A difficult question...

[EXPLICITasian]

A friend awhile back told me of a very serious question he was once asked (at this time he was battling with cancer, luckily he got better). His question was "If you could go back into time and make it so the worst thing that happened in you life never happened... would you do it?"

Now of course the obvious answer to this question is yes, but one might forget to see that the event shaped you as a person, it caused you to be who you are, and without it you may not be the person you are now. All the things you learned from it, all the things you took from it, gone. You're completely different.

...My friend answered no, how do you feel?

 

[darkless]

Then your friend is a wise person i could i could go back in time for any reason what so ever i wouldn't change a single thing because those events don't only change who you are but also effect those around you you wouldn't just be changing events for yourself you would being changing the events of those closest to you as well.

 

[Aardvark]

If I could go back in time, I'd be doing better things than fixing my life up. I'd be abusing that time-travel power, going through history, using my future knowledge and whatever gadgets I could bring back with me to totally prank history.

100 years war? Totally started by the old can of snakes gag.

 

[Eddbot]

Actually, lately i've been pondering an idea similar to this.

I'd go with yes...i've made some stupid decisions over the years, i figure if i can stop myself from making the first mistake, maybe it will change my life for the better.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

There is something that happened a while ago that shaped my life as it was today, but in the wrong direction. No good will ever come out of what happened and honestly I don't feel comfortable talking about it online, but in no way did this come out for the good of my life, so I will say yes.

And honestly I really really wish this never happened.

 

[theklng]

i would not go back in time except to observe. i live without regrets, and thus i waste nothing. to live is to learn.

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

If I could go back in time, I'd be doing better things than fixing my life up. I'd be abusing that time-travel power, going through history, using my future knowledge and whatever gadgets I could bring back with me to totally prank history.

100 years war? Totally started by the old can of snakes gag.

Time traveler: Hey, want some peanuts?
*Opens trick can*
Warrior King: AAAH!! You vondruke!! I will kill your people for this!

Yeah, I can see that.

 

[Galletea]

If I get to choose which specific event then yes. Some of the bad shaped me as a person but others, like being robbed, didn't do anything good at all. So yeah, I'd quite like my stuff back.

 

[NeoAC]

I say yes, because if that dang school didn't close down, I would be in the city right now, halfway towards getting my journalism degree, surround by a group of friends who I could party with on a regular basis, instead of up here, in the middle of nowhere, trapped in a soul crushing call center job, staring down student loan payments, a car that needs something new fixed every other weekend, and the never-ending boredom that comes from living on the outskirts of a town that thinks its major tourist attraction should be watching water go up and down!

 

[Cahlee]

The worst thing that happened to me, at the time, is now the best thing that ever happened to me. So obviously, no.

 

[EXPLICITasian]

There is something that happened a while ago that shaped my life as it was today, but in the wrong direction. No good will ever come out of what happened and honestly I don't feel comfortable talking about it online, but in no way did this come out for the good of my life, so I will say yes.

And honestly I really really wish this never happened.

Well i mean if it happened to today you couldn't obviously learned anything about it yet... so if it were like a "just now" event I'd do it then, like for things ranging from dropping a pass in football or accidently burning my eyebrows off while blowing out the candles on a cake. But I guess your problem is harder than that... sorry for whatever happened... and making you think about it harder for posting this thread...

 

[Datalord]

Go watch the star trek movie, the final frontier, seriously, misery makes us who we are, misery mature us, besides, LIVING is the worst thing that has ever happened to me, so i can't really stop that without drastic consequences

 

[742]

well, complete undo, or just the opprotunity to modify things?

well for me the most unfortunate event in my life was my birth, it kinda started a whole avalanch of shit, so changing it would be greatly to my benefit... going back and stopping it might just destroy that whole space time thing... you know what they say, curiousity un-made reality. there was no cat.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Well i mean if it happened to today you couldn't obviously learned anything about it yet... so if it were like a "just now" event I'd do it then, like for things ranging from dropping a pass in football or accidently burning my eyebrows off while blowing out the candles on a cake. But I guess your problem is harder than that... sorry for whatever happened... and making you think about it harder for posting this thread...

Well, it wasn't a matter of finding something out the hard way, I would have learned it later anyway.

I would start over my life right now if I could, but I can't, and I'll have to live with my mistakes. But that's my own fault.

 

[Varchld]

If I get to choose which specific event then yes. Some of the bad shaped me as a person but others, like being robbed, didn't do anything good at all. So yeah, I'd quite like my stuff back.

Sorry, I already sold it for cash to upgrade my computer, you can come around and use it anytime though if you like.

For me, it'd be a big yes, I would give up who I am to become a better but version of myself. The event changing wouldn't cause me to be that different, but It'd have lead me down a better path and what I learned from it I would be happy without.

 

[Jursa]

Haven't done anything along the lines of incredibly messed up so no... not yet at least.

 

[Space Spoons]

Probably not. Changing the worst event in my life would probably change me as a person, to the point that I would no longer recognize myself. It isn't worth it.

 

[rossatdi]

So far I've gotten through life relatively pain free. I might have paid it forward though, as a kid I spent most of my first two years of life in hospital battling serious urinary tract infections (go 6 six weeks premature!).

Since then there's been a few mistakes I've made but nothing, touch wood it'll stay this way, that bad.

 

[AuntyEthel]

Fuck no. I wouldn't be the person I am today without the hardships/trials I've endured. Difficult times and overcoming them shape better people, who are wiser to the world. They also help prepare for future times, as one can learn how to best deal with bad situations.

 

[latenightapplepie]

I can't believe some of you are actually considering tampering with the space-time continuum!
/badjoke

Um, maybe, the mistakes I've made aren't enormous and I don't have a really good idea of how I would right them. Maybe just for shits and giggles I would start over again to see how I might turn out with a few things changed slightly, you know, check the whole human determination, theory of agency thingo.