The Time Machine

The other day I was surfing through the channels on the TV and came across an old movie, The Time Machine.  It was based on the H.G. Wells novel, and the novel and the film were favorites of mine as a child.

For those that may not know, H.G. Wells was an English author, rather famous to my mind, who wrote many science fiction stories and novels such as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau, and War of the Worlds.  More people know War of the Worlds from the movie that came out recently and in the 1950’s and also the recording and stage production that seems to come around every few years.

To digress: If you have not read any of H.G. Wells books, in short, you should.  Personally I feel he along with Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, George Orwell, Alvin Toffler and Edgar Allan Poe, and a few dozen other great writers of the times, should be mandatory reading in our schools.  These authors and their stories and poetry, surely and truly open minds to endless thought and imagination.

Digression over.

In the movie The Time Machine a scientist makes a ......time machine and can go backward and forward in time.  The title of the movie does give it all away. 

But in the book there is much more then just this neat bit of kit/technology happening.  The story itself touches on major social issues, but in an indirect way.  In a modern/recent version of the film, the scientist creates the time machine to go back in time to save his fiance, who he loved deeply and was killed in an accident. 

Pull the level back, you go back in time, push the lever forward and you go forward in time.The issue for the scientist is that every time he goes back in time to save her, she gets killed again.  He can go back and save her from the accident, but then soon after another accident occurs which takes her life. 

This is naturally very upsetting, frustrating and disheartening for him, so he takes the time machine to the future; looking for an answer.  In the future he meets a race of post-apocalyptic humanoids and also their great leader. The crux of this is the scientist seeks the answer as to why he could not save the woman he loved from dying, even though he created this great machine to move in and out of time.  Each time he went to save her, she was taken to her death regardless.

The great, and I might add, evil, leader in the future pitifully explained to the scientist, she was supposed to die, you could never prevent her death, but it was her death that was to be the impetus for you to create the time machine and move through time to find me now in the future.

Just a different, and evil, perspective.

So what does this have to do with debt, debt management, DMP’s, IVA’s bankruptcy, etc, etc, etc.....I’ll explain.

If we all had time machines we could go back in time, and for many of us, we would want to change our situation, not find ourselves in debt and struggling and all the stress that goes with it.  But maybe we have to go through it all and experience it.  Why look back, look forward and learn from the experience. Use our time machine to go ahead, not back.

Move forward by seeking out professional help and assistance, advice on what our options are and what we can do.  Then move forward to get into some form of debt management, or if need be, bankruptcy, or some other form of insolvency.

Push the lever on the time machine forward.