What would you do if you were an 8 year old again, with your current mind (including memories and skills)? (sh.itjust.works)

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Besides the obvious answer of making money, or rather, how would you do it as an 8 year old? What else would you do?

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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

I wouldn't change a thing, otherwise I wouldn't be able to meet my partner.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

[Panics trying to remember every "correct" move since I was 8]

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

Yea, lol. Would be awful!

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Aww that's very sweet. I know exactly where and when I met my partner though, and I could show up to the meeting way better prepared for our life together :)

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Great! For us, so many things had to go right and wrong for us to meet each other at the right place, right time, and right frame of mind. Honestly any slight change could have led us to never meeting or never liking each other.

[-] Buffalobuffalo@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

If we assume I become my 8 year old self and live my life over, this becomes a problem. I love my wife and would not want to risk changing anything so that I meet her. Yet we at and dated at 16… this would be problematic as I would be a 45 year old man in the body of a 16 year old. Creepy factors aside, could I pretend to be what I think 16 year old me was like? And if I did would the relationship not be based on a lie?

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'd say no, not really. It would suck.

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