Turn back time

You should seriously reconsider before you decide it'd be great to turn back time.
I think that if you could turn back time, you’d very quickly want to get back to the future.

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Phrase: Turn back time

The older I become, the more I think it would be great to turn back time or the clock and be twelve years old again.

When I was twelve, summer vacation lasted forever, and I was free.

During the dog days of summer, a bunch of other guys and I would ride our BMX bicycles.

We’d explore forest trails, perhaps climb the rocky shore to look for secret caves, and fish for trout in a local pond.

Ah, those were the days.


When you turn back time, you go back to a past event or period in history.


Remember the movie Back to the Future with Michael J. Fox?

That was very cool.

It took me such a long time to comprehend how someone could go back to the future.

It didn’t make sense for my young and undeveloped reasoning processes.

As I sit here and reminisce about the good ol’ days, I realize that turning back the clock is probably not such a good idea after all.

We may believe we had loads of freedom in our childhood, but we didn’t.

I grew up in northeastern Canada.

In the summer, the sunset was about 9:00 p.m.

It sounds great, but my bedtime was before 8:00 p.m.

It sucked!

As adults, we may think that we’d like to turn back time and revisit our youth.

We tend to forget unpleasant things and only remember the great times.

I suggest you reconsider.

For me, I’m going to my fridge in my house and taking out one of my beers.

I will open it, sit in my favourite chair in front of my TV, and go to bed at the time I choose.

That, my friend, is freedom.


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