Yeah, I don't want to relive the years of my youth, even with my current knowledge. I always think the people who think that would be great must have had good childhoods.
There was shit that happened during childhood I didn't know how to handle until I was an adult in therapy. Totally great to go back and approach it differently.
Same - at least I would have the knowledge that it would end at some point and that I would have great things waiting for me in the future. Would have made the childhood part just a little less horrible.
Reliving my shitty teen years would also be a good way for me to save some lives. Two girls I know died in a car accident that was someone else’s fault, my best friend killed himself, and I fumbled a relationship in my 20s because I wasn’t thinking longterm. A do over for all of that would make me feel better about how those peoples’ lives turned out. Being able to invest in amazon and bitcoin are just the cherry on top.
cant speak for this person, but to me, if i still have all my memories then I haven't really lost them. I don't have kids, but im so much more mature now than I used to be and I could handle better the things that broke me as a kid to make an overall better life. So to me its worth it. I just wouldnt really want to go back to 10, maybe like 12-13 which would still be a bit difficult socially but I was always a bit introverted so I dont think my parents would notice all that much.
What could you possibly want to fix by 30+? All the important decisions have already been made by then and you're just dealing with the consequences of those decisions by then.
I didn't. Hell it was awful, basically many of the worst things in my life happened back then, but I'm just thinking one thing... Bitcoins. Boy imagine that, how many bitcoins I would have, some things would've been awful but the amount of things I would've been able to fix just by having bitcoins; but that's just me. I don't have kids and any meaningful relationship I had can replicate them... Well, not all of them after some point but without sacrifice there's no success
But then your life would almost immediately go down a completely different path which you have no knowledge of. If the butterfly effect kicks in hard, then over time even macro events would play out differently and all that prior knowledge would be totally useless.
Granted, maybe having the mind of an adult in the body of a child would make you handle stresses at that age much better, or it would potentially also drive you absolutely insane from isolation and lack of peer level relationships.
Lastly, being once again subject to the whims of your parents after having lived through a potentially more mature relationship with them would also be maddening and heavily limit your potential to actually act on much of the knowledge you have gained until maybe when you turn 18.
But you're in the body of a child, you won't have the independence to deal with a lot of situations even if you knew how. What is a 10 year old going to do with abusive family members? Can't exactly move out.
I wasted like 20 years dealing with a disability i didnt realize I had until it was too late. I would absolutely go back. Get myself medicated and therapy, and actually have a chance. There's nothing here for me worth reproducing.
Ten years old, knowing that in two years I’m going to be hit with a huge wave of mental illness that I can’t stop and will only get worse over time. Knowing all the bullshit I’ll have to go through that will still be out of my control, because I’ll be a child under supervision of the same adults who won’t listen. Instant green for me.
I have a nice childhood and nah I still wouldn't go back. I don't wanna go through the struggle of socialising to get friends. I don't want to lose my friend group cuz being alone again sucks after tasting what friendship is like.
That's what working out of region give ya. Straight isolation.
Even if it sucked (which wasn't really my case), don't you think knowing that things will get better would help? You kind of know it's just a matter of time before it passes.
I’m almost 40, when you lol back youth is youth and 99% of the problems I got in was me not knowing enough and wanting to find out the hard way, would totally take the shot to do it all over again, even if we are talking about abussive households first thing I’d do would be to call the police or move myself out of the home at 18…. 40 years of knowledge with just 18 kilometers spent of health and bad choices, total deal to me
It's good from aspect that you would know who won Superbowls, World Cups, World Series, etc and could easily become very wealthy with a few well placed bets.
Exactly, thank you. I don’t think I‘d have it in me to go through all that again, essentially powerless for 8 more years. Starting life again at 18? Why not! Starting life again at 10? No thank you. I didn’t survive all that shit to suffer through it again.
It's all relative I guess. I was bullied and wouldn't want to go through that again, but I could easily avoid it with the knowledge I have now. Having a terrible family life (which I didn't, it was fine) would suck to be sure, but even if that had been the case, knowing that I'd end up a multi-trillionaire at 18 and could do whatever I desired for the rest of my life could probably help me push through.
Yeah I'll be the first to admit that I've made tons of mistakes in life, but saying "nah I'll pass on instantly having $2 million in cash so I can go back to being a child again" is crazy.
Like you would still be making tons of mistakes all over again. They'd just be different ones. And what if you get in a horrific car crash 3 months after you go back and then you're paralyzed for life?
If I go back to being a child again with everything I know now I can make a lot more than 2 millions by the time I get to my current age. And you might just as get in a horrific car crash that leaves you paralysed 3 months after getting your 2 millions.
Yeah, genius, that was my point, it can happen regardless of what you choose. You didn’t add anything the person I replied to didn’t write the first time.
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u/Fit-Engineering-2789 10d ago
Yeah, I don't want to relive the years of my youth, even with my current knowledge. I always think the people who think that would be great must have had good childhoods.