Why We Can't Time Travel

I realised something over the weekend, we as humans are incapable of time travel.

I don't mean the scientific inability of keeping a wormhole from collapsing on itself, lack of a flux capacitor, lack of enthusiasm in freezing ourselves for 1000 years or the fact that flying around the globe in an opposite direction just to go a few minutes back in time would make us very tired and dizzy.

No, we as humans just would not be able to handle it.

Over the weekend, we experienced daylight savings time, another way of saying time travel without freaking out the average joe. With this shift in time 1 hour into the future, we found that we had trouble coping with it, people couldn't handle the pressure of this time jump so much so that most people were left incapacitated in bed trying to recover from the effects. Others who had things to do like go to church did so well enough to get through the service before finding a place to collapse and revive. We just can't handle time travel.

Of course, time travel isn't time travel if you don't go back in time. Further evidence that we are incapable of time travel is that we have to wait another six months before going back in time, and its only a time travel of 1 hour into the past! We need six months to recover from going into the future before we go back to the present!

This happens every year, which is a good thing I say, because over time and experience we should be able to build a tolerance for time travel so that when it's time to go two hours, or dare I say, three hours into the future, our mind and bodies will be able to withstand the experience. But alas, it doesn't seem like we'll ever get there.

In conclusion, daylight savings shows us how incapable we are when it comes to time travel. I fear the day when time travel becomes not just 1 hour into the future but 1 light year into the future, how long will we be there to recover before we return? Years? Decades? I don't think I can handle that.

Oh, and don't get me started about time travel through flying...