The story of Rip Van Winkle reminds me of so many movies I have seen in which the main character finds himself in a similar situation as Rip. The characters in these movies don't necessarily have a few beers and bowl a few games with some woodland elves only to pass out and wake up twenty years later. They do however, fall asleep and either wake up some years later to not have aged or wake up in another life or as someone else altogether. I'm sure there have been times when we all wished we could go forward or backward in time during our life. Or maybe we wished we could go to sleep and later wake up as a totally different person. However, how do all of the stories turn out, including Rip Van Winkle? The main character always wishes he could return to his true reality and have his old life back. I suspect this would be the case for us as well. Even if we could go back in time and change an event in our lives, who knows what effect it would have on our life in the present. Or what if you could go forward as Rip did and learn of your future, only you would be able to return to the present with the knowledge of things to come? I don't know about you, but I for one would be constantly mentally tormented with thoughts on how to change the future in my favor. Either way, we know this is not possible and the Story of Rip Van Winkle is only a fictional account. However, I prefer to live my life without regrets of past experiences or without worries of future uncertainties.
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