bigger as crazy Lenny and thinner as normal Lenny. To the filmmaker's amazement he accomplished this.
Ashton Kutcher did extensive research on psychology, mental disorders, and chaos theory to prepare for his role in this film.
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