instead of sleeping

[Tom]

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sometimes i stay awake in bed and just think about what i would do if got to re do the last ten years with all the knowledge i have now


and then i say well

might as well re do the last ten years with total control of time and space


but then i just think

i would re-do everything over and over and over again until i got it perfect like save states. and things would take forever to get right. on the outside iwould look perfect but on the inside i would live a thousand lives

and then i fall asleep

and wake up and its tomorrow and i have to go to class and i have to go to work and i have friends who want to play and i want to play games

and then its bed time and i wonder why i think about the past so much

do i regret things? i tell myself no

 

[Teran]

I don't regret things but having all the knowledge of today and being shot back like 10 years would be incredibly fun.

It would be like 10 years' worth of nostalgia, and you could probably sleep through almost every class because you'd ace the tests without trying.

I could even pick up old games I never got round to buying, and now can't find. :D

But yeah no regrets.

 

[saviorslegacy]

I think the same thing. If I could go back 10 years ago I would make sure to be considered a child genius, get attention and eventually power. Then if I could go back by ten years again I would make sure to tweak things just right so that I could eventually rule the world from behind the scenes. I would then use that power to usher in an era of peace and prosperity.

 

[SharkAttack]

Wow! This thread is basically what I think about all the time literally. If I could go back to 2000 with everything I know now I would have tried to warn the government about eventual catastrophies like 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Stock Market Bust of 2008,, and the earthquakes of Haiti and Japan. I doubt anyone would listen to me and consider me crazy.

For my personal life though I would have ran more so I could have been a beast at cross country. Also would have taken math and science more seriously and then get awsome jobs in those areas.

Overall I don't really regret much of anything I did, but if I could go back I would have made myself more physically fit and smarter.

 

[darkgirku]

I wouldn't want to change a thing.

 

[EpixAura]

Wow! This thread is basically what I think about all the time literally. If I could go back to 2000 with everything I know now I would have tried to warn the government about eventual catastrophies like 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Stock Market Bust of 2008,, and the earthquakes of Haiti and Japan. I doubt anyone would listen to me and consider me crazy.

For my personal life though I would have ran more so I could have been a beast at cross country. Also would have taken math and science more seriously and then get awsome jobs in those areas.

Overall I don't really regret much of anything I did, but if I could go back I would have made myself more physically fit and smarter.

Yay for cross-country. I feel your pain on that one.

I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't agree with you, although I don't think that big-picture. It barely occurs to me to prevent assassinations and that kind of thing. I just think about what I regret doing or what I would do differently, piece by piece, and fix it.

Eventually, I realized how entirely futile it all was. Now, whenever I start thinking about redoing things, I realize that if I have the energy for this train of thought, I have the energy to get up and watch TV.

 

[SharkAttack]

The one bad thing about all this is going back to make some positive changes could turnaround and make negative changes.

For instance if you go back to 2000 and change things that will alter mind thoughts which in turn will alter people's decisions which in turn will change events. As of 2011 right now I can move around freely such as running, but what if I went back into the past and changed things. Would these changes lead me into another situation where I'm driving down the road one day and get struck by another driver. What if I became paralyzed from the waiste down or even die. Even worse what if this happen to somebody I know. Then I'd feel real guilty about going back and making changes.