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I hate when I hit a melancholy mood, and I'm kinda unsure what triggered this one. The question's simple though, if you were given the option would you return to being a child?

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I hate when I hit a melancholy mood, and I'm kinda unsure what triggered this one. The question's simple though, if you were given the option would you return to being a child?

Nope.

I treasure being an adult... even though I haven't grown up.

Nah, you just have different sucky problems.

No one at my job's ever beaten me up and taken my lunch money.

So this isn't about the Arthur C Clarke book?

No. Sex and booze are too much fun.

 Ouze wrote:
Nah, you just have different sucky problems.

No one at my job's ever beaten me up and taken my lunch money.

Get on the wrong end of a police officer and you can get the first, and some would argue taxes is exactly the second

Do i stay a child or do i get to grow up again?

If the former then feth no.
If the later then feth yes. There's a girl I really should have asked out in year 7 and a metric fethton of homework i REALLY should have done from years 1 to 12.

Heh, yeah getting a "New Game +" option would be freaking awesome.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Heh, yeah getting a "New Game +" option would be freaking awesome.

Now my co-workers are looking at me funny for snorting so hard.

yeah, I'd do new game + pretty fast.

Hell I'd do a new game + based off my first 24 years of game play XD

Nah. I mean, elementary school, I guess that was fun? Don't really remember. Middle school sucked, high school sucked slightly less. I'd be perfectly fine remaining a college student indefinitely, though!

Yeah, I would just want to go back to after HS graduation and through College.

Everything else sucked.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I hate when I hit a melancholy mood, and I'm kinda unsure what triggered this one. The question's simple though, if you were given the option would you return to being a child?

No. I can drink, make my own rules, and have sex. All three of these things are awesome.

Why the feth would I go back?

Go through puberty again?
Screw that.
I'm in a good place in my life, I have few regrets over the things I've done.
I see no reason to go back and start again, even if I knew then what I know now.

 kronk wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I hate when I hit a melancholy mood, and I'm kinda unsure what triggered this one. The question's simple though, if you were given the option would you return to being a child?

No. I can drink, make my own rules, and have sex. All three of these things are awesome.

Why the feth would I go back?

Because as a teenager you can do at least 2 out of 3 of those things and you don't have to pay bills, be responsible, etc...

I'd like to go back to college, though senior year of high school wasn't bad either, though I'd like it to be after January and the great pregnancy scare of twenty ought 7 .

Edit: Insert AvenueQ's "I wish I could go back to college"

Nah. fething up a lot made me what I am.

 kronk wrote:
Nah. fething up a lot made me what I am.

Yep. there's still a framed picture of you at your school, with the legend: don't be this guy.

If you can't be a good example, you can at least be a terrible warning...

I'd want to go back to correct some screw ups, but only if I knew what I do now. I'd probably be treated oddly if I was jaded and cynical as I am now, though

Reminds me of that movie "Butterfly effect". What if you did something differently but for some reason one of your relatives dies, or something happens to you?

No, on second thought I wouldn't.

Time travel is scary, man. I'm not touching that gak.

I was dissapointed this wasnt a thread about the book

"childhoods end"

you should read it! great book about aliens coming to earth.

 dogma wrote:
No. Sex and booze are too much fun.

Thread over.

Would I want to go back and do it again? feth no.

Would I want to go back to being a child and it stay that way? feth no.

Would I want to suddenly be about 20 years younger, get to do that again, knowing what I know now? Hell yes.

Sure, I would miss some things, but there knowing what I know now I could do so much better. Both because of all the extra stuff I know, the confidence I have gained, and because I could go through school and university without the drag of undiagnosed dyspraxia and other things, and with proper support for my dyslexia. On top of it all I would have the confidence and knowledge to call out teachers who didn't give a feth about disability rather than sitting there taking it like I did as a kid.

Booze, I would miss a little, but not that much, sex, ye, that would be hard, but at least I would have the confidence to be able to hit on girls and at least give it a try at what the geeky little teenager I was missed out on. If not at least I don't have to go looking in the bushes by canals and woods for porn like we used to.

The downside would be that teachers and adults would probably think I was a mouthy little fether now, because I am much more willing to stand up for myself.

No. Not fond of my childhood. You wouldn't be able to tell it by looking at me, but I was a fat kid. Being fat sucked.

Kids seem to have it easy, until you realize that they're making
the best of circumstances that exist beyond their control. While
we adults have that as well, we still have the power to say,
"Screw it," and walk away from a bad situation. Kids who try
that often find themselves prey. (Adults, too, but my gut feeling
is that we have a better survival rate.)

Depends.. if I keep my current knowledge.. then hell yeah. Time for some bully beatdown.

Yeah, I missed a lot of opportunities as a child/teenager and would like the chance to start over if I could, as long as I have the wisdom I've gained over the years and do things right this time.

 Soladrin wrote:
Depends.. if I keep my current knowledge...........

Oh the pain, knowing who was win to win the 1988-89 League but being too young to be allowed to bet my life savings (about £3.52p back then) on it!

On first thought being a yoof again is attractive but if I went back and corrected those mistakes/what ifs then I probably would have what I have now. I wouldn't want to change my kids one bit for example but there is something interesting about probably being that bit more confident that would have been fun.

Lets see, I would loose the ability to control my own finances, loose the ability to go online w/o my parent watching me, I would be stuck in a building learning stuff I would already know. And I loose the ability to do what i please at a whim.
The only pro i can think of in certain movie wouldnt piss me off as much as they do now

Nope. Every good thing, mistake, screw up, and everything in between made me who I am and I'm happy with where I am.

 Ahtman wrote:
So this isn't about the Arthur C Clarke book?

I looked at the thread title and thought the same! Years since I read it, but remember it being rather good..