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Writer's Block: Do-over!
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If those were my options I'd totally give it to a friend, but tbh I'd rather give it to an enemy.
I have no desire to relive childhood, I don't think it could possibly have been made any more pleasant for me but it wasn't something I would voluntarily go back to without some excellent reason, and I don't think I would do any better next time.
If they get a parent swap there are some friends I would happily hand it out to, but if it's just a do-over in general I'd rather give it to someone I didn't like - after all, they might turn out better next time!
(hi guys, it is Procrastination O'Clock here, where I bury my head in the sand and try not to do anything worthwhile for a month or so in order to recharge - I am still available for doing minor useful things but given I now have three Possible Major Projects that people are failing to get back to me about, I don't have any Major Planning Space or amazing reserves of cope right now)
If those were my options I'd totally give it to a friend, but tbh I'd rather give it to an enemy.
I have no desire to relive childhood, I don't think it could possibly have been made any more pleasant for me but it wasn't something I would voluntarily go back to without some excellent reason, and I don't think I would do any better next time.
If they get a parent swap there are some friends I would happily hand it out to, but if it's just a do-over in general I'd rather give it to someone I didn't like - after all, they might turn out better next time!
(hi guys, it is Procrastination O'Clock here, where I bury my head in the sand and try not to do anything worthwhile for a month or so in order to recharge - I am still available for doing minor useful things but given I now have three Possible Major Projects that people are failing to get back to me about, I don't have any Major Planning Space or amazing reserves of cope right now)
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Admittedly you will be trapped inside a child's body for a good long while which might get frustrating and boring but you could spend the time reading or learning skills you didn't have the time to master the first time around.
As you'd be terribly precocious you might be able to get into excellent schools early and minimise boredom.
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Think about it. There's probably a good year or two where you can't focus your eyes or move your hands well enough to consistantly read a book or operate a computer. Your parents and other authority figures are unlikely to understand your precocious behaviour, and will attempt to restrict you to 'age-appropriate' material and interactions.
Excellent schools are difficult to find and even more difficult to have the wherewithal to be accepted at - it's a big geographical, social and economic lottery whether you could get into one.
I'm only just climbing out of the pit where no-one pays attention to me because I don't have the seniority / experience to possibly be right about anything - I don't want to plunge myself back into it again!
There's nothing I desperately want to learn which can be learnt just by reading books or practicing, anyway. Everything I currently want to learn can only really be learnt by getting out there and doing things (management skills, people skills).
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In my case I have a strong relationship with my parents who have treated me with respect since an early age. In many ways I feel less respected now by my peers than I was in school.
With regards to schooling and opportunity: I'm fortunate to come from a very wealthy family and my parents sought my input at many stages on how (and in which country) I should be educated.
It's true ages 0-5 might really suck. If we're allowed to choose how we regain our memories I think getting them back gradually about age 7 or 8 might be the way to go.
After that it's basically a question of whether a life of lesuire and boring routine is a curse or not.
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Of course, if you kept your memories you could do wonders with the opportunities (My first thought being 'I could save my brother', my second being a less selfish '9/11? Arrested before take off'.)
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Some of my friends suffered quite badly from parental abuse / neglect which has left them with lasting problems and so I don't think it would be insulting to hand them a 'try again with a different set of parents' card, though...
As for memory opportunities, it's less great than you think. Especially for something like 9/11, no-one would believe you. What proof do you have?
Most people's memories are actually pretty vague when you come down to it - I don't feel like I could prove I had memories of the future by making a few minor predictions / knowing things which haven't become public yet, and I don't see why anyone would believe me if I started trying to say some things were going to happen / prevent events from taking their course.
About the only thing I might be able to do is make a modest profit on the stock market, and I suspect I would have to do some quite specialised information gathering before activating my going-back-in-time powers to even manage that.
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I would accept a Do Over card with amazing speed - I'd keep a lot of things the same, but there are some major errors I would totally want to fix. Of course the terror would be that in fixing them I would lose the good bits... Hmm... Am suddenly no longer sure.
(It's your fault I signed back on to WoW today. Love, Dhurma the baby cow)
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I'll be online this evening from about 7pm to guildinvite you :).
Three is a _little_ bit of an exaggeration, that's two I'm waiting for further action on and a backup plan if those both don't work out.
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If I found myself _having_ to do-over I would probably change direction entirely (probably doing something like psychology or politics/sociology at university) but I don't know how well that would work out, as I'm not convinced I was mature enough to deal with being in a non-technical field straight out of university...
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"if I made a serious effort to avoid some mistakes then I would just end up falling into different equally bad ones" That's completely the big danger, isn't it... terrifying.