Discussion If you got to choose to start your life from the beginning or to stop completely existing, what would you choose?

[catsarecool]

And why?

I would just completely stop existing as I don't think I had a very good starting point and things would most likely be shit anyways even if I got a second chance.

 

[rt1989526]

I'd be fine with having never lived.

 

[alexit]

stop existing. my parents were horrible parents and hated each other. should have never married.

 

[foxdie]

I would choose stop existing. I crave the non existence

 

[Soul]

Five of a kind

 

[VIBRITANNIA]

i would want to stop existing. it's not like i'd be missing out on much anyways. with the way the world is headed, i'm surprised if we'll last another 30 years.

 

[Commandocoki]

Just looking at the option to start over from the beginning made my heart race. Couldn't do it. I'm with everyone else on this one.

 

[alexit]

It'd be a different scene in Back to the Future. We'd start seeing ourselves fading from the picture and we'd all start high fiving each other.

 

[Painless_end]

Stop Existing.

The other option is not even a consideration.

Because I haven't made any voluntary "mistakes" that I want to undo.

My problems are because of what my brain is at a deep, fundamental, unalterable level right from the moment I started walking and talking.

There's not a single second of existence that I would change or choose differently by starting again.

 

[lostangel]

Just stop existing. There is no point in living even if I did everything ''right''. I think it was always meant to be.

 

[BPD Barbie]

It depends if I knew the mistakes I'd made previously and I knew what to expect and what to not do wrong. Otherwise I wouldn't wanna go through this and make the same mistakes again.

 

[Captive of Mind]

A part of me wants to say I could make things better if I could start over with the knowledge I have now, but it wouldn't be worth the risk. I'd rather never have existed at all.

 

[ocd is bad]

Stop existing for sure. The benefits of a happy life don't outweigh the risks of a sad one.

 

[Wayfaerer]

Assuming free will (unlikely)? I would choose to start life at the beginning. Otherwise, I want to be dead and stay dead.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

And why?

I would just completely stop existing as I don't think I had a very good starting point and things would most likely be shit anyways even if I got a second chance.

I would stop existing. I wish i'd never been born.

 

[esse_est_percipi]

Starting at the beginning would have to come with a few provisos.

e.g. some form of free will so you can make different choices,
and being able to actually remember the mistakes you made the first time around so that you wouldn't make them again.

 

[Good4Nothing]

If I could go back with all my current knowledge, so I could make different choices, I would.

If it's just reliving the same shit, no thanks.

 

[TheQ22]

If I could go back with all my current knowledge, so I could make different choices, I would.

If it's just reliving the same shit, no thanks.

Same if I could relive it and avoid the mistakes I would, if I had to do it all the same I'd rather not bother.

 

[DyingAlf]

Definitely stop existing! I wish I'd never been born & am very sure I don't want to do it all over again.

 

[death137]

Stop completely existing because life is horrible and sad no matter what.

 

[ladolcemorte]

Definitely stop existing. Even if I could avoid the (many) mistakes I have made, I wouldn't go back because I'm certain I would just make different ones. To quote a line from a movie I saw once, "if it wasn't this, it would be something else"...

 

[muffin222]

I would stop existing. Even if I lived my life over, I still would have been powerless to stop my parents from abusing and neglecting me as a young child. That was the turning point in my life, and it was largely beyond my control, so I imagine my life would have unfolded in a fairly similar fashion even if I started it all over again

 

[Deformationalplagio]

Just stop it. I was born deformed so it wouldnt matter if i start the whole process again. Its not in my control it was in my mothers control when i was young but shes a narcissistic litlle bitch

 

[bigdog]

I mean if I could change some events in my life than I would live it again if not than stop existing

 

[Midnight-rain]

The ladder, no doubt about it. I wouldn't have the drive in me to do this shit all over again for a second time.

 

[Worthless_nobody]

If I could write my own life and it's not left up to luck or fate I would want to start over but having never existed is easier and I would be ok with that.

 

[Meditation guide]

I am convinced something was actively making sure there would always be some sort of major problem that wrecked my life, just as there was a glimmer of hope.

 

[artroom1931]

I would love to start everything over again. I truly love this world, there are so many beautiful things in it...if I could do everything over and do it right, that's all I could ask for.

 

[Dookieshoes]

Do I have any knowledge of the first attempt, or is it just a full reset?

Either way, I would absolutely go around again.

 

[softfuzzyman]

Starting over with no knowledge of this previous run would be meaningless. No different from how it is now.

If I could be aware of what went wrong in this run and could be more prepared for everything I went through and make better choices, I'd be fine with starting over. It'd still be rough but maybe I could get a bit of a head start to turn it around.

But given the choice between that and just not existing? No, hands down, nonexistence wins every time. I shouldn't have been brought into existence in the first place.