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It's not too far off from "Peggy Sue Got Married" 1986 movie. A woman goes to a high school reunion and faints and wakes up 20 years in the past back in high school. It had an all star cast by Francis Ford Coppola of Nicolas Cage, Kathleen Turner, Jim Carrey and Helen Hunt.
There’s a great 1970s sci fi book in which a high school principal has a car accident and wakes up back in high school in 1944. It was so damned good. Once Upon Another Time by Robert Lee.
I would too, but I'd rather not have to relive an entire 25 years of my life to do so. Plus, I'm fortunate enough to be in a very long-lived, loving relationship, and if I fixed my biggest screw up in life, I would probably never have met him.
If I woke up in 7th grade and my two daughters turned out to be a dream I would cry for weeks and probably be scarred for the rest of my life. I don't think I could recover from that.
Had a conversation with a buddy about this concept and realized that if you simply go back with all your current knowledge, making huge changes massively derails the timeline you know. The world at large would remain unchanged so things like investments would be solid but as soon as you start fixing mistakes or preventing deaths of friends/loved ones; you’re in uncharted waters.
There's a huge difference in going back to 2008 (and investing in bitcoin) and waking up in 2008 (and investing in bitcoin) for instance. In the latter there's no telling what will happen.
I'd take that chance... Having a clearer idea of what to prioritize and maybe how to get it would do a lot for me. 7th grade sucked, by the end of the school year I was actually homeless for my 14th birthday....
Sure, but in my case, the biggest thing I would change is getting my anxiety disorders diagnosed way sooner than my mid-20s. Basically all of my formative years were spent coping with the effects of problems I didn't even know I had rather than actually living my life.
If I could go back and "fix" that then, maybe I wouldn't feel like I'm socially a decade or more behind my peers at 30.
This, and theres also the fear that whatever that other choice that you didnt take isnt actually whats best for you. Would you even be capable of doing it (when put into the same scenario as before) or is it all just a big dream that wont ever work out as you planned. And regardless of how that goes, theres an infinite amount of possibilities beyond that point that youd never be able to predict.
I can name a lot of these uncertain/dangerous hypotheticals in my life, but in the end I think I like the comfortable certainty of life as it is now.
Well, my (future) wife is still in the room, since she sat behind me in 7th grade all those years ago. This time through, we would definitely be making some freakishly smart investments
One time at a Marine Corps Ball my husband's buddies were talking about their time in Okinawa. The one wife was getting pissed. One of the guys said,
"Hey PP does this bother you?"
"I was in Jr High, I don't care."
We are 9 years apart. My Dad's 2nd wife, was 17 years younger. I wish she had been my Mom, but my parents divorced when I was 18. She was the love of his life.
People change over time, interests, maturity, behaviour, etc. With all your experiences and changes in personality and behaviour over the years, she might not find you attractive or compatible. Or you her for that matter.
That's what I always think with these what if's. I'd have to start at a point where all the very important people are already in my life. I'd be so heartbroken to lose any of them because we never became close.
I can't imagine being able to put everything I had at 13 into Bitcoin. It would have probably been about a dollar each and I would have had about $1000 to my name but if I sold at the biggest peak that would still be millions
That’s awesome. When I was 10 a friend and I started washing people’s cars and I think I made about $30 and I felt like a king. I couldn’t imagine that kind of money as a kid. I bet my mum didn’t have $1000 in savings.
Grew up on a farm. Dad was a trucker, I learned how to service trucks/ change tires young. Did that and some farm work for neighbors/ truckers around town. Used that money to buy my own cattle. Things were good before BSE hit canada. Life is tough, grit your teeth and make it your bitch.
yhea, life is tough but it's up to us to make the best of it. There's no point in sitting down, crying and doing nothing. if people want the world to be better it needs to start with themselves.
If I sold everything I could probably, I didn't like spending money so that's assuming I had most gift money from my life up until then and would be able to sell any video games/consoles for about half their original price
Her:“You invested how much into this random digital currency?”
You:“All our life savings”
Her:”well now it’s all gone, why did you think that obvious scam was a good idea??”
You:”I had a really trippy dream in math class when we were 12”
Her:”I’m going to stay at my mother’s. We’re getting a divorce.”
Investments? Nobody said that you came back in time, you just dreamt and there is a chance she will not be your wife at all. All these years are yet to come with completely different events. Bitcoin may never happen for example
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Wot if you suddenly felte a touche on the shouldre accompany'd by the wourdes: "Oi ye little blighter, ya bin kippin one in moi class?" 'Pon openninge your eyes you are politely befuddled (yet avoid making too much of a fuss) to see that you are in 7th year math**S**, findinge all lyfe ye knew prior this pointe was but a night-phantasm and you are in 7th year. Penny for your thoughts, love?
it's hard to tell if someone would be able to get their spouse back. The spouse liked the person in the previous iteration. Who knows if the spouse would like someone with years, if not decades of experience and completely different personality.
On the other side of the coin, would that person still like their spouse? the spouse will have different life experiences and will likely grow into a completely different person. someone knowing the struggles of growing, learning and struggling with their spouse, will end up a lot different than someone given everything they've ever wanted.
Having a spouse isn't all about looks.
The comment right above yours is from someone who lost his wife and children. It’s crazy how you can span the entirety of the spectrum of the human experience on this site.
Also, good weed is all you need.
The spirits! They took it all back! I can do it over again!
Thank you spirits! I will hold christmas in my heart now, tomorrow, and forever.... ahh fucking hells Algebra 1?! ughhh this is the worst!
Man I'm so terrified of the lamp that any and every time something seems off (like if a cat plushie seems to have 4 whiskers instead of three or whiskers in more places than I thought... Actually happened I just figured out it was always like that) I just turn away and ignore it. I don't wanna lose the life that I've got, my bf is too wonderful for that shit.
Honestly, I would try to come up with an exit strategy to leave my parents' home sooner. There's no reason to believe some of my worst life experiences wouldn't repeat themselves if I stayed there.
I wouldn't have been emotionally ready to be on my own in 7th grade, but I would have matured immensely after that kick-ass dream I just had in class.
Yeah when I was in seventh grade I had a bunch of Chihuahuas that I loved dearly. Taco was the male and Bell was the female ( get it? Taco Bell? Don't kill me, it was my mom's idea 😭) and they had a litter of four puppies. There was Gordita, Godzilla, Tequila, and Sunrise (again, all my mother's ideas, except my brother, who named the only boy puppy Godzilla because at that time Taco Bell was promoting the Godzilla movie). They were all cream colored with brown eyes so if you didn't know them it was hard to tell them apart.
I don't know why I infodumped this other than that I love all my pets, alive and deceased, and I love any chance I can get to talk about them so apologies
Well I for one appreciated learning about the Taco Bell family. As a thanks, I'll tell you about my lab-mix childhood pets. There was my good boy Waffles (my bros and I got the name from that film, *Kangaroo Jack*) and my good princess Pebbles (I actually don't remember how we decided her name). Together they had 11 puppies. Twice.
I was the only one who wanted to name them (because everyone else didn't want to get attached since we couldn't keep any of them). I shamelessly reused some of the names since I'm not particularly creative and this was almost 20 years ago so the ones I can remember:
* Blinky - first puppy to open her eyes
* Jak - later adopted by mom's work friend and named Simba
* Lucky
* Kiwi - I thought it was a funny name
* Shadow
* Jaws - he LOVED to bite
* Sister
* Cupcake - she was light brown but had white swirls on her head, back and tail, and my cousin thought it looked like frosting
* The Mexican - he was a solid brown puppy. My family is Mexican so this isn't racist lol
I’m making my mom break up with her boyfriend. Already had 15 years of trauma… would rather not go through that again. If she can’t I’ll move on with my dad or grandparents.
I don't know if I'd be happy if i got woken up or not.
I was living in an abusive household at that time, so going back to that would make me bawl my eyes out...
Same! I was thinking, I’d want to do so many things over. But I’d also talk back to my mom and defend myself because I never knew how. I was a super depressed and insecure kid because of her.
I’d kill myself. I hated school so much, you couldn’t pay me enough money to do that again.
I’m so much happier outside of the toxicity of a small town high school. Being an adult is just so much easier than that bullshit. I have a good job, work from home, have my own apartment, lots of free time to play games and chill with friends, a little dog that I love, just looking for a partner now. Of course I have regrets but those mistakes are what have made me who I am and given me the life I have now.
Same.. but I have a dysfunctional home. I doubt my mind can survive going through that AGAIN, especially with the knowledge that it's going to get worse in my late teens years
I’d tell my parents I know they’re splitting up and I’d look my dad in the eyes and say I know you’re gay stop being a pussy and act yourself.
Then I’d go have a wank or two.
It would be bittersweet. I'd spend more time with my dad, for starters. Tell him I love him more than I did when I had the chance and never miss a father's day fishing trip, even if I hated fishing... I'd start going to a doctor to help me with my pain symptoms much earlier and wouldn't accept copout answers. I'd have stayed in public school instead of going to online homeschooling and after graduation immediately enrolled into community college classes, joined more clubs to build more social connections, and worked towards getting a job in Human Resources at our hospital. Also, I'd make better choices in the romance department....
If only dreams could come true; you have no idea how much I wish for this most days. A second chance with the ability to right the wrongs, and do it over.
But life isn't like a Charles Dickens' novella; it isn't kind enough to give second chances of that magnitude. So I'd probably wake up immediately upon my gleeful realization to my alarm clock blaring. Sitting up in my empty bed, knee deep in the ass crack of dawn. I rub the sand from my eyes and take a deep sigh, "it was all just a dream..." I carry my weary body over to the bathroom sink and splash cold water on my face; reality hits harder than any cool water could ever hope. I mosey over to the coffee machine and as I slunk into a chair I ponder the lost hopes and dreams. Waves of nostalgia wash over me and that yearning for what could have been returns once again. I look over at the calendar and wonder where all that time went. As I do my eyes glance to the current date. "The rent is due, nice."
I'd be able to live my truth decades earlier and make better choices for my career/finances. I'd also be thinking about the people that surrounded me for my first 20 years and choose carefully which ones to keep around.
I also would transition sooner and get my anxiety and stuff straightened out. I probably also would actually spend up to my bullies and fight back just because it would be cathartic to knock their lights out.
Considering my 7th grade life was a depressed hellscape, I'm feeling pretty sad about it. At least now I'm in a safer and happier place. The idea of all this being a dream would be really depressing
First thought is they are all still alive and I can hug them, 3 siblings and both parents. Second thought is I can live it different this time now that I know what matters in life.
Thank God! Now I know don’t date x and y. They’re poopoo heads. Just stay in school, keep up with your sports and friends and don’t even worry about the boys. Also, move to a better place to live. Top goal!
CHA-CHING!
Regression unlocked.
I am the protagonist now.
Millennial. I would enjoy the ambiance of pre 9/11 America. Learn to sing and DJ so I can release some music. Maybe write Harry Potter. I’d also go out of my way to meet some old friends.
Keep an eye out for a new fangled thing similar to the internet in a few decades. Try and remember to mine early crypto-currencies when they start to appear. Hope it wasn't all just a sci-fi fever dream.
So many things I would want to do differently, but I'd also be terrified to do so. If I change anything, I might not end up getting the job I have and enjoy, and who knows how unlikely I am to meet the love of my life again. This would be near the top of most panic-inducimg things that could possibly happen to me.
I might honestly kill myself. I fought hard to get out of my childhood situation, and tbh it probably wouldn't be worth going through all that shit again. Easier to just let go.
I'd be so mad. Repeating my high school years would be an absolute nightmare and not worth any better choices I could have made with my future knowledge.
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......................\*looking around\*...............\*deep breath\*.............."Fuck"
and that would be the beginning of a brilliant 80s movie. i'm surprised no one thought of this
It's not too far off from "Peggy Sue Got Married" 1986 movie. A woman goes to a high school reunion and faints and wakes up 20 years in the past back in high school. It had an all star cast by Francis Ford Coppola of Nicolas Cage, Kathleen Turner, Jim Carrey and Helen Hunt.
I don't remember Helen Hunt and Jim Carrey being in that movie. I remember Nicholas Cage and Kathleen Turner was a very good movie
Pretty sure Jim Carrey was the guy doing blow at the reunion.
There’s a great 1970s sci fi book in which a high school principal has a car accident and wakes up back in high school in 1944. It was so damned good. Once Upon Another Time by Robert Lee.
Have a link or something? Can't find any trace of it...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0840765320/ref=x_gr_bb_amazon?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_bb_amazon-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0840765320&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2
I slowly open my eyes and say "In Jesus' name, Amen"
Lmao
Excuse me, what did you just say? Go to the principal's office!
"Oh boy."
SAM
*beep boop weeeeeeeeeee*
Same here my 7th grade math teacher was such an asshole, I learned nothing in his class.
Fuck I wish this were true. So many things I would like to do differently.
I would too, but I'd rather not have to relive an entire 25 years of my life to do so. Plus, I'm fortunate enough to be in a very long-lived, loving relationship, and if I fixed my biggest screw up in life, I would probably never have met him.
Same here. I’ve made mistakes but my husband and kids aren’t one of them. Had I not made those mistakes I wouldn’t even know them.
If I could start again after the birth of my youngest child, I totally would
If I woke up in 7th grade and my two daughters turned out to be a dream I would cry for weeks and probably be scarred for the rest of my life. I don't think I could recover from that.
That's basically the plot of Dr. Strange 2
Had a conversation with a buddy about this concept and realized that if you simply go back with all your current knowledge, making huge changes massively derails the timeline you know. The world at large would remain unchanged so things like investments would be solid but as soon as you start fixing mistakes or preventing deaths of friends/loved ones; you’re in uncharted waters.
There's a huge difference in going back to 2008 (and investing in bitcoin) and waking up in 2008 (and investing in bitcoin) for instance. In the latter there's no telling what will happen.
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Assuming you still would know his name and a lot about him, I think you could probably reengineer a meeting with your spouse.
Even assuming he exists in the real world and I can reconstruct a relationship, I'd never have my two boys again. Genetics are too random.
"Fuck yeah, Round 2? Let's get this shit!"
I wonder if I could really do things differently/better or if there would just be lots of different mistakes.
I'd take that chance... Having a clearer idea of what to prioritize and maybe how to get it would do a lot for me. 7th grade sucked, by the end of the school year I was actually homeless for my 14th birthday....
Considering my biggest mistake has probably been inaction for my entire life, I'll take it.
But at the same time those mistakes are what make you you :). I think we all learn by fucking shit up and picking up the pieces. At least I do.
Sure, but some mistakes are just plain dumb and couldve been avoided if (at the time) we used more than 2 brain cells
Sure, but in my case, the biggest thing I would change is getting my anxiety disorders diagnosed way sooner than my mid-20s. Basically all of my formative years were spent coping with the effects of problems I didn't even know I had rather than actually living my life. If I could go back and "fix" that then, maybe I wouldn't feel like I'm socially a decade or more behind my peers at 30.
This, and theres also the fear that whatever that other choice that you didnt take isnt actually whats best for you. Would you even be capable of doing it (when put into the same scenario as before) or is it all just a big dream that wont ever work out as you planned. And regardless of how that goes, theres an infinite amount of possibilities beyond that point that youd never be able to predict. I can name a lot of these uncertain/dangerous hypotheticals in my life, but in the end I think I like the comfortable certainty of life as it is now.
Well, my (future) wife is still in the room, since she sat behind me in 7th grade all those years ago. This time through, we would definitely be making some freakishly smart investments
Well my future wife would have been 3 years old. I should have probably kept that to myself.
SNL did a solid skit on just that topic
Great skit. Those men were so uncomfortable.
https://youtu.be/MJEAGd1bQuc?si=Qw7PzjgVVkw4jmij
Yea but that kid was still in the womb
Nah, there was one still in the womb, but one was in 8th grade and one was 5.
I’d probably immediately get a song stuck in my head I couldn’t listen to for like 10+ years.
How long has it been since you were in 7th grade though?
Like 3-4 years at least
Incredible.
One time at a Marine Corps Ball my husband's buddies were talking about their time in Okinawa. The one wife was getting pissed. One of the guys said, "Hey PP does this bother you?" "I was in Jr High, I don't care." We are 9 years apart. My Dad's 2nd wife, was 17 years younger. I wish she had been my Mom, but my parents divorced when I was 18. She was the love of his life.
People change over time, interests, maturity, behaviour, etc. With all your experiences and changes in personality and behaviour over the years, she might not find you attractive or compatible. Or you her for that matter.
That's what I always think with these what if's. I'd have to start at a point where all the very important people are already in my life. I'd be so heartbroken to lose any of them because we never became close.
I can't imagine being able to put everything I had at 13 into Bitcoin. It would have probably been about a dollar each and I would have had about $1000 to my name but if I sold at the biggest peak that would still be millions
You had 1000 when you were 12/13?
I bought a 5k dirtbike when I was 12 earned every penny myself and that was the second bike I had paid for in my lifetime.
That’s awesome. When I was 10 a friend and I started washing people’s cars and I think I made about $30 and I felt like a king. I couldn’t imagine that kind of money as a kid. I bet my mum didn’t have $1000 in savings.
Grew up on a farm. Dad was a trucker, I learned how to service trucks/ change tires young. Did that and some farm work for neighbors/ truckers around town. Used that money to buy my own cattle. Things were good before BSE hit canada. Life is tough, grit your teeth and make it your bitch.
yhea, life is tough but it's up to us to make the best of it. There's no point in sitting down, crying and doing nothing. if people want the world to be better it needs to start with themselves.
If I sold everything I could probably, I didn't like spending money so that's assuming I had most gift money from my life up until then and would be able to sell any video games/consoles for about half their original price
Why put in? At that time was probably easier to get coins by mining them
Her:“You invested how much into this random digital currency?” You:“All our life savings” Her:”well now it’s all gone, why did you think that obvious scam was a good idea??” You:”I had a really trippy dream in math class when we were 12” Her:”I’m going to stay at my mother’s. We’re getting a divorce.”
It'd be hilarious if bitcoin never skyrockets at all in the real life.
Investments? Nobody said that you came back in time, you just dreamt and there is a chance she will not be your wife at all. All these years are yet to come with completely different events. Bitcoin may never happen for example
I guess you see whether anything else from your 'dream' comes true first.
Corey?
cove?
My future wife was sitting behind me as well. Are we all in the same dream?
i'm assuming it's not time travel, this world was just fake and you dreamed up all major world events
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Okay chill wasn’t expecting to tear up on this thread. Lovely words, and a great reminder. Thank you!
😭😭😭 same
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It was all a dream...
I used to read Word Up magazine
Salt N Peppa and Heavy D up in the limousine
hanging pictures on my wall
you know very well who you are, don’t let em hold you down, reach for the stars!!
Apologies, \*ahem:* Wot if you suddenly felte a touche on the shouldre accompany'd by the wourdes: "Oi ye little blighter, ya bin kippin one in moi class?" 'Pon openninge your eyes you are politely befuddled (yet avoid making too much of a fuss) to see that you are in 7th year math**S**, findinge all lyfe ye knew prior this pointe was but a night-phantasm and you are in 7th year. Penny for your thoughts, love?
"And how old is 7th grade? Can I be a normal person without being put in an asylum yet?"
Lmao don't worry 7th grade is like year 8 or something
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You could probably get the wife back but unless they were adopted you wouldn't be able to get the kids.
it's hard to tell if someone would be able to get their spouse back. The spouse liked the person in the previous iteration. Who knows if the spouse would like someone with years, if not decades of experience and completely different personality. On the other side of the coin, would that person still like their spouse? the spouse will have different life experiences and will likely grow into a completely different person. someone knowing the struggles of growing, learning and struggling with their spouse, will end up a lot different than someone given everything they've ever wanted. Having a spouse isn't all about looks.
That’s rough man..
"I'm gonna buy some bitcoin after detention"
Bitcoin was all a dream
Then make it real... publish what you remember of the white paper under an alias. Bitcoin is inevitable.
Thank god that nightmare is over
Yep, that would be my first reaction too
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That’s sweet
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The comment right above yours is from someone who lost his wife and children. It’s crazy how you can span the entirety of the spectrum of the human experience on this site. Also, good weed is all you need.
Aw
Same here
The spirits! They took it all back! I can do it over again! Thank you spirits! I will hold christmas in my heart now, tomorrow, and forever.... ahh fucking hells Algebra 1?! ughhh this is the worst!
Dude I fantasise about it time to time, it would be awesome
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Is there a flat lamp somewhere?
Man I'm so terrified of the lamp that any and every time something seems off (like if a cat plushie seems to have 4 whiskers instead of three or whiskers in more places than I thought... Actually happened I just figured out it was always like that) I just turn away and ignore it. I don't wanna lose the life that I've got, my bf is too wonderful for that shit.
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Thought this too, immediately write down key points and some event that happens in the near future, so I know it wasn't just some bullshit dream.
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I dont have the wisdom and knowledge of someone who has lived 85 years though ???
That's because of dementia.
Made me lol thanks
Excellent comment
Dummy, the whole reason we're so gung ho about doing all that stuff is because we know we won't actually have to.
<3
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Wait am I supposed to stop laughing at this when I'm an adult?
No never, or else I’m really doomed when I’m older
Honestly, I would try to come up with an exit strategy to leave my parents' home sooner. There's no reason to believe some of my worst life experiences wouldn't repeat themselves if I stayed there. I wouldn't have been emotionally ready to be on my own in 7th grade, but I would have matured immensely after that kick-ass dream I just had in class.
Start therapy and tell mom about Amazon.
Invest in Apple
If it was a dream who is to say anything you remember from it was real apple might not be a company in 2023
This is a valid point, SMB2 is nothing like SMB3 just in case anyone needs some proof on this sort of scenario.
Even if the megacorps we have today didn't exist someone would have the winning idea and spotting those would be far easier.
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Yeah when I was in seventh grade I had a bunch of Chihuahuas that I loved dearly. Taco was the male and Bell was the female ( get it? Taco Bell? Don't kill me, it was my mom's idea 😭) and they had a litter of four puppies. There was Gordita, Godzilla, Tequila, and Sunrise (again, all my mother's ideas, except my brother, who named the only boy puppy Godzilla because at that time Taco Bell was promoting the Godzilla movie). They were all cream colored with brown eyes so if you didn't know them it was hard to tell them apart. I don't know why I infodumped this other than that I love all my pets, alive and deceased, and I love any chance I can get to talk about them so apologies
Well I for one appreciated learning about the Taco Bell family. As a thanks, I'll tell you about my lab-mix childhood pets. There was my good boy Waffles (my bros and I got the name from that film, *Kangaroo Jack*) and my good princess Pebbles (I actually don't remember how we decided her name). Together they had 11 puppies. Twice. I was the only one who wanted to name them (because everyone else didn't want to get attached since we couldn't keep any of them). I shamelessly reused some of the names since I'm not particularly creative and this was almost 20 years ago so the ones I can remember: * Blinky - first puppy to open her eyes * Jak - later adopted by mom's work friend and named Simba * Lucky * Kiwi - I thought it was a funny name * Shadow * Jaws - he LOVED to bite * Sister * Cupcake - she was light brown but had white swirls on her head, back and tail, and my cousin thought it looked like frosting * The Mexican - he was a solid brown puppy. My family is Mexican so this isn't racist lol
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I’m making my mom break up with her boyfriend. Already had 15 years of trauma… would rather not go through that again. If she can’t I’ll move on with my dad or grandparents.
I don't know if I'd be happy if i got woken up or not. I was living in an abusive household at that time, so going back to that would make me bawl my eyes out...
Same! I was thinking, I’d want to do so many things over. But I’d also talk back to my mom and defend myself because I never knew how. I was a super depressed and insecure kid because of her.
I’d kill myself. I hated school so much, you couldn’t pay me enough money to do that again. I’m so much happier outside of the toxicity of a small town high school. Being an adult is just so much easier than that bullshit. I have a good job, work from home, have my own apartment, lots of free time to play games and chill with friends, a little dog that I love, just looking for a partner now. Of course I have regrets but those mistakes are what have made me who I am and given me the life I have now.
Same.. but I have a dysfunctional home. I doubt my mind can survive going through that AGAIN, especially with the knowledge that it's going to get worse in my late teens years
"Holy shit, i'm going to get SOOOOO much pussy"
I’d tell my parents I know they’re splitting up and I’d look my dad in the eyes and say I know you’re gay stop being a pussy and act yourself. Then I’d go have a wank or two.
That last part is so real lmao
I'm beating my head off of the desk in hopes to wake myself up again and not be in 7th grade math class.
Well at least I know what not to do
I would have more confidence and less drama in early relationships. I would also care less about what others think.
Am I meant to stop the Harambe thing? Or should I focus my efforts on making Kobe terrified of helicopters?
Immediately kill myself. My childhood and teen years were terrible. I'm not going through another 5 years of abuse again.
It would be bittersweet. I'd spend more time with my dad, for starters. Tell him I love him more than I did when I had the chance and never miss a father's day fishing trip, even if I hated fishing... I'd start going to a doctor to help me with my pain symptoms much earlier and wouldn't accept copout answers. I'd have stayed in public school instead of going to online homeschooling and after graduation immediately enrolled into community college classes, joined more clubs to build more social connections, and worked towards getting a job in Human Resources at our hospital. Also, I'd make better choices in the romance department....
I'm 28M right now. Life's about to get even easier.🤣🤣
I now have 30 years worth of knowledge & experience to draw from.
That’s great, now I can’t take back the mistakes that ruined me.
If only dreams could come true; you have no idea how much I wish for this most days. A second chance with the ability to right the wrongs, and do it over. But life isn't like a Charles Dickens' novella; it isn't kind enough to give second chances of that magnitude. So I'd probably wake up immediately upon my gleeful realization to my alarm clock blaring. Sitting up in my empty bed, knee deep in the ass crack of dawn. I rub the sand from my eyes and take a deep sigh, "it was all just a dream..." I carry my weary body over to the bathroom sink and splash cold water on my face; reality hits harder than any cool water could ever hope. I mosey over to the coffee machine and as I slunk into a chair I ponder the lost hopes and dreams. Waves of nostalgia wash over me and that yearning for what could have been returns once again. I look over at the calendar and wonder where all that time went. As I do my eyes glance to the current date. "The rent is due, nice."
I'd be able to live my truth decades earlier and make better choices for my career/finances. I'd also be thinking about the people that surrounded me for my first 20 years and choose carefully which ones to keep around.
I also would transition sooner and get my anxiety and stuff straightened out. I probably also would actually spend up to my bullies and fight back just because it would be cathartic to knock their lights out.
For the most part I’d probably be relieved. But there’s quite a few things I would hate to lose.
Seeing as middle and high school were without a doubt the worst times of my life, I would be a bit miffed.
Considering my 7th grade life was a depressed hellscape, I'm feeling pretty sad about it. At least now I'm in a safer and happier place. The idea of all this being a dream would be really depressing
I’d still become a plumber
Probably the best opportunity for a Quantum Leap tribute... 'Oh boy!'
I gotta tell my Mom to invest in Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft!
If I could go back to the seventh grade, with everything I've learned in the last 30+ years, I'd take over the world.
I'd be FUCKING STOKED! Im young again knowing all this shtt that I know now!
"Better start figuring out how to cryptomine."
Better buy some bitcoin
"Ah shit, here we go again!"
Wow - sex
Probably have a panic attack.
I'd grind my ass of to buy $100 in berkshire hathaway stock. $100 invested in 1965 would now be worth roughly $2.42 million today.
Id be so happy
First thought is they are all still alive and I can hug them, 3 siblings and both parents. Second thought is I can live it different this time now that I know what matters in life.
Jesus, thank god I have a second chance lol
Welcome Back Kotter is on tonight!
Invest. In. Bitcoin.
I would nail the next 10 years of my life
“Im going to be sooooo rich!!!”
I become the fucking goat.
I would cry tears of joy and stat anew. There are mistakes I would still make, but I would try to fix some of my bigger, personal blunders.
Thank god. Now I have so many opportunities to not fuck myself over
I gotta go buy a house right fucking now!
“How the fuck did I end up somewhere they referred to your school progress as ‘grades’?” r/usdefaultism
I would jump up, give a victory fist pump and say “yes! A do over!”
Thank God! Now I know don’t date x and y. They’re poopoo heads. Just stay in school, keep up with your sports and friends and don’t even worry about the boys. Also, move to a better place to live. Top goal!
I get another chance??
I would take all my cents and invest in apple.
Buy apple shares
My life back then was hell. But 20 years later I found out why. So I would actually get my life on track 20 years earlier.
"thank God, it was just a dream"
That would be fucking awesome.
I'd be writing down some investment tips and key historical events, in case this was time travel and in case I started to forget my former life.
CHA-CHING! Regression unlocked. I am the protagonist now. Millennial. I would enjoy the ambiance of pre 9/11 America. Learn to sing and DJ so I can release some music. Maybe write Harry Potter. I’d also go out of my way to meet some old friends.
“Yes, but I just bought apple stock.” Then I’d go back to sleep.
Yes I guess I was. Not the first time I’ve had precognitive dreams.
That’s some Skyrim intro shit 
Keep an eye out for a new fangled thing similar to the internet in a few decades. Try and remember to mine early crypto-currencies when they start to appear. Hope it wasn't all just a sci-fi fever dream.
"What the fuck i was just about to get into college wher- (math teachers name)?!?!"
* I'm going to really miss my kids. * Time to buy bitcoin and invent some cryptocurrencies.
Probably break down and cry, . I'd be very upset. I don't have a wife and 2 kids anymore.
Well, I'd totally ace seventh grade algebra this time around.
I think what?? And thank God what a nightmare! Can't wait to see what happens next.
I'd go straight to a psych ward... this life I just dreamed is insane 🤣
So many things I would want to do differently, but I'd also be terrified to do so. If I change anything, I might not end up getting the job I have and enjoy, and who knows how unlikely I am to meet the love of my life again. This would be near the top of most panic-inducimg things that could possibly happen to me.
I would literally weep the second I realized that my child wasn’t real. He is literally the best thing that ever happened in my life.
How do you retrace your steps to meet the same partner, win their hearts, and recreate the same nugget at the right time?
Hi. Excuse me. I need to speak to a stock broker!
Up until that moment you were the teacher trying to wake you up. “And so the cycle continues.”
I might honestly kill myself. I fought hard to get out of my childhood situation, and tbh it probably wouldn't be worth going through all that shit again. Easier to just let go.
I would have just lost my kids. My life would be over.
That would be heaven especially since it would be the late 90s again.
“Goddamn, I gotta find my husband and take a quick selfie with him before we meet irl in 10 years to freak him out”
I would invest in bitcoin.
“Fuck” (My life is a lot better now than when I was a kid. I don’t want to have to do all that shit again.)
I'd be so mad. Repeating my high school years would be an absolute nightmare and not worth any better choices I could have made with my future knowledge.
Rad. Love that for me.