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Aeon Expeditions promises a journey into our past but does not guarantee that what happens will be meaningful.
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If you could spend an hour in your past, what would you do?
No, the most common answer is that we want to spend a few more moments with someone we lost.
Live long enough and you accumulate losses.
I had no idea back then that once you love something—anything—all you can ever be sure is that you’re going to lose it someday.
No matter what we do in the past, the future we return to remains unchanged.
I can’t go too far because we’re not supposed to go more than ten miles from where we are jumped.
In the orientation, they’d told us that we’d experience excruciating pain if we went more than ten miles from the jump-in point.
“Here at Aeon Expeditions,” he says, “we don’t change time. But time changes us. What will you discover when you look back with fresh eyes? The most important part of your journey happens after your hour is over.”
When you know how easily things can be taken away from you, you appreciate them more.
We think all we are is what we see on the surface. But there’s always more.
My heart stops. The name on the license isn’t Kate Montano. It’s Sarah Canford. The address is in Grand Junction, Michigan.
“No, but if we’re stranded here—as it seems we are—we can live it out differently, can’t we? I could stay off the PCH that night. And so could you. And then—”
“All good things begin with a maybe”
“It’s not what you look at that matters,” he’d said. “It’s what you see.”
Is it impossible to escape fate? No matter what I did, the accident happened anyway. Could it be that some things in life are simply beyond our control?
We all think we know what other people should do. But I see now that each of us is going on roads only we can see.”
“I’ve been believing that every bad thing that happens has an easily identifiable cause. A perpetrator and a victim. Guilty and innocent. I’d believed the outcome of everything is within our control, and when things don’t happen the way we think they should, someone must be to blame. But I see that’s not always how it is.”
“Everything we do, everything that happens to us—good or bad—relies on a million little moments in the past. We fool ourselves if we believe that we control every moment. But we can do something now to change our futures,”
