Imagine waking up one morning and the entire world was backwards.
I don’t mean things are just flipped around—I mean time, actions, and everything else is completely in reverse. You wake up in your bed… but instead of getting dressed, you find yourself un-brushing your teeth and jumping back into your pajamas. Your breakfast leaps from your mouth back into the bowl, and the milk goes from your cup straight back into the carton. Yuck.
Outside, birds fly backwards through the sky. Leaves reattach themselves to trees. Rain falls up. Cars zoom in reverse down the street like they’re being rewound on a video. People walk backwards, talk backwards, and even laugh in reverse—it sounds like hiccups mixed with hiccups going in reverse!
School would be the wildest part. You’d start the day by saying “goodbye” to your teacher, walking backwards into your chair, and un-learning everything. Instead of taking a test, you’d give it back with the answers erased. If you made a mistake, it would fix itself. You could drop a pencil, and it would fly back into your hand. Pretty cool, right?
Even funnier—recess would start by coming back inside, and end by running outside. You’d climb up a slide from the ground to the top, and jump up onto monkey bars like a superhero. Tag would start by getting un-tagged, and you’d finish a race by walking backward over the starting line.
At home, you’d eat dinner in reverse (gross again), get undressed, and brush food onto your teeth. Eventually, you’d climb into bed with your eyes already closed, and fall awake.
The whole world would feel like a giant rewind button got pressed. Maybe it’s a magic spell. Or a trick from the universe. Or maybe—just maybe—time itself got bored and wanted to try something new.
But here’s the thing: even if the world turned backwards, I bet people would still smile. Even if smiles came before the joke. Because deep down, we’d all figure out how to have fun—no matter which direction time is going.
So, if tomorrow everything starts rewinding… just go with it. Who knows? Backwards might be the new awesome.
