The girl I was - contest week #277 / La niña que fui - c (eng-esp)

Greetings, friends.

If I could travel through time, I wouldn't hesitate for a second. I would go straight to the past, not to change anything I've experienced, but to see myself as a child. I would love to be able to observe myself from a corner, like an invisible spectator, watching how I played, how I laughed, or how I dealt with my little dramas back then.

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I wouldn't touch anything, of course. Nor would I go near myself to whisper anything in my ear, or to warn me about the mistakes I would make later.

That would be interfering, and I don't want that, because the mistakes and successes I've made are what have shaped the woman I am today.

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I simply want to see her, to see myself, with the perspective that time provides. I want to remember what I was like before life molded me with its demands and responsibilities.

I think we all carry within us that child we once were, but sometimes we forget what we were really like.

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As for the future, I'm not interested. I don't want to know what will happen. If I traveled to the future and saw something good, perhaps I would become overconfident and not put the same effort into achieving it.

And if I saw something bad, I would spend my life anxiously waiting for that moment to arrive, or worse, trying to avoid it and possibly unintentionally causing it. I prefer to live without knowing. Let life surprise me. That's why I would only travel to the past, just to observe, to remind myself of where I come from.

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Saludos, amigas.

Si pudiera viajar en el tiempo, no lo dudaría ni un segundo. Me iría directo al pasado, pero no para cambiar nada de lo que he vivido, sino para verme a mí misma cuando era niña. Me encantaría poder observarme desde una esquina, como una espectadora invisible, viendo cómo jugaba, cómo me reía o cómo me enfrentaba a mis pequeños dramas de entonces.

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No tocaría nada, por supuesto. Tampoco me acercaría a decirme nada al oído, ni para advertirme de los errores que cometería más tarde.
Eso sería interferir, y no quiero eso, porque los errores y aciertos que he cometido, son lo que han conformado a la mujer que soy hoy.

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Simplemente quiero verla, verme a mí, con la perspectiva que da el tiempo. Quiero recordar cómo era antes de que la vida me fuera moldeando con sus exigencias y responsabilidades.
Creo que todos llevamos dentro a ese niño que fuimos, pero a veces se nos olvida cómo era realmente.

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En cuanto al futuro, no me interesa. No quiero saber qué pasará. Si viajara al futuro y viera algo bueno, quizás me confiaría y no pondría el mismo empeño en conseguirlo.
Y si viera algo malo, me pasaría la vida angustiada esperando que llegara ese momento, o peor aún, tratando de evitarlo y posiblemente provocándolo sin querer. Prefiero vivir sin saber. Que la vida me sorprenda. Por eso solo viajaría al pasado, solo para observar, para recordarme de dónde vengo