Would You Restart Your Life?

[Angry_squirrel]

Yes yes yes yes and yes.
I would even restart it without the intelligence I have now, as long as I have some idea what will happen so I can change it.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Yeah. I've made a shambles of my life thus far.

 

[CJ1145]

I would, if only for that first day of school where I know everyone's names already and I declare myself psychic.

Oh, and trying to help avoid 9/11 might be worth a shot.

 

[SweetNess_666]

I would yep and do a lot better at school etc

 

[velcrokidneyz]

Most definitely, as long as the age and time effect doesn't occur where time appears to move faster with age. But yea i definitely would.

 

[Icaruss]

Yes, yes a thousand times yes.

 

[dystopiaINC]

my life? naw but i would like to redo high school. i was a really shy kid my first couple years of high school, and as a result the people i ended up being close friends with i barley knew until senior year. but i could have gotten to know them i had classes with them in all four years just never did. plus there were a great many people i only made friends with weeks before the end of the year fro that very reason.

also on a side note i wish i could start it over again because the girl i wanted to ask out was already dating a guy when i met her. she started in our second year with this prick and is engaged now. i only met here face to face last September. i just wish i could have had a shot at something with her before she met that guy.

 

[Dirzzit]

These events and things I have done formed me into who I am.

Why would I change that?

Those who say yes to this question only have regrets, while I have none.

 

[TheDooD]

Would you want to restart your life with the intelligence you currently have?
I probably would.

Do I get to keep my current memories of events, my current skills and opinions about the world. If so then I would in a heart beat.

 

[C117]

No.

Sure, I'd be able to avoid all the stupid decisions I've made, but I imagine it'd be like playing a game and making it to the semi-last boss without saving, only to be brutally curbstomped and thrusted 20 hours back to the beginning of the game.

I just wouldn't be arsed to go through all that again.

 

[VaderMan92]

only if I could keep the knowledge I have now (mainly the stock prices)

 

[Tiscolfo]

Uh no, I finally found someone that I can connect to and relate with, wouldn't want to lose that

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

PARADOX: if i change what made me who i am today, will it change my own personality while changing it ?

 

[kickyourass]

Well since I'd be able to start again with all the knowledge and experience I've already gained, then yeah, maybe, Though I'd probably only take that option if my life had gone COMPLETELY down the crapper.

 

[The Funslinger]

Naw, I'd probably just make all the same goofs I have this time around and end up back where I already am.
I haven't even made many drastic goofs. Apart from maybe working "goof" into my vocabulary.

Ya done goof'd, my friend. Ya done goof'd...

OT: Yeah, if only because I keep remembering frustrating fuck ups that literally zone me out for five minutes at a time thinking about them.

 

[Thundero13]

Despite being only 15, I think I probably would because of my fear of death and restarting my life would give me more time...

 

[CrashBang]

I had this exact conversation with a mate of mine last weekend, in deatail.
Short answer: absolutely! I mean, I love my life now but my childhood was a depressing one. I was a fat only child with no friends and no self esteem. Now that I'm a good-looking 21 year old, I'd love to go back and kick my younger self's teeth in and tell him to grow a pair, but I'd prefer to just start over and do it right.
I'd talk to girls at an earlier age, not get fat as a kid, learn more than one instrument in my teen years and pour more dedication into my old band.

Also it would be so cool living for that much longer and knowing what to expect each year. And it would be so nostalgic.
I'd do every single little thing differently, like dodge before the bully punched me, make the right choice when choosing which course to study at college and university, get into the bands I've only been into since I was sixteen at age ten instead.

I could go on but now I'm just getting sad because I can't actually do it.

 

[Viral_Lola]

Well said my good man. Well said. Like I said the reasons why I would love to be able to redo my life is that there are some choices that I regret and opportunities that I passed up for one reason or another. There are some people that I lost that I would like to go back and be able to tell them how much they mean to me. Words and actions that I said and did in a fit of rage that I can't apologize for or take make. Yeah, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and even though I'm barely in my twenties, the those thoughts have started to get to me.

*sigh* Much as I'd like to believe that... I find myself in a sad place when I hear people say that, thinking 'short for what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, or makes you easier to kill in the future'.

Being naturally emotionally frail, I find it difficult to get through my days, sometimes, when my mind decides to flit back to those parts of my life that fucked me/us up. I like to think that those periods were good for me, and as much as I wish they were, I can't help thinking that with just one small change, everything would've been better. However, for all the crap I've dragged myself through, I know that were I any less of a man than I already am, it would've been a whole lot worse.

That said, I suppose that as I am, I do not so much as live now as exist.

(hugs)