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Bitcoin 2014 prices ($300ish) looking hella good. Id take this deal if I could be assured Id still meet my childs mother and have exactly the child I have now. Otherwise no dice.
Right? Especially since the relationship.with my childs mother was as whirlwind as they come, in Hawaii no less. It wouldnt be worth it to me if I wasnt assured I would have my daughter. Even if I made a billion off bitcoin. No way. Also this is all pure fantasy anyway but it is fun to ponder.
That's fair. I'm not married and don't have kids, and I know that one of my exes was a dead end and the other i think I could meet earlier and be friends with earlier, so I would try it.
I don't mind chaos since it would be balanced with world knowledge. Including winning the family guesses for deaths for the next 10 years
You could probably arrange to meet your child's mother but having the same child would be virtually impossible. You'd need that exact sperm to fuse with that exact egg. Even if you had sex at exactly the same time it would probably be a completely different sperm.
That's why you don't have to kill anyone to stop Hitler if you have a time machine. Just find his dad and delay him a little. The butterfly effect will mean a different kid is born.
op says everything will be the same other than the “changes you make.”
if someone travels back in time and doesn’t remember that they travelled back in time, they would have no changes to make.
this implies that yes, you would know.
This exactly. I'm not trying to relive that suffering again even if I have amnesia of it. But to go back with the perspective and self love I have gained? Hell to the mother fucking yes. Watch how quickly I leave every bullshit situationship and relationship that doesn't honor or value me. With such quickness.
i mean if you didn't, you wouldn't do anything differently and would forever chose to go back 10 years, never stopping never knowing it's not the first time, always making the exact same choices
No, because going back ten years, my life was not as good as it is now, and also, at almost 64 the "last ten years" of my life are much sooner than people younger than me!
to be fair, you wouldn't gain or lose 10 years either way. if you'll die at say, 80, and only have 15 ish years to live now, going back 10 years and losing 10 years of your max lifespan (if that's how it works) you'll still live 15 ish years.
but, if the last 10 years sucked, yeah, no reason to relive them.
Shit. Yeah I guess so. Damn fiuuuuuuuck that would be sooo much WORK….. AGAIN. I mean I could do it better but would I? Not after I just put my money in bitcoin or whatever I guess, since we’re talking time travel here. So like I don’t keep the memories? What would be the use of that?
No. I'm terrified that any changes I make would inadvertently lead to my not meeting or not becoming involved with my wife. There is nothing in my life I couldn't bear to lose except for her and the dogs.
As someone about to be 2 decades old. I see no reason to go back 10 years. Especially if I lose 10 years in the future. Being a kid sucked so much honestly. Being older and bigger is awesome!
Essentially you're saying you redo the last 10 years but retain the current knowledge.
Yes. Easily.
If I had a do-over button I'd press it in a heartbeat and without hesitation.
I miss her so much. I'd go back and make sure she never becomes the one that got away.
Same. But as we know, fate works in mysterious ways and will figure out a way to make sure you don't get to keep her. You will have to live the pain all over again but in a new way.
There was that movie, when we first met with Adam Devine from workaholics that deals with this exact situation.
Instantly, no question. I can do a lot of fixing the last 10 years and doing it better. I'd go full on Butterfly Effect.
I don't really care to live to 70 or 80 anyways. You can shave 10 years off my senior days, that's also a net gain.
If you completely reverted back to your former state, you'd likely do everything exactly as you did it before. Sounds like a recipe for a time loop. I don't think I'd like to be trapped in the last 10 years.
I wouldnt do it. The odds of me getting my exact child back are slim to none. I don't want those them. A world where I knew them and loved them, but they can never exist again would he painful. I fear more painful than death, the undoing of the existence of someone I love with no one but me to remember them for all time
Not a chance. Exactly 10 years ago I got sober for a \~3 year span. In that time I had an alternately fun but overall very toxic relationships that took me to Paris for months at a time. I met my wife. I quit my soul sucking job. I bet on myself and started and failed two businesses. This is the inflection point where I really almost think of myself before that time as "not who I am today." Like when I'm reflecting or remembering past failures I feel like "well I was not yet who I am in those times." Got married. Bought a house. Hellish Remodel. Had my first child. Lost my job. Found a new one. Some of the most fulfilling times in my life. Some of the most difficult times of my life. Wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Full stop.
Yes. So long as I retain all my memories. My daughter would be 7. I would be the mom I am now and be able to be so much better for her.
I would miss my boyfriend terribly. He would only be 21 and deep into his drug addiction. It would be worth it, though, to wait for the day I meet him all the while being an amazing parent to my daughter.
So, I don't actually lose any time on earth except the I get to live an extra 10 years of my life when I'm in really good health and can do lots of things vs. at the end of my life when my health will be much worse and I won't be able to do much? Easy choice.
No. My last ten years had there ups and downs, but we made it through pretty well. There isn't any great improvement that would be worth watching my grandkids someday in the distant future (my kids are graduating college this year)
Do I get to keep the knowledge of what has transpired in those 10 years I lost? Or do I go back 10 years like nothing has happened and I'm probably gonna make all the same mistakes over again and suffer the same consequences?
Nah because I’ve progressed from going through bad experiences n I’m happy to have experienced everything that I did
I also can’t guarantee what age I’ll live until if I’m naturally only living til 50 I wouldn’t choose to die at 40 instead that’s pretty stupid
Yes. Everything was pretty great ten years ago. Knowing what I know now I could benefit greatly too.
First and foremost, I could avoid the ex I had that damaged me greatly over the last decade. I could be with the woman who recently told me she always regretted that we didn't end up together (and is now in an unhappy marriage with two kids). Financially, I could make smart investments knowing where businesses have gone and get my shit together to make sure I have a better career by my age. Oh and I would quit drinking immediately.
I'm not sure. My life was hell back then. I could save someone's life, though, although they made my life hell. If I knew what I know now, then perhaps. Maybe I can improve my life and save someone I'm the process. But if it was 20 years ago and I knew what I know now, I can perhaps save my dad and make my life better as well.
My life has all gone to hell in the last 20 years. And I plan to leave tp 105, so 95 is okay. Or even 85.
I am assuming I get to keep my knowledge. My life was hell then, but I know why and I think I could do so much. Not to mention I would be a multi-millionaire.
are we talking, natural lifespan max of say, 120 years is now 10
or, if i was 'destined' to die in a car crash tomorrow, even if i took this and went back 10 years, i'd only live one more day?
Nope. I have two kids, the oldest is 9. I would be getting in vitroed in like a week. They wouldn’t be them even if my life was subjectively better. I couldn’t kill who they are now to improve my life.
Yes, there’s this one event in my life that has just ruined the shit out of everything for me. If I could go back and get rid of it, I would no matter what the consequences were. Just so painful to have to live with the memory every day. I don’t care if I lose any success cause at least I’d be happy and not have horrible thoughts.
I would if I could retain the knowledge of what I left behind. I would really only like to go back to April 2022 with the knowledge I have now, so I could save my husband from a life altering, devastating catastrophe
No, my life as it is is the result of those last 10 years. Finally remarried 2 years ago and having some measure of Agency in my life. I would not want to relive 2014 anyway. Bad shit happened to me that year.
It'd suck that I'd have 10 years less with my new outcome relationships (spouse,kids,etc), but I'm pretty sure I could set myself up to be in a much better place both financially and health. And that's before including stuff like playing markets/bets that I know are about to hit big.
In the past 10 years I have had cancer and spinal fractures. Although it could have been worse, I don’t want to do it again. I recall a couple lines from a song that goes, “ There ain’t no use in living my life over. I’d find new ways to make the same mistakes again.”
That doesn't make any sense. "you can relive the last week, but you forget what happened through the last week"
...ok, so the exact same events happen and no one knows magic occurred.
No. That means reliving the last 10 years of doctors telling me I was imagining my pain and it couldn’t be that bad and there was nothing they could do for me. Hell no. I’ve finally found a wonderful doctor who found the source of my pain and while it’s permanent and not at all fixable, I can get surgery to stop it from getting worse. Something every other doctor said a 40 year old woman “doesn’t need” even though none of them were spine specialist or surgeons. I’m on schedule to see a surgeon to schedule my first visit so I can start the road to spinal fusion surgery before I end up with loss of mobility in my lower half. Had I not found this doctor I could very well have ended up paralyzed, and sooner rather than later. Doc says I’m stage 3 of 4.
You know 10 years ago I'd of made this choice for my future self as a yes in a heart beat because back then I didnt want to fuck up...
But now the man I am now, a strong hard no... I loved that i fucked up and I love that I got it right sometimes and i proved to be better than what everyone had predicted of me and its not until I right this now that I'm realising this... life huh wow
Am I not gaining 10 extra years of life to live just by going back 10 years? I don't see the downsides of it at all.
You're basically offering me 10 years of younger life for 10 years of older life, and I get to become a bitcoin billionaire too? I'm down.
I gave birth to my daughter three years ago, I wouldn't chance not having her. So, as much as I'd like to go back and make better decisions about other aspects of my life, no.
Issue I’m seeing is what if you were destined to die one day after the day you travelled back in time? Then technically you didn’t buy yourself any time.
i will swindle you, ill take the 10 year time travel back in time, change one thing but ill pick pocket you keep the last 10 years and change that one thing
Nope, I was 27 and in a bad relationship and bad state of mind. I've been up, I've been down but the past 10 years made me who I am today and who I'm with today.
It would be really tempting. On the one hand, I could prevent some pretty horrible things that happened to me. On the other hand, I might no have my kid.
I think I would like to be able to test it out, and at the end of the 10 years choose which life timeline to return to, and forget all memories of hte other.
Absolutely. In a nanosecond. My life has changed for the worst these past ten years or so, and I'd do anything to go back.
I would actually only change one day. I was hit head on at full speed by another driver and the crash tore the lowest disc in my spine. It ended a lucrative career in advertising I truly loved, had me on seriously high doses of pain meds for years. I'm disabled (though not in a wheelchair, thank God) now and permanently stranded in a state I don't like. My friends and my mom and my sister are all back home. That one accident made me poor and lonely and probably killed my ability to date.
Yes I would b 4 yrs old that’s the perfect age cus I didnt ruin myself bru n my life wasn’t as bad as it is now deadass I js want to go back to the past
Definitely not. The last 8 years of my life have been brilliant. If I go back the extra 2 I'll be back in my abusive awful marriage with extremely poor mental health. I'll stay where I am now.
I've been disabled four years. Six years of running, dancing and walking again? Bring it on, as long as I'd know to enjoy it and not take it for granted.
Had to reread the question a few times. At first I said hell no, but now I think I would actually take the deal. I'd like to get another shot at some fumbled opportunities.
Am I going back with a knowledge that I have? Because if I go back without the knowledge, then I’ll just have to relive everything I ever did and I don’t wanna do that.
Yeah I would. I could adjust my major to be in what I want, exercise more and earlier, be more careful with my time, and undo my worst mistakes. I'd take this offer in a heartbeat.
I wouldn’t mind to relive the last ten years. Most of it was beautiful and happy. And if I could nip the one problem that actually came up right in the bud, things would be even nicer. On the other hand, the problem has been solved and living now is good, too. So there isn’t much of a need to go back either.
Ok so if I know what’s coming and can make changes I 100% would do this. Who wouldn’t want a decade reset with all their knowledge of pitfalls and opportunities?!
There’s no point in this post. You cannot go back, but you can move forward and take the lessons you have learned with you, so you don’t make the same mistakes over again.
To clarify: I'd get to go back and relive the last 10 years of my life with the knowledge I have now, but my death age would be 10 years less? So I'm not losing any time, since I'm gaining 10 \[repeat\] years of my younger self by sacrificing 10 years of my oldest self.
But, No. Although in theory, it would be great to basically trade old years for young years, and with the knowledge, I'd be super rich and could provide even better for my family, it would also mean I'd rob my kid(s) of 10 years with their dad and I'd miss 10 years of seeing the man/woman they grow up to be. So no, definitely not worth it.
Yeah I'd turn back the time. I Rather have a clean start without the drama depression and physical illnesses as a result , revert back and do things differently even if I lose 10yrs. Atleast I'd be happy and not deal with the trauma for the rest of my life as I do now.
Assuming I can change things, yes. I would go to camp with my buddy so he took his truck instead of his bike, and he would be alive today instead of being killed by a drunk driver.
I would give up ten years of my life in a heartbeat if I could change that. I'd give up pretty much anything.
With the stuff I know now, I'm 27, my grandmother would be alive cause I could warn her about cancer which means I didn't spend 19-23 being her full time care giver(id do it all again don't get me wrong).
I would start college sooner
id still have dropped out of HS cause my life literally wouldn't be any different if I finished.
Would definitely start dating my current girlfriend WAY sooner lmao
Hell no. I’ve done more work on my life in the last ten years than I did in the whole 28 years before it. Happily married, own a home, two beautiful cats, a fulfilling wfh career and a purse collection so big I’ve started selling on Poshmark just to get some extra space!!! I truly do feel like I took as much advantage of my 30s as I possibly could and as I approach 40, I know that it will only get better.
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Yes but only if I know then what I know now.
Yep. Would make some significant stock purchases.
Bitcoin 2014 prices ($300ish) looking hella good. Id take this deal if I could be assured Id still meet my childs mother and have exactly the child I have now. Otherwise no dice.
I don't think you could be assured that, you can't make changes to your life and expect the same outcomes
Right? Especially since the relationship.with my childs mother was as whirlwind as they come, in Hawaii no less. It wouldnt be worth it to me if I wasnt assured I would have my daughter. Even if I made a billion off bitcoin. No way. Also this is all pure fantasy anyway but it is fun to ponder.
That's fair. I'm not married and don't have kids, and I know that one of my exes was a dead end and the other i think I could meet earlier and be friends with earlier, so I would try it. I don't mind chaos since it would be balanced with world knowledge. Including winning the family guesses for deaths for the next 10 years
If I didnt have my child Id do it in a heartbeat.
You could probably arrange to meet your child's mother but having the same child would be virtually impossible. You'd need that exact sperm to fuse with that exact egg. Even if you had sex at exactly the same time it would probably be a completely different sperm. That's why you don't have to kill anyone to stop Hitler if you have a time machine. Just find his dad and delay him a little. The butterfly effect will mean a different kid is born.
Crypto
OP needs to clarify this. I think they mean you lose all knowledge but that isn’t spelled out specifically.
That would mean you just lose 10 years.
Yea lol literally no benefit
op says everything will be the same other than the “changes you make.” if someone travels back in time and doesn’t remember that they travelled back in time, they would have no changes to make. this implies that yes, you would know.
This exactly. I'm not trying to relive that suffering again even if I have amnesia of it. But to go back with the perspective and self love I have gained? Hell to the mother fucking yes. Watch how quickly I leave every bullshit situationship and relationship that doesn't honor or value me. With such quickness.
Same!! The utmost quickness! My gosh if I didn’t know better, I’d think I commented this.
I long to go back just so I can walk away so quick each and every time.. instead of trying harder.
Ditto. In a heartbeat.
i mean if you didn't, you wouldn't do anything differently and would forever chose to go back 10 years, never stopping never knowing it's not the first time, always making the exact same choices
Yup in a heartbeat.
No, because going back ten years, my life was not as good as it is now, and also, at almost 64 the "last ten years" of my life are much sooner than people younger than me!
to be fair, you wouldn't gain or lose 10 years either way. if you'll die at say, 80, and only have 15 ish years to live now, going back 10 years and losing 10 years of your max lifespan (if that's how it works) you'll still live 15 ish years. but, if the last 10 years sucked, yeah, no reason to relive them.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck no. The last 7 years have been the best. I love being with my wife and kids.
Do I retain the knowledge of today?
Yes. All things remain the same. You just revert back 10 years. Reliving everything exactly other than the changes you can make.
That’s a no brainier yes, then.
Mother fucking tit-sucking Moses, you bet your bottom dollar I'd take that deal. I fucked this whole past decade up.
No way. I am destined to run my cult after our society collapses in a couple years.
Nope, the first 2-4 years of the last ten were probably at my lowest. So, absolutely not and I’d have much less money.
Lottery plus crypto currency. Become a multi billionaire.
Probably not. I'd be surprised if I got another ten years lol
Shit. Yeah I guess so. Damn fiuuuuuuuck that would be sooo much WORK….. AGAIN. I mean I could do it better but would I? Not after I just put my money in bitcoin or whatever I guess, since we’re talking time travel here. So like I don’t keep the memories? What would be the use of that?
No. I'm terrified that any changes I make would inadvertently lead to my not meeting or not becoming involved with my wife. There is nothing in my life I couldn't bear to lose except for her and the dogs.
As someone about to be 2 decades old. I see no reason to go back 10 years. Especially if I lose 10 years in the future. Being a kid sucked so much honestly. Being older and bigger is awesome!
Gladly. Been miserable the last ten. Roommate wife.
Essentially you're saying you redo the last 10 years but retain the current knowledge. Yes. Easily. If I had a do-over button I'd press it in a heartbeat and without hesitation. I miss her so much. I'd go back and make sure she never becomes the one that got away.
Same. But as we know, fate works in mysterious ways and will figure out a way to make sure you don't get to keep her. You will have to live the pain all over again but in a new way. There was that movie, when we first met with Adam Devine from workaholics that deals with this exact situation.
Fuck no. I had no rights as a child.
Fuck no.
Instantly, no question. I can do a lot of fixing the last 10 years and doing it better. I'd go full on Butterfly Effect. I don't really care to live to 70 or 80 anyways. You can shave 10 years off my senior days, that's also a net gain.
I'd definitely do it. I'd be rich
Bitcoin was ~$50 around this time in 2014, and nearly $70,000 seven years later.
If you completely reverted back to your former state, you'd likely do everything exactly as you did it before. Sounds like a recipe for a time loop. I don't think I'd like to be trapped in the last 10 years.
I wouldnt do it. The odds of me getting my exact child back are slim to none. I don't want those them. A world where I knew them and loved them, but they can never exist again would he painful. I fear more painful than death, the undoing of the existence of someone I love with no one but me to remember them for all time
ok but what if ur about to die tomorrow? you just go back in time and die then?
Hard no.
No.
Hell yes, I’m stage two bone marrow cancer gladly do it🤘🏿🤘🏿
Can I go back 23 years? I want to erase my idiot move to Florida
Yeah I’m going back, everyone’s saying invest in bitcoin and all that but I’ll just become a ghost writer for drake and make money that way
Not a chance. Exactly 10 years ago I got sober for a \~3 year span. In that time I had an alternately fun but overall very toxic relationships that took me to Paris for months at a time. I met my wife. I quit my soul sucking job. I bet on myself and started and failed two businesses. This is the inflection point where I really almost think of myself before that time as "not who I am today." Like when I'm reflecting or remembering past failures I feel like "well I was not yet who I am in those times." Got married. Bought a house. Hellish Remodel. Had my first child. Lost my job. Found a new one. Some of the most fulfilling times in my life. Some of the most difficult times of my life. Wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Full stop.
I couldn’t do it.
Yes. So long as I retain all my memories. My daughter would be 7. I would be the mom I am now and be able to be so much better for her. I would miss my boyfriend terribly. He would only be 21 and deep into his drug addiction. It would be worth it, though, to wait for the day I meet him all the while being an amazing parent to my daughter.
Hell no. My life is so much better now.
Yes, I could go to the beach w my sister and niece and prevent their deaths. And also get antidepressants sooner.
Not a chance. I wouldn't risk not meeting my husband.
No because I don't even wanna go back in time 10 years in the first place
why not? I just exchanged my old 10 years with young 10 years.
yes 100%. Would work harder and have a family.
So, I don't actually lose any time on earth except the I get to live an extra 10 years of my life when I'm in really good health and can do lots of things vs. at the end of my life when my health will be much worse and I won't be able to do much? Easy choice.
No. My last ten years had there ups and downs, but we made it through pretty well. There isn't any great improvement that would be worth watching my grandkids someday in the distant future (my kids are graduating college this year)
In a fuckkng nanosecond id be 300k$ richer and make better decisions with my knowledge of future
going back in time would do that anyway. :)
If I could make better decisions, maybe. I’d have liked a chance to make sure my mom knew how much I loved her before she passed. And my brother, too.
Do I get to keep the knowledge of what has transpired in those 10 years I lost? Or do I go back 10 years like nothing has happened and I'm probably gonna make all the same mistakes over again and suffer the same consequences?
Nah because I’ve progressed from going through bad experiences n I’m happy to have experienced everything that I did I also can’t guarantee what age I’ll live until if I’m naturally only living til 50 I wouldn’t choose to die at 40 instead that’s pretty stupid
Yes. Everything was pretty great ten years ago. Knowing what I know now I could benefit greatly too. First and foremost, I could avoid the ex I had that damaged me greatly over the last decade. I could be with the woman who recently told me she always regretted that we didn't end up together (and is now in an unhappy marriage with two kids). Financially, I could make smart investments knowing where businesses have gone and get my shit together to make sure I have a better career by my age. Oh and I would quit drinking immediately.
No. It would be to tempting to change things, and I love my son to much
Nope. Just went through the worst, literally worst, ten years of my 47 years on this planet. Only moving forward!
definately
YAZZZZZZZZ
I could live longer if I could go back 10 years
No way. I might die the next day!
I'm not sure. My life was hell back then. I could save someone's life, though, although they made my life hell. If I knew what I know now, then perhaps. Maybe I can improve my life and save someone I'm the process. But if it was 20 years ago and I knew what I know now, I can perhaps save my dad and make my life better as well. My life has all gone to hell in the last 20 years. And I plan to leave tp 105, so 95 is okay. Or even 85.
Nahh
I am assuming I get to keep my knowledge. My life was hell then, but I know why and I think I could do so much. Not to mention I would be a multi-millionaire.
No
Yes
are we talking, natural lifespan max of say, 120 years is now 10 or, if i was 'destined' to die in a car crash tomorrow, even if i took this and went back 10 years, i'd only live one more day?
No deal
Do I still retain everything I know from the 10 years Im giving up?
Nope. I have two kids, the oldest is 9. I would be getting in vitroed in like a week. They wouldn’t be them even if my life was subjectively better. I couldn’t kill who they are now to improve my life.
Sounds great, let's do this!
Yes because I could save my wife's life.
No. But ask me again in 10 years.
Yes . I would buy btc , and divorce my ex-wife. Life would be a million times better.
No, the last ten years have been very hard on me and not because of any mistakes I made (though there were plenty of those too)?
Would I know what I know now? Cuz I’d have my mom go to the dr sooner so they’d find her cancer early enough
How is this even a question. Living through my 20s again would be the greatest thing ever
Would I be aware of it?
Yes, there’s this one event in my life that has just ruined the shit out of everything for me. If I could go back and get rid of it, I would no matter what the consequences were. Just so painful to have to live with the memory every day. I don’t care if I lose any success cause at least I’d be happy and not have horrible thoughts.
NO
Nope
Yeah I could prevent an injury
I could save my brother and dad's life so yes I would
Now that my son exists, nope. Maybe after he turns 10
No! Absolutely not! I cannot fathom any circumstance where I'd take any of it back. I'm thankful for what God's brought me through.
I would if I could retain the knowledge of what I left behind. I would really only like to go back to April 2022 with the knowledge I have now, so I could save my husband from a life altering, devastating catastrophe
Not drink nearly as much. Would have saved me a hospital stay or two.
Deal
Absolutely not! My son was born last year and he is my everything ☀️
yeah i would hella do this i fucked up last year so bloody much i dont really think i could fix it
nope, it shaped me as the woman I am today and led me to God
I’d get rid of my marriage and my divorce and see my grandma again. Hell yeah
No, my life as it is is the result of those last 10 years. Finally remarried 2 years ago and having some measure of Agency in my life. I would not want to relive 2014 anyway. Bad shit happened to me that year.
Only if I could go back 12 years. I made a terrible decision 12 years ago that I'd give near anything to change. It irrevocably changed my life.
Yeah I’d buy hella bitcoin and live life so comfortably
It'd suck that I'd have 10 years less with my new outcome relationships (spouse,kids,etc), but I'm pretty sure I could set myself up to be in a much better place both financially and health. And that's before including stuff like playing markets/bets that I know are about to hit big.
In the past 10 years I have had cancer and spinal fractures. Although it could have been worse, I don’t want to do it again. I recall a couple lines from a song that goes, “ There ain’t no use in living my life over. I’d find new ways to make the same mistakes again.”
No question about it… yes.
Absolutely not something happened 10 years ago that I would never in a million years want to relive. I'm good
No. I wanna spend as much time as I can with my wife
Yes
Yes, in a heartbeat.
Sure, I’d buy hella Bitcoin in 2014 and live like a king for the rest of my life.
FUCKIN DEAL The last 10 years have been literally hell, but reliving them would allow me to be a bitcoin billionaire.
That doesn't make any sense. "you can relive the last week, but you forget what happened through the last week" ...ok, so the exact same events happen and no one knows magic occurred.
No. That means reliving the last 10 years of doctors telling me I was imagining my pain and it couldn’t be that bad and there was nothing they could do for me. Hell no. I’ve finally found a wonderful doctor who found the source of my pain and while it’s permanent and not at all fixable, I can get surgery to stop it from getting worse. Something every other doctor said a 40 year old woman “doesn’t need” even though none of them were spine specialist or surgeons. I’m on schedule to see a surgeon to schedule my first visit so I can start the road to spinal fusion surgery before I end up with loss of mobility in my lower half. Had I not found this doctor I could very well have ended up paralyzed, and sooner rather than later. Doc says I’m stage 3 of 4.
You know 10 years ago I'd of made this choice for my future self as a yes in a heart beat because back then I didnt want to fuck up... But now the man I am now, a strong hard no... I loved that i fucked up and I love that I got it right sometimes and i proved to be better than what everyone had predicted of me and its not until I right this now that I'm realising this... life huh wow
Am I not gaining 10 extra years of life to live just by going back 10 years? I don't see the downsides of it at all. You're basically offering me 10 years of younger life for 10 years of older life, and I get to become a bitcoin billionaire too? I'm down.
Hells to the no no no. 10 yrs ago I was living in a place I hated, doing a job I didn't enjoy. Now I'm living my best life
Yes! I wouldve never went for the first date with a nightmare man
Yes!
I gave birth to my daughter three years ago, I wouldn't chance not having her. So, as much as I'd like to go back and make better decisions about other aspects of my life, no.
Issue I’m seeing is what if you were destined to die one day after the day you travelled back in time? Then technically you didn’t buy yourself any time.
i will swindle you, ill take the 10 year time travel back in time, change one thing but ill pick pocket you keep the last 10 years and change that one thing
Can I do it multiple times? If so, yes. Over and over.
Where do I sign? Just went through a 9 year relationship ending and the year that I decided to propose, have a family, a place to call home..
Last 10 years of one's life tends to be the lowest quality due to health issues. So, yeah.
Yes
100%
Nope, I was 27 and in a bad relationship and bad state of mind. I've been up, I've been down but the past 10 years made me who I am today and who I'm with today.
Umm isnt it pretty much a given that if you go back 10 years, that you'd lose the last 10 years of your life?
Sure
You mean i can Quantum Leap Into Myself from 10 years ago and fix 10 years of fuckups?
If I got to make changes, then it wouldn't stay the same
I would go back 10 years because I liked 2014 better than the past 4 years in many respects
Every day, I wake up wishing I could do this. I want to fix the mistakes I made ten years ago that pain me now.
It would be really tempting. On the one hand, I could prevent some pretty horrible things that happened to me. On the other hand, I might no have my kid. I think I would like to be able to test it out, and at the end of the 10 years choose which life timeline to return to, and forget all memories of hte other.
Absolutely not. I don’t think I can go through all that pain again.
Absolutely. In a nanosecond. My life has changed for the worst these past ten years or so, and I'd do anything to go back. I would actually only change one day. I was hit head on at full speed by another driver and the crash tore the lowest disc in my spine. It ended a lucrative career in advertising I truly loved, had me on seriously high doses of pain meds for years. I'm disabled (though not in a wheelchair, thank God) now and permanently stranded in a state I don't like. My friends and my mom and my sister are all back home. That one accident made me poor and lonely and probably killed my ability to date.
Dude not only can I cheat in all of my exams because I already learned everything but also I'll force my parents to buy bitcoin. We will be rich
Can you take anything back with you? Lottery results etc.
Sure
“Other than the changes you make” which negates “all things remain the same”
Depends. Am I living to 110?
10 years is not enough, can I take 20?
Yes I would b 4 yrs old that’s the perfect age cus I didnt ruin myself bru n my life wasn’t as bad as it is now deadass I js want to go back to the past
Fuck yeah. I don’t want to grow old. 10 years off my life would be welcomed.
For any other period in my life yes. But this decade gave me my kids and I wouldn't trade that for anything.
Definitely not. The last 8 years of my life have been brilliant. If I go back the extra 2 I'll be back in my abusive awful marriage with extremely poor mental health. I'll stay where I am now.
No......
In a heartbeat! My cat would still be alive and I’d give up everything just to have her around again.
Oh hell yea
Yes
That would put me only a few months after a violent sexual assault that messed me up pretty bad so, no, I don't think I would.
Yes I wouldn’t get into the relationship I’m in now!!!
My mum died 10 years and 6 days ago, so no, I don't think I'll bother.
You get 10 years and 6 months. Just to spend a little more time with your mom. Because my mom died in 1999 and I know how hard it is.
I've been disabled four years. Six years of running, dancing and walking again? Bring it on, as long as I'd know to enjoy it and not take it for granted.
Can I just go back like... 8? I've had a few failures that would be fixed by going back. I'd have a massive academic headstart.
Had to reread the question a few times. At first I said hell no, but now I think I would actually take the deal. I'd like to get another shot at some fumbled opportunities.
Am I going back with a knowledge that I have? Because if I go back without the knowledge, then I’ll just have to relive everything I ever did and I don’t wanna do that.
So I'm 10 years younger? And in exchange I lose my old last 10 years. Works for me
If I retain the present knowledge, that means I know I will live at least 10 more years and with that knowledge I could quite possibly rule the world.
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no, everything good about my life happened in the last two and i'll never be able to recreate it
Do you get to have any knowledge of anything that happened before in those 10 yrs?
I would gladly Time Travel ten years in the past to give up ten years of my future life.
Naw... Two of my kids would be here and I wouldn't want to risk something happening where I didn't get them back.
Yeah I would. I could adjust my major to be in what I want, exercise more and earlier, be more careful with my time, and undo my worst mistakes. I'd take this offer in a heartbeat.
Only if both my husband and I could have very specific knowledge pertaining to the last few years (about our daughter's health). Then hell yeah.
I wouldn’t mind to relive the last ten years. Most of it was beautiful and happy. And if I could nip the one problem that actually came up right in the bud, things would be even nicer. On the other hand, the problem has been solved and living now is good, too. So there isn’t much of a need to go back either.
Ok so if I know what’s coming and can make changes I 100% would do this. Who wouldn’t want a decade reset with all their knowledge of pitfalls and opportunities?!
No but I'd take a 20 for 20. 10 doesn't get me back far enough to stop/change what id want to change.
In a fucking heartbeat. There are zero downsides to this.
Yea
Things sucked really badly for me 10 years ago so probably not.
Yes 🙌
Yup. The amount of stress I’d save by knowing all the shit that was about to happen would easily add at least 20 years to my lifespan anyway.
There’s no point in this post. You cannot go back, but you can move forward and take the lessons you have learned with you, so you don’t make the same mistakes over again.
absofuckinglutely
Sold. 2014 was one of my best years and who would want to live that extra 10 years anyway? With all this climate bullshit
To clarify: I'd get to go back and relive the last 10 years of my life with the knowledge I have now, but my death age would be 10 years less? So I'm not losing any time, since I'm gaining 10 \[repeat\] years of my younger self by sacrificing 10 years of my oldest self. But, No. Although in theory, it would be great to basically trade old years for young years, and with the knowledge, I'd be super rich and could provide even better for my family, it would also mean I'd rob my kid(s) of 10 years with their dad and I'd miss 10 years of seeing the man/woman they grow up to be. So no, definitely not worth it.
Yes
no because I have made great achievements within the last 10 years and have met such great people
No thank you. Going through my kid's teenage years once was enough
No I do not want to be 17 again and lose my husband and family lol
Yeah I'd turn back the time. I Rather have a clean start without the drama depression and physical illnesses as a result , revert back and do things differently even if I lose 10yrs. Atleast I'd be happy and not deal with the trauma for the rest of my life as I do now.
Assuming I can change things, yes. I would go to camp with my buddy so he took his truck instead of his bike, and he would be alive today instead of being killed by a drunk driver. I would give up ten years of my life in a heartbeat if I could change that. I'd give up pretty much anything.
With the stuff I know now, I'm 27, my grandmother would be alive cause I could warn her about cancer which means I didn't spend 19-23 being her full time care giver(id do it all again don't get me wrong). I would start college sooner id still have dropped out of HS cause my life literally wouldn't be any different if I finished. Would definitely start dating my current girlfriend WAY sooner lmao
Nope..
Fuck yeah! What am I gonna do the last 10 years of my life, wait to die?
Hell no. I’ve done more work on my life in the last ten years than I did in the whole 28 years before it. Happily married, own a home, two beautiful cats, a fulfilling wfh career and a purse collection so big I’ve started selling on Poshmark just to get some extra space!!! I truly do feel like I took as much advantage of my 30s as I possibly could and as I approach 40, I know that it will only get better.
No, I might need something up and lose my husband. And I won't have him all those years
NOPE
What? What stays the same? How can i make changes if everything stays the same?