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A 'life reset' button - would you press it?

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    #32
    sheesh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭sheesh


    My mother recently asked me "If you could live your life over would you change anything? led to an exasperated Everthing!


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    #33
    SeanW
    Registered Users Posts: 8,740 ✭✭✭SeanW


    Speaking only for myself, things could have been better, or a whole lot worse, had they unfolded differently. I would need to have control/preview of the "new" life before deciding.


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    #34
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    SeanW wrote: »
    I would need to have control/preview of the "new" life before deciding.

    Not available.
    Them be the rules...
    sheese wrote:
    My mother recently asked me "If you could live your life over would you change anything? led to an exasperated Everthing! .

    You'll have no chance to retify anything in your past life, because you won't be aware of it.
    Besides, your new life will be different. I says so, so that's that.


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    #35
    [Deleted User]
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    Yes, definitely. I really don't have much in my life right now that's worth not pushing the button for.
    Barely There wrote: »
    Nope.

    It'd be tempting for some things, but I've a couple of kids, and the chances of me hitting my wife's eggs with the exact right two sperm all over again has got to be infinitesimally small.

    You might get two better kids. Maybe even a better wife!


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    #36
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,321 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Not a chance.


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    #37
    SeanW
    Registered Users Posts: 8,740 ✭✭✭SeanW


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Not available.
    Them be the rules...
    Then, no. Because there's no guarantee your life wouldn't be worse.


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    #38
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Yes, made some really stupid life impacting decisions that I completely regret...

    Heck, maybe death you restart life over! :pac:


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    #39
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    There's a person on this planet whose existence is due to the entirety of choices I have made up to this point and whose continued existence is more important than my own. Theoretically the "reset" may also affect the lives of those around me which potentially means that nephews and nieces too may not exist in this alternate timeline.

    If we never met, my wife would probably be happy anyway, everyone likes her. Though I have difficulty seeing how anyone else could make me as happy as she makes me.
    But my daughter wouldn't exist. So no way in hell am I pushing that button.


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    #40
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Nope.

    I lucked out in a number of ways and for that I'm grateful.

    I might not have that in a new life.


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    #41
    magicmushroom
    Registered Users Posts: 824 ✭✭✭magicmushroom


    I think it's very sad that so many people have said yes :(

    My life isn't the best by any means but the bad things in it are completely overshadowed by the love I have for my family, my boyfriend, my lovely friends, even my cats!

    If I pressed that button I could be born into a country torn apart by war, or to a junkie mother who doesn't love or want me, or with a terrible illness or disability - so many awful scenarios!

    I think I'll keep what I have thanks


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    #42
    Sugar Free
    Registered Users Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭Sugar Free


    magicmushroom wrote: »
    I think it's very sad that so many people have said yes :(

    My life isn't the best by any means but the bad things in it are completely overshadowed by the love I have for my family, my boyfriend, my lovely friends, even my cats!

    If I pressed that button I could be born into a country torn apart by war, or to a junkie mother who doesn't love or want me, or with a terrible illness or disability - so many awful scenarios!

    I think I'll keep what I have thanks

    I think the OP said you'd be born into the same general background etc so the wartorn thing is unlikely.

    I fully agree though that I feel sorry for people if they genuinely - having fully understood the 'rules' given by the OP - would choose to reset their life.


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    #43
    Reindeer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭Reindeer


    OldGoat wrote: »
    According to Shakespeare "Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."
    That would never suit AH.

    Having said that, AH is the ultimate tragedy...


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    #44
    Snakeweasel
    Registered Users Posts: 573 ✭✭✭Snakeweasel


    It would be the easiest decision I ever made. If there was even a 1% chance that things would be different I would reset


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    #45
    well spoken man
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭well spoken man


    Id be on it like car bonnet ...
    Possibly steer clear of them women folk next time :(


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    #46
    Stinjy
    Registered Users Posts: 785 ✭✭✭Stinjy


    No way! Everything that has happened has got me to thins point, maybe not in the most direct way but thats the fun of the game. Hell it could be a lot worse!


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    #47
    Gannicus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,736 ✭✭✭Gannicus


    No I wouldn't. The last 28 years has helped mould me into the person I am and I wouldn't want to risk resetting and being a complete douche. Nor would I want to intentionally risk someone else's life being worse to make mine better.


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    #48
    biketard
    Registered Users Posts: 531 ✭✭✭biketard


    Barely There wrote: »
    Nope.

    It'd be tempting for some things, but I've a couple of kids, and the chances of me hitting my wife's eggs with the exact right two sperm all over again has got to be infinitesimally small.

    ^ This.


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    #49
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,664 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Hmm trying to think seriously about this, on balance I don't think I would

    There's several key things I would change, but the ripple effect would mean that other positive things likely wouldn't happen either - so while I may not have taken that crappy job move back in 2001, I might still be in the same company now (a lot of people I know still are) and wouldn't have taken on a far more rewarding job, lived outside Dublin for a few years and so on..

    What I would like though is a 12-hour "preview" of my life 5/10 years from now, just to see how some things work out or any crazy changes... if you'd said to me back in 2009 that I'd be living back in Dublin, in the job I'm doing and various other things I'd have told you you were crazy - but here I am!


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    #50
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    God no. Although I've had some tough times, I can't really believe how lucky I've been overall. Wouldn't push my luck tbh.


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    #51
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    No. People say I should've done a degree etc, but frankly I'd never have met my girlfriend if I'd done a degree. A great relationship is much more important than a college degree or any amount of money.


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