Currently I am reading this novel called Life II. It's a good book so far, about a man who gets to live his life over again. The person who gives him this chance not only does this, but also gives Max (the main character) the choice of where (or more accurately, when) to go back and relive his life. 42-year old Max chooses to go back to when he was 16, and try to fix some of the mistakes he made in the 26 years between 16 and 42. He has his memories, so he uses this to attempt to fix some things, like telling his uncle about the cancer he has, so in Life II, his uncle gets diagnosed early enough and gets it treated whereas in Life I, by the time the cancer was discovered, it was too late. Max also uses the opportunity to change his career path, in Life !, he was an accountant, and he ended up not being happy so in Life II he takes the high school classes needed for the new career he wants, goes to a different college, and so on.
The reason why I brought this up is because I thought it would be fun to have a discussion about what would happen if Chris was in the same situation. We know how much he pines for his high school days and so on, so what if he was given the chance to relive his life from any point in the past that he chose. I know many of us would like to fix mistakes in our past, and if we had the chance at a Life II, we would use this opportunity constructively (My life right now is fine, but I would have chosen a different college major, and avoided a man who ended up being a really asshole boyfriend)
At what point do you think Chris would restart his life? Might he go back to being 16, or perhaps younger, and would he use Life II constructively? Would he, for example, ask Tiffany on a date? Would he try to convince his parents to stay there instead of moving back to Ruckersville after he graduated high school? Would he want to go back to college (remember, he would have all his memories, so he would be basically his 31-year old self in a younger body) or, given his bitter memories of college, he would decide to not go at all and spend his early 20's at home doing what he is currently doing (sans Barb's holey ass)
Would Chris try to save his father by standing up to his mother about the hoard? Barb wasn't always a hoarder, pictures of his childhood show a relatively clean household so might he, with his memories, be able to stave off his mother's hoarding urges and give his father a better, calmer end?
And of course, one pretty big thing... would he have learned enough from the trolls to avoid making mistakes such as sticking the Sonichu medallion up his ass or taking a picture of himself in his mom's underoos? And the Love Quest? Would he still use the Attraction Sign, or might he try something new?
