If you could live your life over - EXACTLY the same - good and bad

[patricia92243]

would you?

Truthfully, my own answer is no. Too many things I would not want to have to go through again.

[UdoKier]

1. Totally yes.

Mostly it's been good, and I could handle the bad better.

[GOPisEvil]

What has happened previous to now has brought me here.

And truly life is not bad. Who is to say that if things were changed, things might end up being worse?

[skygazer]

2. Absolutely not

The first 38 years were filled with a lot of pain and anguish. I wouldn't change a thing about it, though, because I learned a lot and it brought me to where I am now. The past six years have been the best of my entire life.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

9. Totally with you... except change the 38 to 32 and 6 yrs. to 6 months.

I agree with every word you said.

[Debi]

3. So, I'd make the same stupid mistakes again

and be in the same stupid relationships again?

Hmmm.

I guess, though, that our past experiences make us our present person, so YES...But it would suck!!!

[CaptainCorc]

4. No. Not because my life has been hard....

but because I've lived it so poorly.

[bigwillq]

5. I would

It's been a pretty good life so far.

Of course there were some bad, depressing times but I learned so much from those experiences.

[MuseRider]

No.

It may have brought me to this point but there are too many things I would never want to live through again.

[jedicord]

6. Yeah.

I went through some pretty bad times and made some very bad decisions. But if I had done it differently, I wouldn't have my son. It always comes to that in my head.

Now the question is: No matter when I had my child - would he be the same person?

[flyingfysh]

7. perhaps you have been reading Nietzsche?

Nietzsche had an idea of "eternal recurrence" which went something like this: If some demon were to disclose to you that your life would be endlessly repeated exactly as it has been, would you be able to stand it? Or would you welcome it?

Nietzsche experts could probably add more.

[Book Lover]

8. What would be the point?

No. If I could change the stupid shit I pulled, and if I could warn a few people... then yes, in a heartbeat.

[Misunderestimator]

10. Only if I forgot how it went down the first time...

[CornField]

12. That's my answer as well

Only if I didn't know what was coming... otherwise some points would be unbearable. (Not to mention that I'd try to change outcomes.)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. no

[Rob H.]

13. Not just no, but HELL no

If I couldn't save my late brother (who was killed in a car accident) knowing, in the second go-round, the date, time, and place of his death, I wouldn't be able to live with myself knowing that I could've saved him and didn't.

[mcscajun]

14. I'd sooner fall down a wellhole...

To repeat some of what I've done and seen and suffered through? No thanks.

The good moments would be less wonderful, 'cause I'd know they were coming...but the horrible ones would be more so. The balance would be totally fucked.