In the lovely Netflix series called Better Call Saul which is a prequel to the super hit Breaking Bad, there’s a tense yet funny moment.
Saul asks a bunch of people what they’d do if they could build a time machine and go into the past. What would they change?
Everyone thinks up some moment and goes on to say that they would go back in time and do this or change that.
When Saul poses the same question to a scientist known as Walter White (fans know he’s no ordinary scientist!), the response is incredible!
Walter first reprimands Saul for asking about scienfitic impossibilities. “Time machine? Of course there’s no way such a thing can ever exist.”
He then proceeds to tell Saul what he’s actually looking for. That he simply wants to recount times where he regretted what he did in the past. And that he just wants to get his regret off his chest. So what he’s searching for is not a time machine, but a regret machine.
Regrettably true, isn’t it?