I came across an edit on tiktok about the scene "Don't let me leave Murphy" from Interstellar
And someone commented "If he stayed the ghost wouldn't have been there to tell him to stay"
Which I think means he would've gone either way
Yk what this reminds me of? The phrase that Morpheus said in The Matrix (what happened happened and couldn't have happened any other way)
And literally, like Cooper wished he didn't go only bcuz he did go. There was no possibility of him not going, and he could never escape it bcuz that's what's meant to be.
Andd now I wonder if this applies to our real life? If we truly could ever have done anything differently or if it was always gonna be like this?
Just like many music lyrics saying they regret something and wish they had known so they'd change it,
for example, one of Billie's lyrics sayin "If I knew it all then would I do it again"
I used to say that a lot too, but now I'm thinking, could I have ever done it differently if I knew? Bcuz how would I even know?
Bcuz if we're speaking abt time travelling and such, if it was that you could send hints to urself as Cooper did, you wouldn't understand and would do ur life as it is.
If it was about you literally going back, as a checkpoint in games, you'd forget what happened to you and still wouldn't change anything
Idk if that's more reassuring or more scary, cuz it could let us accept our life and all of the stupid decisions we made. But on the other hand it can feel almost like we don't actually have free will