Christopher Willits, "Comet"

There’s no ticket back.

You ever do that thing where you’re laying awake late at night, thinking about where your life went wrong, and you let yourself imagine how it would be different if you were able to go back in time and change just one moment? And then, for the next few weeks, you sort of fantasize about altering that event? Like, it lingers in the back of your brain, all your possible pasts and all your potential presents? What would your moment be? For me, if I were actually able to do it — and let’s stipulate up front that I know that you can’t go back in time, that we are who we are and every second that has brought us up to now is irreversible and that dreaming of a different life is just a waste of time, but that when things are especially bleak there is probably a safety-valve effect, something that allows you to let off a little bit of pressure so that you can resume being crushed by the burden of your horrible existence a little while longer — I would go back to the moment where my dad met my mom and somehow distract him so that they never made contact in the first place. How about you? Tell us in the comments or on social media!

Gonna be nice and sunny today! Here’s something ambient by Christopher Willits, from his new one out next month. Enjoy!