prophecies

i was thinking about life today and thinking about the fact that if there were a time machine there are a couple of points in history that i would love to visit. i’d like to see adam and eve at the moment when they were ceremoniously dumped on earth and ask them what could possibly have persuaded them to give up heavan? i’d like to see the melancholy look on noah’s face as the rain pours down, the water rises, and his prophecies come true. i’d like to witness the birth of jesus and see how he finally leaves earth. i’d like to be there on the arabian peninsula to see the effect of the message that changes the world forever. i’d like to be in andalusia during the peak of islamic civilization and see what went wrong. i’d love to meet rumi and talk to him about shams and try to understand the nature of his feelings.

but then i realized that so much of what i think i want to see in the past is so very dependant on my beliefs today. may be our life is a just series of bets on what we think really happened in the past.