10 replies to this topic

[Tortle]

Okay, here's a perfectly random hypothetical scenario... If you could go back in time and relive your childhood, would you? So that the topic doesn't go all over the place, there is one condition: You don't remember anything that has happened to you since then (so there's no "if I knew then what I know now" stuff).

I don't think I would go back. Despite the nostalgia factor, my childhood was somewhat difficult for me, and was filled with anxiety (especially middle school).

-Nathan

[Warsman]

if i could go back into the day and not grow up on todays soceity
i'm not sure.

my father was a drunk , and my parents always had troubles with money.
but my grandfather and grandmother were the best , i remember alot of good things with them.

They always got me muscle's gobots and he-men
where my other grandfather got me Gi-joe and transformers
cause my parents couldn't afford alot of toys fer me.

instead of going back and reliving it all i'd perfer just go back to certain points of the past and tell myself not to do something and stuff.

1) don't throw away my go-bots and transformers
2) packed my muscles better between moves
3) kept my orginal NES games and my ROB
4) help my grandfather a few more times then i did
5) help my grandmother abit more and , tried not to ask her to bring me to the mall as often.

[arforbes]

I don't think I would go back unless I knew then what I know now. Besides, I think I had a pretty good childhood, and I'm still a kid at heart anyway.

[jkaris]

In keeping with the conditions that you laid out.....
Hell no!
I have a MUCH better life now that I'm an adult, than when I was a kid.
But......
If I could retain the knowledge I have now and do it.....
Damn Straight!

[Adamantiumwulf]

I dont think that I would go back and do it over again.

I had a good child hood and I'm still a kid at heart like everyone on the list.

I wouldnt want to relive being so shy again. It was frustating enough the first time.

[EVOM]

Wow, re livin my childhood, lets see, no responsibilities, no pressure from the rat race and the workin world, riding a bike everywhere, waiting impatiently for the next time You would be getting new m.u.s.c.l.e.s, toys scattered everywhere, I`d take it in a heart beat!!!!! Wait a second, that is my life!!!!!!!

[Ridureyu]

I'd relive moments. Only moments, though. certain ones.

[EASports]

If you mean relive your childhood exactly as it happened the first time... Sure, why not? Since time always seems to have passed by quickly when your thinking back on it, I'd be back here at this point again in no time... But then again, if you didn;t know anything you now know, there's really no point. I mean, it would be exactly the same as before, and soon enough, you'd be grown up again thinking about the toys you had when you were young...

[doc_moore_j]

Interesting topic. Considering you said we can not go back thinking if I knew then what I know now. I do not think I would. Most likely my childhood would be pretty similar. Same poor family, same seperated parents, same drunk family problems etc etc etc... Who knows maybe if I went back depression would take over and I would do somehting stupid. I am definately happier now than I was a child. I have a beautiful wife, and make decent money, plus pretty happy at what I am doing, so no I do not want to go back if I can not change what I would like to change.

[Krangala]

Okay, here's a perfectly random hypothetical scenario... If you could go back in time and relive your childhood, would you? So that the topic doesn't go all over the place, there is one condition: You don't remember anything that has happened to you since then (so there's no "if I knew then what I know now" stuff).

I don't think I would go back. Despite the nostalgia factor, my childhood was somewhat difficult for me, and was filled with anxiety (especially middle school).

-Nathan

I do that very thing every day.......

I become a kid again.......

to actually go back?, who's to say we haven't, but maybe it works both ways......we go back to being a child (And forget what we know now), and then when we come back to the adult world we forget what we experienced then???

nobody knows!!!

[WarOmnimon]

I hear ya Tort. I wouldn't go back and relive my childhood because of problems in Middle School. But if I could go back as myself and watch my early childhood, while not changing the course of history, I would. I spent hours on Super Mario Bros. when I was little.