I feel like I would make use of it more if I could do it again. Maybe that’s weird, I don’t know.
Edit; To ask more of a question. What would you do differently?
Frankly, the further one grows past the school age, the more (I’ve found) one finds that all that was only practice for the actual schooling. Keep getting smarter, and never stop learning! 🤘🏼
I’ve sometimes thought along the lines of OP, and for me it was thinking about opportunities that were available back then. One could get a better head start in life by doing better in school or applying for the right program, or even just switching to the right career path sooner.
What’s nice though is that we might someday want to jump back to where we are right now, and we can take advantage of our current opportunities too :)
To quote a recent bit of dark AF insight: “Kids these days say ‘when I grow up, I wanna—’ Nah. It’s 70F in Dec. You ain’t growing up, son.”
On the other hand, nostalgia is a golden-haloed liar. The only “good times” are right fucking now. Live your life in the present, not the cherry-picked & misremembered past.
Jesse, I am the danger🤌🏿
It’d be nice to do the whole childhood over again but with parents who loved me.
This is the only thing that would make me say no. I could relive the shitty school years, I could not relive the shitty home years.
I laughed, then cried
Hell no
Fuck no that sounds awful
Fuuck no! While there sure are thing I miss about my childhood and teenage years school isn’t one of those. School fucking sucked.
Youth is wasted on the young, and wisdom is wasted on the old.
On one hand I wish I’d handled a lot of it differently and studied more. On the other hand I’m not sure how much I’d realistically have been able to change considering what I needed was medication and accommodations that just weren’t going to happen, so instead I’d just be putting myself into when my trauma happened and being more vulnerable, which doesn’t sound like a great idea.
I studied well, got a really good tertiary ranking (95th percentile) and chose a degree program that seemed good. I hated that course. Didn’t finish it. If I hadn’t had that experience I would probably make the same mistake again.
With all my knowledge intact? Hell yes! I’d keep all that bitcoin instead of spending tens of thousands of it (about £100) on Silk Road in uni.
4 Bitcoins for an 8th? Bargain!
Did you have no knowledge of tact back then? 🧌
Aha good spot
Hell yes. Go back with all my masterful adult experience and knowledge, so I could own that place. It would be glorious.
Or I’d still get bullied into non existence. Kids are still way meaner than me, even as a grizzled grown up….
I don’t think it would change much, I have a problem focusing and studying, and 20 years ago ADHD was still a “hit him/yell at him until he studies”.
I would like to do school again but start it with an ADHD diagnosis.
Hell no. School was the worst time of my life, I was glad I could decide to skip school days when the education was hugely lacking and study quietly at home. The school system held me back hugely, as the higher level kids were kept back by the kids strugling. Also the constant bullying at school made me hate being amongst people.
College, yes. I should have done social time separately from education and taken a year or two off. High school, absolutely not. No way.
School? No. University: Maybe.
It’s never too late to learn things. Read some books, visit a library and get the standard literature. It’s not as easy as if you were learning as a kid, because adults have other things to do and it’s difficult to muster up the time… But I still like to broaden my perspective and learn new things. And I admire people who are like 65 and choose to attend some university course or learn a new music instrument.
Turning back time isn’t an option. So think about what you actually want and go for it. There probably is a way if you really want to…
when i was about 10 or so we moved to a new neighborhood. obviously that meant exploring the new area, and making new friends. the first people i met in that area lived down the road from me. two of my new friends were brothers, one a bit older than the other, both several years older than me. they had a neighbor, who was my age, and we attended 3rd grade together.
the older brother was a bit wiser and kinder, the younger brother could be a bit bullheaded at times. when i was about 15, i left to live with my dad. those 5 or so years seemed so incredibly formative on my upbringing, for good or bad. around that time the younger brother died in a car wreck, and i really hadn’t spent much time with them since i moved away.
to this day, i remember something the older brother taught me, which was to try to learn something new everyday. you won’t always succeed, but it’s still important to try.
i’m 40. the amount of time i lived there was really only about 1/8th of my life. but i still try to learn something new everyday.
I can relate to that. It’s fascinating that even limited time with some people provides us with something lasting for life.
I think there is really quite some truth to it. We adults oftentimes are captured within our daily grind. And you have to pay attention.
I’ve been in grad school for ten years, I’d choose less school.
