If you could, would you hit the reset button on your life, start all over again?

[jammix]

If it were possible that you could just snap your fingers or take a pill and your life would magically start all over again, from birth, would you do it? -- With the promise that from time to time you'd have flashes of memory from your old life, kinda like deja vu, that might guide you on a different path, for better or worse.



For instance...

That day at the park when you were 10 years old and you chickened-out on stealing a kiss from your little crush who you were sharing an ice-cone with... you'd have a flashback of sorts where you'd "remember" that you chickened-out, and how you felt about it, just for an instant.

 

[KeithTalent]

Yes, definitely. I think about this more often than I should.

KT

 

[dr150]

Hindsight's 20/20.

One does the best they can based who they are and what they can do in a scenario in that given moment.

 

[Sonikku]

Yes indeed. I often have thoughts of embracing ones inner self before reaching puberty, but alas the die has been cast.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Yes, but I'd wait till near the end of my life.

 

[nageov3t]

not sure.

I think I probably would have overall had a happier path in life if my family had stayed in Portland instead of moving back east, but even if I went back, I wouldn't have been able to influence my parents' decision to move.

 

[swanysto]

Only if I had full recollection of my life. I am very happy with who and where I am right now, but there are a few things I would do different along the way. Things that would not alter who I am, but would allow me to "live" more than I am right now.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Yes, I hope I remember to buy apple stock the instant Michael Dell said apple should liquidate their assets and pay the proceeds to share holders. I believe it was a few month's before the ipod was released.

 

[apac]

Hell no, I love my life.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

By "start life over," do you mean literally go back in time to the early 80s, or am I starting over as a baby from today?

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Hm interesting. There's a bunch of times that I wish I could redo and times where I wish I never have to experience again.

 

[baydude]

Yes..

1. flashbacks of me posting on ATOT
2. starts ATOT before Anand does
3. profit?

 

[Naer]

Here's a better question. If your parents could go back before you were conceived and do life without you, would they jump at that chance?

 

[Thebobo]

Yes, but I'd wait till near the end of my life.

But you might not know when and miss the chance....

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Sure. If nothing else having some insight into the stock market ought to be worth something.

 

[Sonikku]

Yes..

1. flashbacks of me posting on ATOT
2. starts ATOT before Anand does
3. profit?

BaydudeTech?

Sounds like a hive of trolls and villainy.

 

[Fritzo]

I would definitely start over. I can pinpoint the age of 18 as the year I screwed up my life my focusing on a dead-end job that paid slightly higher what everyone else was making instead of school.

Never quite recovered from that.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Sure. If nothing else having some insight into the stock market ought to be worth something.

I'm pretty sure the premise is not "go back in time with your memory entirely intact." If that were the case, you'd be an idiot not to do it, because at the very least, you could heavily invest in Microsoft or Apple and make easy millions. Or go searching for some Harvard kid and give him some startup cash for the Facebook. Or hunt down and kill George Lucas in the early 1990s to spare humanity from the prequels and Shiandiana Jones.

 

[BoomerD]

Maybe...especially if I could still know what I know today...I'd make a few investments that might have seemed crazy at the time...

Yes, but I'd wait till near the end of my life.

But...do you KNOW when that will be? It just MIGHT hit you by surprise...

 

[Schmide]

To relive the 80s, sure.

Edit: My only regret is that I have boneitis.

 

[mizzou]

Reset without hindsight? What would be the point

Reset WITH hindsight? Wow, that's a lot of time to know when and where to be at the right time. Just imagine how smart people would think you are as an infant.

I don't know if I would want to go through early childhood with full consciousness and awareness.

 

[Mixolydian]

Yes, absolutely.

I've made my fair share of mistakes and bad decisions, would love to go back and change it if I could.

 

[MrPickins]

Hell no.

The events that I've experienced, good and bad, have shaped who I am.

That, and I'm pretty happy with the way my life has turned out. I'd have no guarantee that it would end up any better.

 

[blackdogdeek]

No way. I'd never give up my kids.

 

[vi edit]

Reset without hindsight? What would be the point

Sort of a mulligan on life. If your life just isn't quite what you had in mind, or maybe you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time and got in a terrible car wreck that left you disabled it's a chance to redo and hope for the better.

As for me, I've got a good family, great wife, good health, and decent amount of wealth compared to a lot of the US, let alone the rest of the world. I'd have a greater chance of going backwards than forwards.