When would you go if you could go back in time?
 

We've already had many discussions about time travel, so please disregard the mechanics of time travel. If you could go back in time to another point in your life, when would you go? You would replace your past self's consciousness in that time's physical body with what you know now and who you are now. There is no coming back to the "present" since for all intents and purposes that is a divergent future to which you would have to do everything exactly the same to get there. No preparation may be made (i.e. you cannot get on the internet and memorize the sports champions of the past decade nor may you say goodbye to your loved ones. You must decide within the next five minutes and the choice is irreversible. At what part in your life do you go?

This is essentially a redo in your life. I'm not entirely sure I would take this opportunity other than go back a year ago and bet on Appalachian State and the New York Giants and make some money. Other than that, I'm really happy how my life turned out.

I would stay where I am at.

I'd go back to the day I met my wife so I could run the other direction.

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I'd go back to when I was about 15 or 16, and then just freeze time right there.

Probably back to grade 8. Not that I'm necessarily not happy with how life has turned out and the trials experienced are necessary and valuable, but it'd be nice to try a few different twists and turns going in with a bit of extra foresight.

I'd go back about 21 days and ask that my Dad request all kinds of extra tests on his heart and arteries during his doctor visit.

Thinking about my response, I wouldn't go back unless I could take a bunch of stuff that I have now (wife, friends, Plasma TV) back with me. So in retrospect, I'd rather it be now.

this would be a cooler thread if it wasn't "in my life"

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Probably the start of 9th grade. I'd play tennis all 4 years instead of the 1 I did since that was the sport I liked playing the most. I'd probably play football all 4 years too. And I'd also study my ass off instead of slacking off and coasting through school.

a lifetime of angst and acne. SIGN ME UP!!

get my Jeep back :(

Probably 6 months. It'd be boring to do it all again, but I could accomplish the following things:

1. Be set for life financially through sports betting
2. Really kick ass right off the bat in the job I started this year. (if I still wanted to work here with all that money from sports betting)
3. Establish myself as the smartest poster in FOFC history.

I would go back to February 2007 and decide to not take my wife to Blue man group for valentine's day in stupid 10 degree weather with high winds (after which she developed pneumonia)

Going back knowing everything I know now?


Age 5.

My life would be entirely different. But the first 30 years worth would have been a LOT happier.


I've finally found the good life, but man, with the opportunity to go back and make decisions differently? yeah, almost all the way. besides, I'd be the smartest 5 yr old in the world.

I would have had my coach pick tails on the coin flip that kept us out of the playoffs my senior year.

Still take Mindy out that night, though.

I would go back and post something on Sportsdigs before it was posted here.

Way to break the fucking space-time continuum, biscuit head!

I would go back to last August and throw all my money on the Giants beating the Pats in the Superbowl.

I'd go back to May of 1977.

Grade 10, maybe starting grade 11 ... knowing what I now know.

Hmmm.

I relatively happy where I am now. Having said that, it'd be nice to meet my dad before he died, but that'd mean I'd be 2 years old, and I don't know that I really want to live my entire life again knowing what I now know... can you imagine having to go to kindergarten and colour in between the lines again?

I'd go back to mid-83 to mid-84, the best year of my life. It was when I took a year off between undergrad and grad school. Went skiing in Utah for the first time, beachcombed down in Baja, snorkled in Catalina, went to Disneyland several times, worked at a bbcard shop in my spare time, went to several concerts/movies/ballgames, vacationed in Colorado for the first time, took a road/bus trip through all of the western states and went to the beach about a million times, all the while working at an easy, fun, well-paying career-oriented job in San Diego.

I would go back to the Summer of '69. Oh, wait. I wasn't born yet. Hmmm. Wonder what THAT would be like. Would that fuck up my future if I was around before being born? Meh, I just want to meet that chick on her daddy's porch.

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I'd go back to the summer before my freshman year of high school and start it all over again.

There's no way in hell I'd go through middle school again.

Not falling for this one...I've seen the Butterfly Effect.

I would not have brought a box of wine and a razor to Fritz' apartment that one time.

Loved that movie.

I'd go way back...probably to when I was 5 or 6. I'd have a long talk with my mom about moving me out of state where I have no family and then taking off wouldn't really be all that cool....and how maybe that particular move might fuck up our relationship for the rest of our lives.

Ya know, thinking about it more, I'd love to go back to when I was about 15 and take my basketball a LOT more seriously. I completely wasted my talent at that age by skipping training, not showing up to basketball camps, etc., and I regret it now.

Exactly the same for me. I'd go back even a year earlier, at 14, to take basketball and, most important, school way more seriously than what I did.

I'd also go back to probably the Summer before high school. I'd take football a ton more seriously, plus I wouldn't have wasted all that time with that bitch of a girlfriend I had through most of high school and on into college. I'd still want to end up with my wife, but man, that time-saver alone would be worth it.

I'd go back to my junior year of college and not have dated the young lady I was with. I missed out on so much ass because of her. What happens next, we break up a year after I graduate. What a waste of time.