If you could start over your life, would you do it? Or are you good the way you are now?
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While my life could be better, I value everything’s that happened - the good and the bad - so I wouldn’t do it. Would you?
I wouldn't want to go through a complete metamorphosis. Most definitely not. It may be tempting to change a few minor things that have gone wrong, but I suppose it's too risky to tinker with them. Painting that front door blue rather than green back in 2009 could unleash World War III in 2027. I don't want that on my conscience.
Start over! And go through High School again?!
Absolutely not! Once was plenty!
All I am trying to do is make sure that when I get old, I will be financially secure enough to sit on my front porch in a rocking chair and angrily shake my fist at people who walk by. 😤
Ah yes, shaking your fist angrily at people while sitting on your front porch. If you can achieve that ultimate goal in your current life, don't ever change a thing. It's not worth it.
So many mistake i made that i wish i have restart button
So funny, I just watched the latest Rick and Morty episode (season 9 ep 2) and it kinda touches upon this a bit. It’s one of my favorite episodes.
It’s not exactly this question but similar enough but basically it was something along the lines of we all fall back into being who we are.a
Too bad we won't be able to find out. Will we fall back into being who we are or is it truly possible to reinvent yourself?
Today I found out that the different views in multiverse theories don't quite agree. Many views allow these so-called "split duplicates" to gradually diverge, and some even allow radical differences given enough time or differing histories. Fascinating!
That really is fascinating!
I'd like to think that a different upbringing/childhood experience would definitely change who I am, but the core of who I am as a person would be the same - but maybe applied to different interests, etc.
Well do I get to keep my knowledge and stuff? 😇 Just starting again from a blank slate would likely yield similar results to where I am now.
I suppose the butterfly effect will guarantee that your life will be wildly different no matter what.
I mean if I just started over without changing anything and had the same parents, school, etc etc I think I would mostly end up the same as now 🤷
Really, I'm serious about the butterfly effect.
Consider situation A:
Your mother lifts you from your crib. A tiny spider scurries away unnoticed. She rocks you, feeds you, and tucks you back in. A perfectly uneventful day.
Now consider situation B:
Your mother lifts you up, spots a spider, panics, and drops you. Your father shouts, shoves her in a blind reflex, and she falls hard against the corner of a table. Surgery fails to save her eye. The resentment festers, and within six months the marriage is over. A year later, she remarries a fabulously wealthyman who adopts you as his own. He puts his entire fortune and heart into making your wildest dreams come true. Becoming a Hollywood star, a world-class scientist, or a famous writer, you name it. And he makes it happen.
That one little spider that failed to scurry away unnoticed didn't
just scare your mom, it unlocked a blockbuster future for you!
It's an interesting theory but I think it applies more about going back in the past, when you deliberately change some event that happened. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't feel like I've had a single event that has had such a large impact on me. I've been pretty much on a set path most of my life. So to get a different outcome I feel like I would have to change the fundamentals.