Venting I wish I could just press a restart button

[foreverclear]

I think about it all the time. I imagine myself restarting at life, being my seven year old self again but this time knowing what to do. I know it's not possible, and that's what hurts even more. I can't go back, I can't undo the things I've already done or said. I just want a reset. I feel guilt and shame every day. I wish I had someone in my life to guide me, I have no one who really gets me it feels like. I wish I was better as a kid too, even though I hate to blame her. I had no talent, no goals, I wasn't encouraged or held or pushed to be great. I wish I was. I wish I could reset.

 

[itsgone2]

I imagine myself restarting at life, being my seven year old self again but this time knowing what to do.

Same. Wanting a reset. Knowing what to do now is so painful. Not blaming my parents but they never taught me anything. Life isn't that complicated, I should have done better anyway, but maybe you had a similar experience.

 

[Hollowman]

Me too, life could've been great.

 

[TheEmptyVoid]

I wish my life was great, it was back then, but now it's been 7 years of me being extremely depressed (depression means something like feeling empty, lack of motivation on anything, and does not really mean sadness). I literally have no idea what caused it, I try to remember, but I can't remember.

 

[Terrible_Life]

Many of us wish that … I'd wish a time machine would exist

 

[lost in the lilies]

I know what you mean. I think if I really could be granted one wish it would be to be able to wake up somewhere totally new where not a single person knows me. Free to just start fresh, live & carry myself the way I please without all of this weighing me down.