Days of Future Past NOT [21/10/23]

21/10/23 ManchuCandidate 10

It’s not always a grand idea to go back to the future. Even for Marty McFly who apparently unleashed the Trump timeline on us.

I used to (just last week) want to go back in time to change things and to undo the stupid I’ve done or the snowballs I’ve thrown.

Now, I’m not so sure. I learned lessons from the stupid things and mistakes I’ve done. I mean they were lessons I did not enjoy at all, but in the end that lesson made me a slightly less terrible of a person.

There aren’t many things I actually regret but not like I did when I was younger, more wistful and impatient.

So are you a weirdo like me who thinks about the path not taken aka alternative time lines or you’re more “No, I’m fine so would you stop writing about alternative time lines!!!!!”?

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10 Comments

  1. All the time. The one decision above them all would be to not get together with the woman who became my ex wife. If I could I would 100% change that.

  2. Things that I regret, for example going to grad school, still had good things come from them. Two of my closest friends I met during grad school.

    What I would love to do is give past me some grace and mental support. Cut myself a break for times when my headspace was spiraling and I was miserable because of blaming myself for things that ultimately were not in my control.

  3. As much as I love to contemplate quantum mechanics and parallel universes and whatnot, I also like to think that if my life were a video game, it could be said – in the long run – that I took the paragon approach?

    Granted, hindsight is always 20/20 and I definitely wish I treated people differently than I did in my past…but I’m reaching the point in which I’m as forgiving of myself as I am grateful for who/what I’ve become?

    I suppose I am just saying that I don’t think of you as a weirdo?

  4. Oh sure, but I do not dwell on it. I look to today and to the future, and try to live righteously.

  5. sure i think about it

    but if i hadnt dropped my aspirations of ruling the world in favour of chasing my dick around we’d probably already have had ww3

    so you know….probably for the best im easily distractable

    • especially today as i went to bed like 2 hours ago

      woke up feeling like i had full nights sleep

      and its not even 4 am….

      gib nuclear football….i has a game needs playing

  6. Career. 100% career. I really wish I’d studied something with higher earning potential. And failing that, I wish I’d course-corrected 20 years ago into something that had higher earning potential and better stability. Other than that, I’m good with the choices I made.

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