Aash is a secret time traveler who owns a jewelry store. In this monologue he’s talking to Arash, his best friend, about an important decision that lie ahead: Stay in the now and accept what you have, or leave this world behind for the known unknown.Jason, I want to ask you something. We’ve known each other a long time and we’ve seen each other through life’s ups and downs. If you were to choose to go back, back to when we were young, back to when your hopes were still present and your whole future lay ahead, would you do it? Right now, if I told you that I knew how to time travel, would you go back to that night when you got drunk and ran naked into the pond behind my house? Would you make a different choice so that you didn’t go through high school with the nickname Streak? What about the time that you lied traveling to venice and they found out and ridculed you…breaking your heart, really. Would you go back and be at least honest with her? I think about this a lot. Mostly, I think about Arash, and how if I would have been paying attention at the river, he would still…he would…be here. Would you do it all over again and have a chance to reverse doing everything you’ve regretted? Or… would you go forward and take the known unknown future and be whisked away to a place where everything could be totally new… like a fresh start? Just stay here…and have that be enough.
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