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โ์๊ฐ์ ๋๋ฆฐ๋ค๊ณ โฆ?โ
์ก์ฒด ์์ ๊ฐ๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋
น์ด๋ ค ์ปต์ ํ์ ๋ ํฐ์คํผ์ ์์ํ ๋ฐ๋๋ฐฉํฅ์ผ๋ก ๋๋ฆฐ๋ค.
โ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ค๊ณ ? ์๊ฐ์ฌํ์ ๋งํ๋๊ฑฐ์ผ?โ
๋ง์ ์ผ๋ฒ๋ฌด๋ฆฐ๊ฒ ์๋๋ผ ์ง๋ฌธ์ด์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ํ์ธ ์ํค๋ ค๋๋ฏ ์ฌ์ฐจ ๋ง๊ผฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ฆฐ๋ค.
โ๊ทธ๋ด์๋ ์๊ณ .โ
โ์์๋ฃ๊ธฐ ์ฝ๊ฒ ์ค๋ช
ํด๋ด.โ
โ์ดํดํ๋ ค๊ณ ํ์ง๋ง.โ
โ์ต๊ทผ์ ์ํ ๊ฐ์๊ฑฐ ๋ณธ์ ์์ด? SF? ํํ์ง?โ
์ฌ์ฐจ ๋ง๊ผฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ ค ์ง๋ฌธ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ์กฐํ๋ค ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ต์ ์ฐพ์๋ค๋ ๋ฏ์ด ๋ง์ ์ผ๋ฒ๋ฌด๋ฆฐ๋ค.
โ๊ทธ๋ผ ๋ค๋ฅด๊ฒ ํ์๊นโฆ?โ
โ์๊ฐ์ ๋ถ์ก์ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํด?โ
๊ทธ๊ฑด ๋ ์๊ฐ๋ ์ด์์ ์ก๋๊ฒ ๋งํผ์ด๋ ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๋ง์ฒ๋ผ ๋ค๋ฆฐ๋ค.
์ ๋ฆฌ์ฐฝ ๋ฐ๋ํธ์ ์กด์ฌ๊ฐ ๋๋ต ํ๋ค. ์๋ ๋ด ์
์ด ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์์ง์๋ค. ๊ฑฐ์ธ์ธ๊ฐ. ๋ถ๋ช
๊ฑฐ์ธ์ ์๋๋ค. ์ท์ฐจ๋ฆผ๋ ๋ค๋ฅด๊ณ ํค์ด์คํ์ผ๋ ๋ค๋ฅด๋ค.
โ๋ฐ๊พธ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ ์์ง ์์?โ
์์ง. ๋ถ๋ช
๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋๋ตํ์ค ์์๋ค.
โ์์ด.โ
๊ทธ๋๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๋๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์ ๋๋ ๋์ผ.
๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ ๋, ์ง๊ธ์ ๋, ๋ฏธ๋์ ๋.
์ด๋์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ด๊ฐ ์ํ๋ ๋ด๊ฐ ์์๊น.
์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๋ฏธ๋๊ฐ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์๋ ์์๋.
๋ฏธ๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ง๋๊ฐ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ง์ ๋ฐ๊ฟ ์ ์๋ค๋ฉด ๊ทธ์ ๋์๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ๋ง์ด ๋ต์ธ๊ฐ.
โTurning back timeโฆ?โ
The teaspoon, stirring to dissolve powder in water, slowly begins to spin in the opposite direction.
โYou mean going to the past? Are you talking about time travel?โ
The question is repeated, not to fill silence, but to make clear it was a questionโnot a mumbled thought.
โMaybe. You could say that.โ
โThen explain it. In a way I can understand.โ
โDonโt try to understand.โ
โHave you watched any movies lately? Sci-fi? Fantasy?โ
The intonation rises again, signaling another questionโthough the words trail off as if an answer has already been found.
โIf you could, would you have done things differentlyโฆ?โ
โDo you think you can hold on to time?โ
The thought sounds as absurd as trying to catch a bullet mid-flight.
A voice answers from the other side of the glass. Or maybeโitโs my own lips moving. A mirror? No. Itโs not a mirror. The clothes are different. The hairโs different.
โIs there a past you wish you could change?โ
There is. I thought I said that.
โNo,โ
Even if I went back, Iโd still be me.
The past me, the present me, the future meโ
Where does the version of me I want most truly exist?
Did the future I long for ever exist in my past?
And if the future could somehow rewrite even whatโs already gone, is moving forward all we have left.
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Mastered by Benny Bennefit @ Benny.B Studio