Going Back In Time

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Good morning, humans. How are we all today? I've been watching a show called Warehouse 13. For those of you who haven't seen it, it's an American sci-fi where secret agents collect artefacts with supernatural powers. Anyway, we were watching episodes where there's a story arch regarding changing/going back in time. In the story, a catastrophe had been averted by resetting time to 24 hours previous. There was, however, a downside. This particular downside was the creation of a new evil. This evil could be eradicated by undoing the reset, but that would have meant that all the eradicated bad stuff would become real again. So, my other half and I got talking about going back in time. He's often said he wishes he'd met me sooner, but then things would probably have panned out differently anyway. For example, one or both of us would have had a partner or, going back more than 12 years or more, we may not have all of the children. We may, of course, have had children together but they would be different children. At one point during the programme, something happened which led me to, jokingly, ask D (that's my other half) if he'd ever turned back time! His response was that he'd often thought about going back if he had the chance. There were things he thinks he did wrong/could have done better. But, a particular point in time when he said he would want to change things, he wouldn't because, even though he might be able to put something right, it would have meant his niece and nephew might not have been born. At least, not that particular niece or that particular nephew. I'd like to go back in time. Not necessarily to change anything, but I'd be interested to check a few things, to revisit memories, and I'd be interested to visit other people's timelines, maybe to find out what really happened in a situation or just to get a better insight into what kind of a person someone is or how/if they've changed in any way. I'm sure there are things in most of our pasts which we'd do differently if we had a second chance, but I don't think I would because all of the events led me to where I am now, and some of those events have made me appreciate everything I have more than I might had I not experienced them. My question is, then, would you go back in time? Where would you go? What would you do? Would you change a major event or choose a different colour for your shoe laces? If you wouldn't want to change anything, why not?