Would you live your life over again?

mangochavez

Hypothetical question:

What if you were going to die, yet you had the opportunity to live your life over again EXACTLY as you have experienced it up until present day? Would you do it? Or would you rather choose annihilation?

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shedweller

mangochavez wrote: »

Hypothetical question:

What if you were going to die, yet you had the opportunity to live your life over again EXACTLY as you have experienced it up until present day? Would you do it? Or would you rather choose annihilation?

You mean i'd have to make all the same mistakes again and watch them unfold like some awful movie i've seen before? No thanks!

kingcobra

If I had no knowledge of what was coming ahead me then, like now, yeah definitely. Who's to say we are all just living our former lives again and again, while just being moved from one parallel universe to another?

mangochavez

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I think this is a really interesting question, because people live in such a way where they spend their whole lives waiting for fulfilment in the future. We know full well it never comes, yet it's the hope that keeps us striving, like an addiction to irrationality. When queried about whether they'd live their lives over again i.e. live a pre-determined existence, they feel prompted to choose no, even though while they'd be experiencing it they wouldn't know the end result just as they don't throughout their lives. What a miserable circumstance. No wonder people throughout history have invented false gods, even though it means worshipping the supposed entity who got them into the mess. Perhaps life is meant to be a dark comedy.

mangochavez

shedweller wrote: »

You mean i'd have to make all the same mistakes again and watch them unfold like some awful movie i've seen before? No thanks!

You'd have no cognition of what's going to happen in the future, just as you don't now.

bacon n eggs

nope

Son Of A Vidic

Once around is enough for me.

Shenshen

Good heavens, no!
Way too much hassle.

mathie

kingcobra wrote: »

Who's to say we are all just living our former lives again and again, while just being moved from one parallel universe to another?

People who aren't sci-fi nerds.

shedweller

mangochavez wrote: »

You'd have no cognition of what's going to happen in the future, just as you don't now.

But i know now, what has happened in my past. To want to do it all over again would be madness, unless it was one of those awesome go-pro lives where the awesomest bits happen in uber slo mo with cool beats.:)

Apanachi

There are a few past things I would really love to change, but changing them would mean I probably would never have met my husband, which would be a shame as he's a great guy and would also mean that I wouldn't have my two children, so I guess I wouldn't want to change too much, maybe just one or two job decisions that I made in the last 4-5 years, I'm also not sure if I would have built my house as I do feel stuck here at times

FizzleSticks

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Aglomerado

Nooooo! I've enough awkward memories without having to relive the fekkin' things...

Agricola

Someones moving in on Tom Cruise's patch!

I wouldnt relive it exactly as it was the first time, no. It's not nearly exciting enough. So far anyway.

Hedgemeister

Good question, and I suspect it's something those of a certain age ask ourselves fairly often!
Life is full of cross-roads and turning left, right or going straight on is our decision. One cannot turn back.
Once those decisions are made there is another feckin' X roads looming ahead, then another, and another, etc.
Personally I've made some wrong turns, I sleepwalked into some of them, was enticed into more, and being stubborn and not heeding advice I blundered into many. However, and luckily, most of these wrong decisions mattered little in the great scheme of things, but I've made some gigantic stupid ones which I'll always regret, but then everyone does if they would admit it.
Ah well, no going back now, but if I could, I would change a good few of them.