I wouldn't want to but if I could I would move away from the city much younger. At birth if I could arrange.
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#23Family and children eliminated thoughts of my “unlived” lives. Life is hard. Focusing on gratitude helps me be thankful for what I have instead of thinking about what may have been.
Never needed that: I like life because I know I will die soon and nothing I do matters. That is the thing I would've liked to know earlier.
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#24I would live life exactly as I've lived it so far. The thought of my kids not existing in an alternate universe is too painful to endure.
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#25What’s that rule about question titles?
No. unless you also change my starting conditions.
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#26There's a great book called Replay that tackles the ground hog day problem but at a life scale. I read it every few years and it always gives me some perspective about what is truly important in life.
https://www.amazon.com/Replay-Ken-Grimwood-ebook/dp/B0F9MY5M...
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#27My life turned out alright. Full of problems, pains and questions like everyone's else's but, in the grand scheme of things, I'm incredibly fortunate given the amount of poverty and misery in this world. I always liked the thought experiment of living my life again. However, I'm much more interested in the thought of living in the future . If I could do it again, I'd take the risk of living 1000 years from now. I kno…
It'd just be the same game in a different environment, with an inventory of items from a different tech tree.
people would still be trying to understand how to upgrade node dependencies
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#28I have always found this question haunting. I would imagine if I had the ability to forever banish a single though from my head, this would be it.
I think it is that the alternate paths are just so easy to romanticize.
I have been doing this lately with how maybe I should have went into the military after high school.
Of course, the romanticized version doesn't include losing a limb in Afghanistan.
It just easy to take the good fortune that did happen for granted.
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#29I think the fantasy of going back hides the reality that new possibilities are always stretched out ahead. I have lived many lives. New careers, new cities, new countries, new friends, new families. By my count I’ve lived 14 iterations of life and counting. New lives are always beckoning. After awhile you get good a recognizing the ones worth stepping into.
> I think the fantasy of going back hides the reality that new possibilities are always stretched out ahead. It also hides the incapability of many to do what they should to succeed. Most people already know what they should do different to succeed without going back in time but still they do not have the will power to do it and they probably would still not have if they had a time machine.
Ironically, I think characterizing life as a question of success-or-not was THE major barrier in my life to finding the contentment I was actually looking for.
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#30Family and children eliminated thoughts of my “unlived” lives. Life is hard. Focusing on gratitude helps me be thankful for what I have instead of thinking about what may have been.
Never needed that: I like life because I know I will die soon and nothing I do matters. That is the thing I would've liked to know earlier.
So, why continue living? The nihilist pit is something I recommend you claw your way out of, ASAP.