If you could

[bledd]

My only regret I have in life is when I was 8 years old, me and my friend smashed up my sit on pedal tractor for a laugh. When he went home, I cried about it and my parents never let me get another

 

[Cosimo]

Look to the future and not the past.

 

[Gigi]

I would travel back to when I was 18... 2004....

Dear Gigi...

Dont ask out the girl you fancy, she will cause you financial strife for the entire time you go out with her... and for the years afterwards. Keep your money and spend it wisely... oh and lose weight for godsake!

Kind Regards..

Future Gigi

xx

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Write a series of Harry Potter books.

After 3 years of writing, are you telling me this has already been done?

 

[Castiel]

Indeed.

What's the point in travelling back in time to tell yourself to do something differently? If you were to take your own advice then your whole reason for travelling back in time would cease to exist. Therefore you wouldn't travel back in time, you wouldn't impart any advice and you wouldn't be able to avoid the mistakes you made the first time around.

We cannot use time travel to undo our mistakes.

Errrr....you cannot use time travel at all, so what is wrong with 'what if' supposition in this context? If you want to be concerned with the paradoxes involved then the mere fact that time-travel is currently impossible would negate returned at all, let alone actually changing anything.

The thread is more about what you regret or would have done differently rather than the hypothetical mechanism for accomplishing it.

Besides who is to say that changing something would not simply create a divergence in the time-line rather than changing the current one.

 

[Castiel]

Look to the future and not the past.

You should do both and apply what you have learned in the past to the present in order to have a better future.

 

[Theophany]

The thread is more about what you regret or would have done differently rather than the hypothetical mechanism for accomplishing it.

Not necessarily, OP just says what would you tell yourself. You could tell yourself good things

 

[hanluc]

Don't hit that van with your wrist.

 

[Castiel]

Not necessarily, OP just says what would you tell yourself. You could tell yourself good things

You could, however it is unlikely and in any event whether good or bad, it still implies change.

 

[EdGey]

Buy gold

 

[checjb]

I get to do this by proxy every year. It not exactly the same but I go into my wife's school (she's the Head of Sixth Form) and talk to some of the kids about my education choices, career paths and about life in general. OK, it doesn't help past-me but it gives me a real sense of righteousness.

 

[cyber69]

Buy gold

Are you Gordon Brown?

 

[Castiel]

Are you Gordon Brown?

He sold it.

 

[Cosimo]

He sold it.

Half of it and lost the country around £5 billion doing it.

 

[Castiel]

Half of it and lost the country around £5 billion doing it.

That's because he is an economic genius......

 

[Cosimo]

That's because he is an economic genius......

Ah that myth.

 

[jp_bl_68]

Besides who is to say that changing something would not simply create a divergence in the time-line rather than changing the current one.

Your mum. Boom.





Just kidding. I was bored last night so I decided to be a bit arsey here and there.

In all seriousness, I don't think I'd say anything to my former self. Any mistakes I've made have changed me into the person I am today. I'm relatively happy right now so why jeopardise that?

That being said, if I did meet my former self there's a good chance we'd end up in bed. It wouldn't be gay, it'd be the best fap ever

 

[area51_for_psx]

Would love to go and tell myself not to get involved with a certain gril. And tell myself to go out and have fun when i was in my teens. THink my life would be a lot easier I had

 

[mjt]

"Don't be such a ****."

 

[Ham]

"Take the blue pill."