If you woke up one morning.

I'd spend a whole lot less time stoned, and a whole lot more time studying and working hard. I was such a slacker in my twenties, and I expect I could see some major changes to my current situation if I applied my current frame of mind to the situation.

Mortis also makes a good point. I know all kinds of things that would have shocked me back then. Microsoft making the most successful games console? I can barely believe it even now, let alone ten years ago.

Ideally I would want to go back further if I was going to start living my life over with the same knowledge though. I'm not entirely dissatisfied with my current situation, but I know I could do better than I ever did. The only part that would suck is that I'm almost certain there wouldn't be any way to make sure things work out with my current girlfriend in that timeline. You can't reliably duplicate a chance meeting, and there's no way to know if she would initially be drawn to me in the same way.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Darsh

This seems to be the dream most people have, to properly re-live ther lives, to fix their past mistakes etc. But the real problems come from certain instances when things were set up perfectly before that created something great, like meeting new people or getting a job unexpectedly or randomly getting something of value, Im sure when you re-live your expected early life, those instances wont show cause youve altered the balance or something to that effect.

Exactly. That's what I would be concerned about if offered the chance to try this. It's not like a videogame where you get to save, if you end up with a life that's actually worse at the end of this, you'd be stuck with that life. I may not have made a huge success out of my career or my academic endeavours, but I found some good friends and a nice girl, which seems like a lot to risk.

There's nowhere I can't reach.