“Temporal Malfunctions & Other Everyday Problems”

ChronoBear’s Unedited Notes (Probably from Last Tuesday)

[00:01 AM] There’s a half-eaten sandwich next to my copy of Recursion.
The book’s about rewriting time.
The sandwich is about my failure to plan meals.
Both are getting cold.

Anyway.

I’ve been thinking about why I keep coming back to sci-fi that hurts.
You know — time loops, paradoxes, people trying to save the world but mostly just making it worse.

I think it’s because time travel stories aren’t about time. They’re about guilt with lasers.

[01:12 AM] – Coffee #3
Everyone in these books is doing the same thing:
trying to fix what can’t be fixed.
Trying to un-say, un-do, un-lose.

And it never works.
It never should work.

Because if it did, the story would end.
And none of us actually want that.

[02:06 AM] – Existential Intermission
Fun fact: I once tried to build a time machine out of an old espresso maker.
It didn’t bend time, but it did explode, which felt emotionally similar.

[02:30 AM] – Philosophical Moment (Optional)
Sci-fi isn’t about machines.
It’s about the people who invent them because they’re bad at sleeping.
People like me. People like every scientist who just wanted to fix something they broke.

That’s why Dark Matter, Edge of Tomorrow, and Steins;Gate hit so hard — they’re not asking,

“Can we change time?”
They’re whispering,
“Can we forgive ourselves?”

[03:17 AM] – Reminder to Future Me:
If you ever do figure out how to time travel — bring snacks.
And maybe go easy on the whole “rewriting existence” thing.

[05:09 AM] – The Coffee Is Gone, But the Point Remains
If you’ve ever wished for a do-over — congratulations, you’re already a time traveler.
We all are.
We just do it emotionally.

And every time you read a good sci-fi story, you bend time a little — you visit a future, peek at a past, rerun a mistake.
That’s what makes it art.

[07:00 AM] – Final Log
Time isn’t broken.
It’s just complicated.
Like people.
Like me.
Like this blog post.

But if I’ve learned one thing from every paradox I’ve read, it’s this:

You can’t rewrite time.
You can only re-read it better.

– ChronoBear 🐻
Bearded. Caffeinated. Chronologically confused.