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I have always found this question haunting. I would imagine if I had the ability to forever banish a single though from my head, this would be it.
by mgh95 1y ago
I have always found this question haunting. I would imagine if I had the ability to forever banish a single though from my head, this would be it.
- Etheryte 1y agoMaybe an alternative perspective helps. If you could always do it over, an infinite redo so to say, nothing would matter. Every choice and outcome would become insignificant, because you could just redo it until it was just right. On the flip side, there's always going to be something that you miss out on, no matter how many times you could do it, some choices simply exclude other outcomes and you can't have both. The fact that you can't simply redo things is in a way what gives them value and meaning — what you choose matters.
- westcoast49 1y ago> If you could always do it over, an infinite redo so to say, nothing would matter. Every choice and outcome would become insignificant, because you could just redo it until it was just right. The movie Groundhog Day comes to mind.
- CMCDragonkai 1y agoAnother way to think about this is playing a video game with cheats on. You get to infinitely restart until you "win". Life isn't really like that though. The win conditions in one life doesn't match the win conditions in other lives.
- rxtexit 1y agoI think it is that the alternate paths are just so easy to romanticize. I have been doing this lately with how maybe I should have went into the military after high school. Of course, the romanticized version doesn't include losing a limb in Afghanistan. It just easy to take the good fortune that did happen for granted.