cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/44187272
Besides the obvious answer of making money, or rather, how would you do it as an 8 year old? What else would you do?
I would teach other 8 year olds how to butcher a hog.
I wouldn’t spend so much fucking time on a fucking computer… maybe.
Do I keep my language skills?
Then have a normal childhood with normal social interactions in Canada instead of the awkward immigrant who can barely speak. Also potentially get diagnosed with autism as a kid because I kind of the language barrier masked some of the symptoms.
Fix my education path. No compromises. No getting gaslighted.
If they won’t officially give me my classes, I’ll sit in the right ones until they either give them to me or kick me out.
Edit: Also, try and stop the Brook Brothers Riots.
Take a water bottle on an airplane, buy stock in apple, and send the money to the PFLP
Transition at 10, as soon as the egg cracks.
Graduate early and then use my future knowledge to make a shit ton of money as early as I can, Then retire and finally relax for once in my two lives
I would actually follow through with that suicide i was thinking of back in the day. I think about it today also, but I used to as well.
Life ain’t worth the squeeze, and im not adding an additional 30 years to my shift on earth.
Sorry to hear that even if you had the advantage of having the wisdom of a 38 year old at 8 you still don’t find life worth living. I disagree, but can sympathize with the cynicism. I hope you find something akin to peace.
Transition earlier.
Try to get away from my abusive parents.
Do certain things to meet my best friends earlier and convince them.
Stand up for myself more.
Spend more time with my grandparents.I’ve thought about it a lot
Depends on whether that’s 8yo now or back when I was 8.
In either case, a lot more fucking around as a teenager and a lot less fucking around in my 20’s.
Transition decades earlier. Or more precisely have the courage, vocabulary and fortitude to stand up to my religious mother and bigoted father. I always knew what I wanted, but they both insisted on doing football and weight lifting, no matter how out of place and unnatural those environments felt to me.
I’d try to be less sensitive and socially awkward, since that’s how i was when i was younger and it affected me heavily later on.
I’d also try to be a better person to all my ex-friends, and give them more attention; try not to drift away.
Besides that? I don’t know. Nothing, I guess. I wouldn’t go back to being 8 even if i had a choice, tbh. I don’t miss those times.
I would kms if that happened
I wouldn’t change a thing, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to meet my partner.
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?
Imagine going back in time thinking you will be able to get the same partner but earlier, but after like few minutes of conversation it turns out that the other person thinks you are a fucking creep and doesn’t want to have anything to do with you ever. It would be a fucking nightmare.
Yep, for us it only worked precisely due to a ton of branching choices changing who we are and how we lived our lives prior to meeting.
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 :)
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.
[Panics trying to remember every “correct” move since I was 8]
Yea, lol. Would be awful!
Probably be catatonic. This kind of stress, self-doubt and loathing require those extra 32 years of building resilience. Transplant it into 8 year old me and he just shuts off I imagine.
