What if you could remake your entire life? - As a mere hypothetical

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umseriously said:
Let's say that you were suddenly transported from your sleep back to where you were as a baby, in your infantile state of being, but with the mind and intelligence you have now. You think the same way you do right now, just in a much younger body. No one knows besides you.

What would you do?
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Shit my diapers and suck on titties
Date way more and be less serious about it. Most people aren't marriage material.
Beat up way more people that deserved a good whooping
Maybe live in germany/swiss etc if that was in the good times. Now? Hell no.
Quit school past primary and just go to work as education has been completely devalued today.
 
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It'd be really uncomfortable and lonely, because it would be really hard to relate to people from that perspective. It probably wouldn't be well received when it's shared and it's isolating when it's not shared.

Puberty and attraction would be a real mess, not to the world, but my/yourself from your own perspective.

But the biggest mistake I made was trusting my family too much growing up, so that's what I'd do differently. I also would start much sooner at going towards what I'm afraid of instead of avoiding it.
 
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I would have gone after my passions and went to college rather than fucked around and tried to make people like me.

I wouldn't have given people the benefit of the doubt nearly as much. I'm very comfortable now with the fact that an overwhelming amount of people you meet are very much comfortable with their flaws and are never going to change. This would have extended to family. At the same time, I would have actually had a lot more faith in people. Most the people who were my friends weren't and most the people I thought had something against me were actually pretty chill.

I would've saved money a lot more when I could, even if it wouldn't seem like a lot.

Probably would never have moved back home. Even if things got very rough for a while, I think it would've been worth it in the end.

I'd actually make a move on the girls who were flirting with me instead of thinking life was incel twitter and I'd be cancelled or some stupid shit.

I would have bought less items and invested in a decent car and traveled for a while.

But most importantly, I would have just done literally anything faster. Life goes by too fast. Your head is sometimes your enemy. Just doing any small thing even if it seemed inconsequential would have been worth infinitely more than worrying about everything at bed for hours on end.

So in other words, everything :biggrin:.
 
I'd tell my mum to get me tested for autism that she refused to do when I was a child for I'd feel different from others. I still felt different from others, and exceptionally mentally retarded on top of that.
 
I try not to answer that question, because it'll never happen, this quote explains it better than I could.

"There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask 'Why me?' and 'What if?' when you look back, see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or a forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions."
 
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When I was younger there were parts I wish I could do over. These days... not so much. I kinda like how my life turned out.

If I could re-live my school days I'd love to go back to them but knowing all the things I know now, so I know how to deal with certain situations that came up. But otherwise.... I dunno, I think I would want my life to play out not that much different, at least up until around 2008 or so which is when I start to feel things derailed.
 
Lemmingwiser said:
It'd be really uncomfortable and lonely
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This is a good point. Both the general knowledge and the specific things. Imagine knowing that there’s an IRA bombing coming up and you can’t quite remember the day, or 9/11 or 7/7 or something. Or that someone you know does of cancer. You’d have a lot on your shoulders. Even just knowing how things pan out in general would be odd. Would we perhaps try to change things? Would we find that some things can’t be changed? Would there be consequences to changing things?
Maybe things would be worse in a re run, and that’s an extremely depressing thought - that the life you’re living now is the best of all possible. All the other alternatives are worse? Man… I thought that in another universe I’d be better.
 
Otterly said:
This is a good point. Both the general knowledge and the specific things. Imagine knowing that there’s an IRA bombing coming up and you can’t quite remember the day, or 9/11 or 7/7 or something. Or that someone you know does of cancer. You’d have a lot on your shoulders. Even just knowing how things pan out in general would be odd. Would we perhaps try to change things? Would we find that some things can’t be changed? Would there be consequences to changing things?
Maybe things would be worse in a re run, and that’s an extremely depressing thought - that the life you’re living now is the best of all possible. All the other alternatives are worse? Man… I thought that in another universe I’d be better.
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You're taking this into a lot more philantropic direction than I was thinking. I meant more about understanding human nature and society. It wouldn't be hard to make friends at any age, you have a signifcant advantage, but it would be hard for them to understand you.

You don't get the same bonding as you learn things together.

One of the things I miss most from childhood is the sense of wonder and not understanding things or beginning to understand things. I'm not sure if I'd enjoy being an 8 year old cynic.
 
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Dont bother with some worthless people I invested time in because Im not calling them worthless because its cute

Its cuz they were truly worthless of my time and friendship.


Oh yeah, get into bitcoin and invest a small fortune in it, get called crazy for doing so, become billionaire and them get called a genius
 
Lemmingwiser said:
You're taking this into a lot more philantropic direction than I was thinking. I meant more about understanding human nature and society. It wouldn't be hard to make friends at any age, you have a signifcant advantage, but it would be hard for them to understand you.

You don't get the same bonding as you learn things together.

One of the things I miss most from childhood is the sense of wonder and not understanding things or beginning to understand things. I'm not sure if I'd enjoy being an 8 year old cynic.
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I don’t really remember that being a thing, and I’m not bonded to anyone from childhood. I didnt particularly enjoy my childhood (if I’m honest I haven’t enjoyed much of life, a lot of it has been somewhat painful.)
At least if I was adult level awareness I’d be able to navigate things with less damage.
It’d probably be pretty dull going through it all again. So many exams to sit through, if i can fast forward through that stuff I’d be fine.
I would do almost everything differently. I messed up a lot of stuff, or just didn’t get what was going on, or have the wisdom or character to act how I should have and I can see why, i never stood a chance to understand the junctures i was at, but being able to go back and do it again with understanding, adult resilience and knowledge would result in a very different outcome. Maybe. Or maybe I’d get hit by a bus or die of something.

Perhaps a more interesting question is to think about what your future self might do differently if they came back to being you now. At least you can act on that. What might they tell you at your current age?
 
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Otterly said:
Perhaps a more interesting question is to think about what your future self might do differently if they came back to being you now. At least you can act on that. What might they tell you at your current age?
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Pretty sure they'd tell me that it doesn't matter. One can't live life having regrets, it's self defeating. The trick is to learn from your mistakes and avoid repeating them.
 
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I'd defend myself against my high school bullies instead of going into the social equivalent of Hedgehog Defensive Mode whenever they attacked me. I hated how passive I was back then. Someone would attack me, and I'd have a deer-in-the-headlights look, unable to believe that people would beat me or insult me, when I had never done anything to hurt them. Fuck, kids are bastards. On second thought, maybe it's better that I don't go back in time, because I would have had a much darker timeline than the one I have now, where I just behaved myself, bided my time, and waited for my childhood bullies to fry their brains with drugs/gradually unfuck themselves once adulthood hit them like a ton of bricks.
 
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