Would you live your life again?

[Lightkeeper]

Originally Posted by I, Brian

In The Twilight Zone: The Movie, the last story was about a group of old people in a home who are offered youth again. Almost all of them accept it – but one doesn't, on the grounds that she didn’t want to have to go through the experience of growing up again.

I also remembered that because it seemed a strange decision – at least, in my teens. Now I'm older I wonder which decision I'd actually take.

After all, on the one hand, it was be great to be able to return to our lives with the wisdom we have already acquired from it. But isn't that all part of growing up anyway?

But isn’t there also the danger of repeating past "mistakes", on the ground that the lessons learned no longer seemed so relevant in a second lifetime?

I'm sure even the younger among us have considered the advantages of rewinding life's clock - if only by a couple of years.

Anyway, what would you do if offered the chance?

I don't know, I'm not finished yet.

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by Lightkeeper

I don't know, I'm not finished yet.

Good point. How can one start a new race, when the current one isn't over?

By the way Brian, I was thinking more on that episode with the "kick the can kids". I think the one who didn't want to go back, only needed to feel/think young again, not neccessarily become young again. So in the end, he got that back. Maybe he made out better than the rest of them.

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[Geist]

Originally Posted by brucegdc

Oh choices, choices choices

1) Go back two and a half years and fight the last custody battle differently. (too soon old, too late wise).

2) Go back 6 years and redo the divorce agreement.

3) Go back 16 years and not spend 10 fighting to save a doomed marriage.

4) Go back 18 years and skip that dinner where I met my ex.

5) Go back 20 years or so and focus more on school work instead of partying in college.
etc

If you think about it if you go back and chage things you wouldn't be you. Because the things you've been through and the way you've reacted has shaped your personality so in one sense its a form of sucide because your killing yourself by changing your expirences.

Personally I wouldn't want to go through half the crap I've been through and I know I wouldn't want to change anything about me.

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by Geist

If you think about it if you go back and chage things you wouldn't be you. Because the things you've been through and the way you've reacted has shaped your personality so in one sense its a form of sucide because your killing yourself by changing your expirences.

Personally I wouldn't want to go through half the crap I've been through and I know I wouldn't want to change anything about me.

Yes. That is the ultimate truth...

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