Would you shorten your life by ten years so you could relive your favourite year?

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Something I was idly thinking about yesterday.

Let's say you were given a wish, which is that you can relive one year of your life with all the same events, all the same responses from people etc, but you will be in your 2022 brain. Nothing will change, and you cannot screw anything up, but your life will be shortened by ten years. When the year is up, you will back in May 2023 and can carry on pretty much as you left off.

Would you do it? You have several options though, if you want to consider it...

Easy mode: You don't take the wish. Nothing changes.
Normal mode: You get to relive the year of your choice. It can be any 12 month span [e.g. June 2012 to May 2013]. You can't mess anything up. People will still react to you as they did then even if you try to mess things up. Your life is shortened by ten years.
Hard mode: You get to choose any year, but it must be Jan-Dec only. You can't mess anything up. Your life is shortened by seven years.
Nightmare mode: You get to choose any year, but Jan-Dec only. You can mess things up and events can change if you make the wrong choices. Your life is shortened by five years.
Chaos mode: As Nightmare mode but when you return in May 2023 no-one will have missed you or remember you and everyone will have moved on. Your life is shortened by three years.

So, GD, which is it to be?
 
Reliving isn't the same as experiencing it for the first time. You'll likely come back disappointed that it wasn't as great as you remembered and end up with a shorter life and ruined memories :p
 
I think this is one of those decisions it would be best to have a fap before making ;)
Else I'd go nightmare mode, with a certain few months in mind, and ohhhhh the fun i would have messing up, and in some cases not messing up.
 
If I go back to 09/10 can I buy couple of hundreds bitcoins and keep them? Similar with lotto numbers, if I was to win couple of jackpots would I keep the money? :D
 
Destination said:
I think this is one of those decisions it would be best to have a fap before making ;)
Else I'd go nightmare mode, with a certain few months in mind, and ohhhhh the fun i would have messing up, and in some cases not messing up.
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For Nightmare mode it could go either way. I think you may be able to even improve some situations, whereas others would probably turn out worse.
 
bayo000 said:
If I go back to 09/10 can I buy couple of hundreds bitcoins and keep them? Similar with lotto numbers, if I was to win couple of jackpots would I keep the money? :D
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Nope :) The only thing waiting for you in May 2023 will be more Windows updates :)
 
bayo000 said:
If I go back to 09/10 can I buy couple of hundreds bitcoins and keep them? Similar with lotto numbers, if I was to win couple of jackpots would I keep the money? :D
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nah - you can't take stuff back to the future with u
but maybe an extra mode where u could, but it cost 20 years, would put some ppl on the fence.
 
Actually, what if you only have a year or two left as it is? Would all the options be greyed out and not available?
 
bayo000 said:
Actually, what if you only have a year or two left as it is? Would all the options be greyed out and not available?
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If you have a year or two left then you have to gamble for Bully's special prize, which is either a new kitchen or a year's supply of chicken bhuna.
 
Being overweight, I'll probably knock 10 years off my life anyway, so I'm up for this. I'm happy to take Hard Mode and knock 7 years off.

The Jan-Dec year that I would repeat would be 2001. This was an era when clubbing was still a thing. Slinky, Sundissential, Godskitchen, Gatecrasher etc. It started going downhill from the mid-2000s onwards. Clubs being converted into flats in the name of "gentrification".
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
Being overweight, I'll probably knock 10 years off my life anyway, so I'm up for this. I'm happy to take Hard Mode and knock 7 years off.

The Jan-Dec year that I would repeat would be 2001. This was an era when clubbing was still a thing. Slinky, Sundissential, Godskitchen, Gatecrasher etc. It started going downhill from the mid-2000s onwards. Clubs being converted into flats in the name of "gentrification".
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Oh God, yes. I remember queuing outside Fabric in 2000 with my ex gf when Fatboy Slim was playing. We ended up queuing for so long we went home.

That was our clubbing experience for the night :p

I still haven't decided which mode I would go with.
 
I can understand wanting to repeat years in the past. It seemed to me to be a better world back then when the mind wasn't restricted by the word games these days.

But I think as we get older we appreciate life more. What happens if one of your 10 years you knocked off would be better than your current favourite? You'd never experience it.

Also, so if you take the deal and relive that favourite year again, then what? You're stuck with the rest of your life thinking that is it.
 
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