Your life's "save point"?

[minsue]

I think answers like this indicate a strength of character that I'm lacking. Instead of wishing for a second chance, why don't I take what I have now, who I am now, and move forward and make something of myself?

But I find myself more like the uncle in "Napolean Dynamite" always wishing to go back to 1982. But atleast I'm not dumb enough to hook a "time machine" up to my genitals.

I don't think it shows a lack of anything, AM. If you'd have asked this 18 months ago or so, I'd have jumped at the chance to go back to my date and change my decision. Now, however, I'm in a different (and altogether happier than ever before) place in my life so now my choice would be no.

 

[CharleyH]

What if you could have saved a point in your life like you save a place in a video game? You could go back to this save point and start living your life again from that point on but knowing what you know now and potentially be able to change things.

Would you have a save point?
When would your save point be?
Is it ok to ponder on a save point now and then or is it too useless/self-destructive/idiotic to be thinking about and I should just live my life forward without thinking back?

Right now I'm thinking my save point would be December 25, 1987, 6:30 am, EST.

Hm, too many save points in my life, I might be left in an endless circle of repeating myself and if I was forced to remember everything 100 times over? Well, I might want to off myself due to the redundancy of the cycle.

In other words?

My save point would be May 24, 1966 at 8:23am. It was the moment I took my first breath, and I think that's the coolest moment for a save, but I would prefer to only use my save once over, and then use it only when I was ready to savour every single moment whether good or bad.

 

[AngeloMichael]

I don't think it shows a lack of anything, AM. If you'd have asked this 18 months ago or so, I'd have jumped at the chance to go back to my date and change my decision. Now, however, I'm in a different (and altogether happier than ever before) place in my life so now my choice would be no.

Well that's great that you are so happy, it makes me smile to know good people are getting what they deserve. I wish you continued happiness.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

November 27th, 1999, 10:15 p.m.

I don't go down this path anymore. I used to wonder if I had just stopped instead of driving by his house like always, could I have saved him? That line of thinking is just pain. I've made peace with it. Like it or not, the life I have now is a direct result of that night and that's where I am. I'm not religious, but I have to believe everything happens for a reason.

 

[Guest]

Careful with that one. Too much Butterfly effect would put me in peril two years later. You interrupt my parents for any reason and I'll be cross.

The Earl

Oh, I wouldn't do that for the world, Earl

 

[Guest]

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

May 18, 2001 ... I would have made the decision to go straight home from the doctor's instead of stopping at Toys 'R' Us. Had that happened, we would have passed by the intersection a full hour before that very old lady passed through it without bothering to look and see if anything was coming.

 

[minsue]

May 18, 2001 ... I would have made the decision to go straight home from the doctor's instead of stopping at Toys 'R' Us. Had that happened, we would have passed by the intersection a full hour before that very old lady passed through it without bothering to look and see if anything was coming.

 

[MagicaPractica]

If I could still know what I know now, my second year of college, 1993.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

regret sucks...

 

[NoJo]

regret sucks...

One of the reasons I don't really have any regrets is that I still have no idea how my life will eventually turn out -- the plot is well-written and I think will keep me guessing right up till the last page.

 

[kendo1]

One of the reasons I don't really have any regrets is that I still have no idea how my life will eventually turn out -- the plot is well-written and I think will keep me guessing right up till the last page.

Your just getting to the middle of the book, the good bit.

ken

 

[Aurora Black]

Having it put in those terms...

Makes you want to think twice about skipping to the end.

 

[kendo1]

Never read the last page.

 

[Raine D8]

The day I joined the AH.

 

[NoJo]

Makes you want to think twice about skipping to the end.

The fact that there is an end freaks me out sometimes, but all the more reason to read slow.

 

[Aurora Black]

The day I joined the AH.

Regret?

 

[Aurora Black]

The fact that there is an end freaks me out sometimes, but all the more reason to read slow.

Exactly.

 

[matriarch]

I happen to believe that everything that has happened in my life before now has led me to the point where I am, so to go back and live my life differently from a certain point would likely mean not being where I am.

As where I am now, is a very happy place, and I am a very happy person, with a wonderful future to look forward to, no, I don't believe I would like to go back and change things at all.

But thank you for the offer.

 

[Sex and Death]

My softer side says I'd like to redo life so that I didn't hurt all the people I've hurt.

Some other part of me says that all life is suffering and we really just only have this very moment to live fully, as if we're already dead.

S&D

 

[NoJo]

My save point would be the moment just before I did whatever I did that fucked up my back -- probably picking a cup off the floor. This time somebody else can pick it up, dammit.

I coulda shoulda mighta had a number of different exciting lives, but basically I have a strong sense of destiny right now -- not necessarily a destiny that will lead to great things, or even to happiness, but a destiny nonetheless.

"I am your density" -- Marty McFly

 

[Guest]

i need stipulations...
but
i think october 25 1995.
if i could keep some experiences and let the others go... know what?
fuck it. i dont think i would, really. who i am is made of all the shit and slim as well as the good stuff.
so...the idea is fun but if it changed who i am now, then no.

 

[Guest]

.....

 

[cantdog]

I figure every night, when i go to bed, that's "Save Game".

If you die that day, it'd be back to the last save. You'll have lost only one day, and you can maybe beat the Reaper the second time through. A lotta folks die of inattention, for instance. A plan like that would extend your life until some long-term disease caught up.

 

[cantdog]

But to hell with that. This'll do. I stay. Retro me, Angelo.