Discussion If you could restart your life from your birth and try to fix it, would you?

[tbroken]

Probably yes, i didn't cause my cptsd, so i could do better, but you never know...
Also my city is so small and so wrong and things happen so fast and without a reason, that i would probably choose to respawn somewhere else, a bigger city maybe.

 

[thealteredmind]

well, I would do several things different. I guess. Or maybe I would just fail... again.

 

[Forveleth]

I have thought about this A LOT. There are a few life choices I have made that put me where I am in my misery. I don't know if changing any of them would give me a better life but damn I'd like to have the opportunity.

My luck it would be like one of those sappy movies where things are even more screwed up and you're supposed to be happy for the life you have or whatever.

 

[Jorms_McGander]

It would be hilarious because I'd have to be fully articulate and with a PhD as a baby, ahead of my time even as that instantly-tenured infant, so yeah I'd totally do it again if I were given a fighting chance. And side effect would be advancing the field of medical health by a couple decades pretty much instantly so yup. Would.

 

[anonymousbookreader]

unless i can choose my parents, not a chance.

 

[bugs_for_brains]

Nah, I never had a chance to begin with. I would love to live life under different circumstances tho

 

[mehdone]

I've been thinking about this, if I could somehow rewind the clock with all my memories and experiences now and kinda have a second go at life I would do in a heartbeat I'd be able to get all the things I missed, could change who I was friends with, try a sport when i was young etc. I really hope that's what death is.

Fuck no.
I'm not living through the hell of life again, and if reincarnation is a thing, I'm gonna be *pissed*.

 

[AliceTheGoon]

Abso-fucking-lutely. I'd be a goddam zen master if I could redo life with what I know now.

 

[MarkSmith73]

No. Because if I went all the way back to birth I most likely wouldn't remember all the hard learned lessons and things would just repeat in an endless loop. Even going back 20 years my whole family would be erased unless I could somehow duplicate things I'd done up until that point. The sweet spot for me would be 2016. I could pretty much fix everything by going back 8 years or I could just go back 2 days or so and win an $80 million Powerball jackpot. That is if I could remember the numbers.

 

[ctbcat]

no.

a lot of the bad things that happened to me are of my own doing but circumstance had it's own part. even if i somehow became more, i would still be intrinsically damaged. what good is damage?

i would use a time machine, if it hypothetically existed. but for decades i didn't live in rather than to fix my own life.

i hate the person i turned out to be, but the thing is... that's me. i don't want to think about some other me with some other talents, some more charisma and charm and whatever else, because while that might look and sound like me, that isn't me, not in my mind.


i could've been hypothetically perfect, but then again, i hate perfect people. so this pathetic, avoidant, cowardiced me is what i choose, or would choose rather.

 

[Kurai]

no i have huge regrets but there's no way I'd want to relive a life