'cause semy_of_pearls got me thinking

[madbaker]

Somewhat paraphrased - You're given the chance to live your life over, with your current personality and mind. You can go back to any part of your life and start over.

To narrow down the reasons a bit and clarify: you have your current personality and knowledge of your current life history, but not the world's. You can change events of your life by avoiding a car crash that crippled you, but you don't know about assassinations or the events of September 11. You don't know to invest in Microsquish stock at its IPOand you can't test out of high school at the age of six. On the plus side, Star Wars in the theater will still be an awesome experience.

Clear as mud? Okay then.

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Please give your reasons and where you'd re-start, if you would, in comments.

Personally, I see no benefit in re-living junior high school and the first half of high school - I'd still be a mouthy short nerd. Yes, I'd be comfortable in my skin (which I definitely was not then). But that wouldn't make me popular or a non-bully target.

(I changed the parameters because if I could re-live with my current knowledge, I might do so solely to make myself filthy rich as an adult by buying Microsquish and Home Despot stock, "inventing" Netscape Navigator, and so forth. And preventing some mass tragedies. That's a totally different motivation.)

Comments

[maestrateresa.livejournal.com]

There are certainly some things that I would love to change/have done differently; some of these have had huge repercussions on my life. However, bottom line, I couldn't prevent the Hodgkin's Disease nor, therefore, the radiation/chemotherapy cocktail that has put me where I currently am healthwise. That being said, I ***NEVER*** want to have to go through chemo again (did I shout that loudly enough? ;-)