"My Heart Will Go On"

(Note: This blog entry is in response to the topic, "Assume that you could go back in time and prevent a great catastrophe, which event would you choose and why?")

On the 21^st of December, 2012, it was said that the world would end. Thank heavens, it didn't. But my world did end – shattered to pieces. Or maybe I'm just overreacting. But really, who cares if my heart couldn't go on?

 

If you're wondering about the cause of my heartache, blame Titanic – the movie I watched on the day (or night) the world was said to end. So I figured, if I could go back in time and prevent a catastrophe from happening, I'd choose to save Titanic from colliding to that giant killer iceberg and to keep it afloat until it reaches its final destination – New York – not the depths of the North Atlantic ocean.

If I could have had water-bending powers to get the giant iceberg out of Titanic's way, or the simple power to order the ship's captain to put the engine to a halt and wait until the iceberg melts away instead of risking the iron-made great ship to steer away from the unconsciously mighty iceberg, I could have saved hundreds of people: high- or low-class; captain, seafarer, servicemen, or passenger; children, women, and men. The scarce number of lifeboats available would have been useless and might have been until now. The magnificent RMS Titanic may have been preserved in a well-lighted and well-kept museum rather than magnificently depreciated down the bottom of those ice-cold waters.

However, if I have saved Titanic, there wouldn't have been a movie that grossed millions of dollars. There wouldn't have been no heart-warming and heart-breaking story of fictitious Jack and Rose. Titanic would be merely known as the famous largest ship afloat at the time of its maiden voyage who was blocked by an iceberg thus delayed in its arrival on the docks, rather than “the so-called unsinkable ship that didn't stand a chance against the mighty iceberg”. Titanic wouldn't have been as famous as it is now – only a mere part of history. Most of all, there wouldn't have been the greatest lesson learned: even the greatest has an end.