Do not ask the eagle to not soar.
Having a HIPSTER BEARD and a MACBOOK does not make you futuristic.
Prepare to be time-stomped by me, Time Marine. HOO-RAH.
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Do not ask the eagle to not soar.
Having a HIPSTER BEARD and a MACBOOK does not make you futuristic.
Prepare to be time-stomped by me, Time Marine. HOO-RAH.
I would've pushed even harder to go to public school, where I could've gotten an education, and not just book-smarts. I think I'll forever hate my parents for sending me to private school.
...and I'll probably never tell them either.
...and I'll probably never tell them either.
My beard has DISEASES. There's nothing hip about it unless Herpes and lice are the "in" thing nowadays. If I could change anything about my life, it would be allowing you to exist. I revoke my permission!
You should go back in time and fix that beard out, my boy. And also go back to pagan times to learn the mystical secrets of how to actually build a proper RAID5 server.
Retroactive abortion! That's what we need to deal with the likes of you. And I see your RAID 5 and raise you one! RAID 6!
I know how you feel. I can mentally determine if a number is prime but I never learned how to love. I never realised the joy of sunshine on my face.
I'd go back to 1988 and not get into the fight that resulted in my front teeth getting broken, which has so far cost around £2-3k in dental bills. Wouldn't change much else though. I was a pretty crappy person until a bunch of bad experiences caused me to take a damn good look at myself, so I think the events in our lives make us as people however bad they are at the time.
i would go back all the way and correct each mistake i made especially letting my soulmate slip away..at that time i didn't know she was it as i was playing the field.haha stupid me. as time passes my heart breaks and breaks. i'm sad!
this question makes me angry! just kidding!hehe
this question makes me angry! just kidding!hehe 
In 1999 I ate a horrible vegi sandwhich that had me for three days...In those three days I missed a lot of happenings.
It always seem that good stuff happens around you when you are sick
Bless
It always seem that good stuff happens around you when you are sick
Bless
Oh livingfortoday you know that you are a hologram from a bad buck rodgers ripoff. Time has no meaning for you!!!
As for me I miss the mid to late 90's. I would definitely load up on apple stock back then. Everything seemed more interesting, but maybe I just remember only the good. The now is kicking ass, so I'll just stay here.
As for me I miss the mid to late 90's. I would definitely load up on apple stock back then. Everything seemed more interesting, but maybe I just remember only the good. The now is kicking ass, so I'll just stay here.
I'm a product of genetics and my history. To go back and change things would be to change me. Thats not to deny that there are decisions in my life that I regret, but those mistakes are part of who I am.
Thanks, but no.
Anyway, part of life is surprise. There's nothing like the first time (first drink, first days work, first meeting your partner, first ***, etc). You can never recapture the first time. If you'd done it all before, going back in time wouldn't be half as much fun as you think it would.
Thanks, but no.
Anyway, part of life is surprise. There's nothing like the first time (first drink, first days work, first meeting your partner, first ***, etc). You can never recapture the first time. If you'd done it all before, going back in time wouldn't be half as much fun as you think it would.
That's difficult, because even some seemingly mundane details can add up to much of what you are today. Because of this fact, I wouldn't change anything.
That is not to say I don't have regrets, as it were.
Generally people are more capable of change and moving FORWARD than many give themselves credit for. Change what you actually can, and all that.
That is not to say I don't have regrets, as it were.
Generally people are more capable of change and moving FORWARD than many give themselves credit for. Change what you actually can, and all that.
Yeah, I was gonna say, if I didn't know that I had started over then I would have done the same dumb stuff I already did.
But, if I go back in time, and I am able to hang out with my friends who are as young as I am, that means that unless they started their lives over as well, the we have paralell universes, which makes the whole deal really confusing.
But when I start my life over, do I die from my old life (the one i'm in now) or do I exist in my new life and in the old one as well? Or does everyone from the old life start their lives over too? Very confusing indeed
Okay, so we go back in time to fix something.
But aren't we the person we are today based upon our experiences, good or bad? So if we fix something we perceive as bad, aren't we then removing the learning eventhough we remember it. I know I am not explaining this well. But our life paths are a result of our decisions. By going back and making a different decision we affect the path that we ultimately take do we not. So in fixing something we may miss out on other significant things that caused us to grow as humans beings?
But aren't we the person we are today based upon our experiences, good or bad? So if we fix something we perceive as bad, aren't we then removing the learning eventhough we remember it. I know I am not explaining this well. But our life paths are a result of our decisions. By going back and making a different decision we affect the path that we ultimately take do we not. So in fixing something we may miss out on other significant things that caused us to grow as humans beings?
But when I start my life over, do I die from my old life (the one i'm in now) or do I exist in my new life and in the old one as well? Or does everyone from the old life start their lives over too? Very confusing indeed
There's no old life and new life; it's the same life, you're just going back in time.
You'll end up at the same place as where you started, and everything will be the same, except for one single incident that you chose to avoid by going back in time.
If you were playing high school football, and you happened to get your neck broken, you might want to go back in time before that game started and maybe not go to it.
I would like to go about 1997 before I stacked on heaps of weight (which I have lost) and back to around 2000-2001 and have gotten myself a job so it wouldn't be so difficult now
There's no old life and new life; it's the same life, you're just going back in time.
You'll end up at the same place as where you started, and everything will be the same, except for one single incident that you chose to avoid by going back in time.
If you were playing high school football, and you happened to get your neck broken, you might want to go back in time before that game started and maybe not go to it.
But what if not having you neck broken means you're in your car later that night when a drunk driver runs a red light, plows into your car, and kills you and your g/f riding in the passenger seat?
Butterfly effect my friend.
Didn't you ever see that Star Trek episode where Picard goes back in time, decides to NOT get into a bar fight that nearly killed him and instead of becoming Capt he ends up being like 3rd rate science officer? The lessons he learned from that near death experience helped mold him into the type of person that could be a Capt.
Just because you prevent something bad from happening to you doesn't mean that you didn't just set in motion something even worse.
Lethal
I see your point, but given the choice between a broken neck and death, I'd much rather have death.