If some crazy white hair wide eyed guy (who sounded a bit like Christopher Lloyd) showed up with a Flux Capacitor equipped Delorean and said “I’ll let you go back to enjoy one decade in your life… pick!”
Which decade would you pick?
Or would you be the type who said “Nah”?
I think I would be ruining Back To The Future 4 by saying nah. It’s not that I’m so happy/self satisfied to be who I am, it’s that I know me and how I was at various ages. As much as I would want to correct the mistakes of the past (like throwing a snowball even harder and packed with ice and stones at the world’s self proclaimed richest man or not being an awkward jerk around the fairer sex), I also know how stubborn/bullheaded I was/still can be. Showing up as my older self isn’t going to change much if anything to my stubborn knowing all idiot phase of my younger self.
However, if I was to say yes, I guess it would be the 90s (like the damn Matrix) because it was the era of hope and delusion before the painful realities set in.
Or if you want to rant about how terrible the local sportsball teams have been or anything else on your mind… fire away?
shiiiiiit motherfucker…..take me back to the 60s
im going to woodstock whilst i still have long hair
Nothing wrong with that, but Doc Brown shakes his head.
I’m in Camp Nah.
I once thought that it would be great to change the future, but I don’t think it would end well which is why I’m in Camp Nah.
My only option is to go back to an earlier part in my own life? Not some era before I existed?
damnit….curse you for having better reading comprehension than me…
i guess woodstock is off the table
welp guess ill go back to the nineties then..
do i get to keep my knowledge?
coz that’d help
Of course. What’s the point of making the same mistakes again?
tbh….not sure id change anything
i could be better off if i did….
but theres a lot of good in my life id never meet if i changed a thing
and theres a lot of me that was born from fuck ups
i am who i am because i fucked up a lot along the way
and its made me meet people i never would have if i didnt
(including hayseed dixie actually….fun dudes)
if i fix my fuck ups….i would be a totally different person and probably not even be on this site
Just a hypothetical. It’s more about even if you had a chance to change the future, could you?
That makes sense!
I don’t know if my actions would do anything to change the future, but I’d love the chance to go back to about age 17-19 me and have a good heart to heart with myself about body image and better choices. Specifically, that how I looked right then was okay and I didn’t need to yo-yo diet and do other dumb shit for the next 15 years before getting to a point of more acceptance.
I had a hard time accepting I was my own damn problem. It wasn’t till I was 25-26 when things started to sink in. If I had showed up then I still wouldn’t convince myself otherwise as it was a lesson I needed to learn on my own.
That’s why I’m primarily on Team Nah.
Yeah as hard-headed as I was at that age, I don’t know that it would make a difference.
I’d mostly want to reach out to myself at some low point and tell me not to worry too much.
I’d absolutely go back and talk to myself. I’d tell myself all the things that my parents should have told me. And honestly, knowing myself, I’d listen to me.
The problem is I’m grabbing a ton of reference books and going Biff Tannen to try to fix the entire world, and I’d probably screw up. I wouldn’t get past trying to help Jimmy Carter beat Reagan before I butterfly effected the world even worse than it is now.
Damn Butterflies.
It’s tempting to want to change things for the better forgetting there are forces at work to keep them the same (MAGAts, oil/gas/power companies, etc.)
I’m more comfortable with my life now than I ever have been. I’d auction off my trip on the Delorean and buy myself something nice like presents for my wife and daughter.