I learned that day, no matter what your intentions, do not mess with the time stream.
It was a simple job, really. I was going to make right what once went wrong. Like on that show Quantum Leap.
I had spent years working on my time machine. I started on this plan in my youth, with dreams of fame and fortune with it.
But the more I delved into it, the more I wanted to make my life worth something. If I was going to give up my life working on this project, I might as well, have given up my life for something wothwhile. That culminated when I discovered despite all my efforts, this was going to be a one shot deal. I never could figure out a way to transport matter through the timestream, I could only transport energy. That meant, the only option I had would be to transport my consciousness back, leaving my body a lifeless husk when I left.
So, literally, I would give up my life in this process. I had given too much of my lifetime to not try it. I was going to make the world a better place. What one moment in time would I change? What single event would have the greatest impact on the most people?
My machine was finished. All I had to do was to decide what I was going to fix.
So much human history. How does one decide what to change?
I could go back and create an invention early. I could go back and stop something from happening. So many options...
Finally, like a flash I had it. I fiddled with the PC hooked up to the machine, stepped into my device and my body hit the floor.
Blackness
I was all ready to stop Sept. 11. I would take out Bin Laden during the Clinton administration.
I opened my eyes and something was terribly terribly wrong.
a) I seemed to have no control over this body I was in.
b) There I was on my knees staring up at the body I expected to be in, Bill Clinton.
As he started to unzip his fly, I knew who I was in. And I didn't even have the ability to shut Miss Lewinski's eyes.
In the year 2525 If man is still alive If woman can survive They may find........
In the year 3535 Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies Everything you think, do, or say Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545 Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes You won't find a thing to chew Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555 Your arms are hanging limp at your sides Your legs got nothing to do Some machine, doing that for you
In the year 6565 Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510 If God's a comin' he ought to make it by then Maybe he'll look around himself and say ``Guess it's time for the Judgement day''
In the year 8510 God's gonna shake his mighty head He'll either say ``I'm pleased where man has been'' Or tear it down and start again
In the year 9595 I'm kinda wondering if man's gonna be alive He's taken everything this old earth can give And he ain't put back nothing...
Now it's been 10,000 years Man has cried a billion tears For what he never knew Now man's reign is through But through the eternal night The twinkling of starlight So very far away Maybe it's only yesterday...
In the year 2525 If man is still alive If woman can survive They may find.......