Childhood vs adulthood.

[The Yen Man]

To be honest, I had a pretty fun time growing up. I'm blessed with a good family and a pretty worry free upbringing.

I definitely miss that feeling of joy on just random little things, like waking up at 8am to watch Saturday morning cartoons while eating cereal. Loved the feeling of summer holidays, when it felt like 2 months lasted forever. I'd spend 2 weeks down in Medicine Hat with my cousins, we'd bike to the convenience store every day for our slurpees, and then go back to his house to play a lot of SNES. Love love those times. Stuff like that.

But sometimes, I wonder if I only fondly remember the good stuff, and forget there were times when it was not great either. Lots of school peer pressure stuff that were probably not the most fun.

If I had to choose, I think going back to my 18-28 year self is the best time. I still think that's the most fun period of my life I wouldn't mind reliving again.

[devo22]

I'd go back for sure. Not having back pain sounds like fun

[KTrain]

Originally Posted by The Yen Man

If I had to choose, I think going back to my 18-28 year self is the best time. I still think that's the most fun period of my life I wouldn't mind reliving again.

If I went back to 18-28, my old self would make that time a lot less fun.

[Sr. Mints]

Complete do-over, no question. I'll take all the bad and awkward parts of childhood.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by KTrain

I'm with most people though that I wouldn't go back and change anything. Especially if you have kids. You have next to zero chance of having the same child if you change even a second of your past so you're basically wiping any child you have out of existence.

Granted I don't have children. But the way some co-workers and the odd friend talk about a certain child, that may be a preferable outcome for some

[Lubicon]

I wouldn't do my entire childhood again but starting in high school maybe. But only if I could have a do-over and change a few things along the way but then I would not meet the same people I know now and probably would not have my family so that's not good. Would love a do-over of my professional life/career, I'm happy with my personal life (family etc).

[Yamer]

The more interesting scenario would be retaining your knowledge/experiences and hitting the reset button for a certain time in your life.

I've actually dedicated more thought to that idea than anyone should, and I still don't really have an answer. It would be great to go back to early high-school or late junior high with the general outlook on life I have now. Not worrying about the silly, inconsequential #### and just live presently. But that also means I would have to re-do University and a lot of other work I put into myself over the years.

As for the original scenario in the OP: status-quo.