actually, ive thoguht abt this now... if i could, then id wouldve changed a few things i did when i was in my "younger" years, eg: 15 onwards... i woulda stayed at school, not got in so much trouble... and then life woulda been alot better than it has been....
yeah i would do one of to weeks the week my dad had his accident and stop that from happening so i could see what my life would be like if he survived or the week with highest lotto win and results for races and stuff like one dude said before
I wouldn't! Like everyone, I can look back on my life, see things I could have done better and see the mistakes that I have made. It might be tempting to go back and "fix" something from the past. However, my parents endowed me with the philosophy of making the most of your current circumstances rather than regretting things or wishing what-ifs. I look back on those adverse times in my life, and realise that many following good times would not have eventuated without the setbacks. I am happy where I am. I would not want to risk losing those good things I have had. All I want to do is make the rest of my life meaningful.
id do it if i could do it in a de-lorian! lol, seriously yeah why not. id so just spend most of my time at the TAB and set myself up for life, then i could afford the best life insurance you could buy and possibly get thet year back! so where do i sign up???
Its interesting to see how some forum members would use such an opportunity. My only interest would be to go back to a very early period in my life to see what life was llike then. Not to change histolry, make a different decision regarding my future or make a killing at the races or TAB (which didn't exist in the 50's anyway). I make the assumption that my last year of life will be affected by ageing and diminishing health, and therefore lwould not be much value lin terms of quality of llife. I'd much rather have the opportunity to experience life as it once was, whilst in good health, than just live for the sake of living. I've seen enough of old age to know it ain't much fun.
Your thread makes for interesting reading. I guess I'm one of those 'live for the now' types. However, I think of my wife's grandfather who is spending the last years of his life in a home suffering from dementia and cancer and I wonder would he go back to any previous time in his life. He fought in New Guinea (the Japanese) and Africa (the Nazis) during WW2and lost a lot of good mates. In my eyes he's an unsung hero and I'd love to give him that sort of present.
Hi Metalfossil The thread was intended to make people think, that's why the condition that you had to forfeit the last year of your life. If you just asked if anybody would like to travel back to a certan period for a week, most would probably say yes, because there was no cost involved. My grandfather fought the japs in New Guniea too, and he passed away in 1966. There are so few members of my family left who are older than me now, and if I could go back to around 1952, they would all still be alive, but much younger than I can remember them. I'm a hopeless sentamentalist and the past probably inerests me more than the future. My mother is in an aged care home and suffers dementia too. Her quality of life is nil. I'm sure that if she could have this sort of opportunity, she would grab it with both hands. As I said in my earlier post, living just for the sake of living is not worth the suffering when you are aged and infirm. Giving up a year of that sort of existence isn't really a sacrifice at all. Regards pj
Of course I would, with a few bits of advice for my fifteen year old self...first, girls will like it if you kiss them "there"...second, don't buy that rusty Mazda as a first car...keep driving the slow old Austin A30 and save up and buy that damn 6 cylinder four door 1957 Chev which was down the road for sale for $3800 and you couldn't afford at the time, buy shares in that new fangled computer company "Apple" and "Microsoft", and if I could take anything back with me as a gift for myself, it would be the last few pages from the calender I have on my wall, which lists all sorts of interesting world facts...including most importantly the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners of every Caufield Cup and Melbourne Cup from the last thirty years...:yeah::w00t: Oh, and I'd also have a quiet word to my old man, and tell him to watch his cholesterol and start having more regular doctors checkups...he might have got another decade or so out of life...:rip:
