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I finished listening to a book called "A gift of time" in which an 80 year old man full of regrets on the night he was going to commit suicide has a spaceship crash in his front yard, and as a reward for helping the ships AI repair the ship he gets to have his consciousness downloaded into his 10 year old self 70 years earlier. so basically he is 10 years old in the 1940's with 80 years of life experience and a phd in physics in his head.
Reading this got me thinking if I could do the same, when would I go to?
I know I definitely would not go pre puberty. I would most likely go back sometime between 1986-1991
between the ages of 16 and 21 when my dating pool was at it's deepest, and my success rate was at it's highest, armed with the knowledge of who were prone to having affairs, who were going to develop drug habits, the ones that will eventually become right leaning materialistic sellouts, who was going to age well, the ugly ducklings that will become semi attractive or attractive 30, 40 and 50 year old's.
and even with girls I did not know back then (the first time around) I would still have 30+ extra years of relationship experience to draw on to make better choices at a time when I still had way more options than in 2017. or even look up those women I have dated in resent years who were a great match and we got along great when together but the only obstacle in our relationship was kids from previous relationships took up a lot of their time(which is why I stopped dating single mothers) or crazy ex's were always interfering, but meet them BEFORE they had kids or got with said ex.
What do you guys think, what age would you send your consciousness to?
And how do you think it would help or do you not think it would help?
I have no interest in re-living my first 25 years. K-12, college, and those first few years getting myself established professionally so I had the income level to live a good life. Age 25 to 30 would be good knowing what I know now.
I wouldn't go back at all. It's *WAY* too easy to remember only the good and skim over all the hardships. While I have some small regrets, they get smaller with each passing year. I highly doubt I'll have any big regrets from this point forward.
If the aliens were to offer a reward, I'd want to experience something other-worldly... or just have them end my existence.
Attending a university is the very best time in life for finding love, finding a life partner, or finding people to date or finding someone to marry.
I don't think there is any situation or time in life which matches the very fertile grounds of attending university for 4 years for a Bachelors degree, and then pursuit of a masters degree for some.
It's all downhill after college for finding love, dates, people to partner with, finding relationships. No other place has such possibility.
Being 10 years old with the brain and experiences of an 80-year-old would be terrible.
I agree.
"Finding love" can happen at any (adult) age OP.
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