If life had a reset button...

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Remember when you were younger playing video games and on the SNES or N64? If you screwed up you could just press reset, because alot of games you needed great success to keep going with all of the max perks weapons, health, energy. But if you were on you last life, it was better to just start over because eventually you are going to fall.....

If life had that same "chance" to where you could just flip a switch and start over with everything completely random, would you take that chance?

Nothing is guaranteed, and your life would have the possibility to be completely different. Maybe better maybe worse, maybe you wouldnt have AS or Autism or another developmental delay, maybe you would have a whole other set of problems and circumstances to deal with. Maybe you start off again in a different country, instead of the comfortable one you have known for your whole life.
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I hate to say, but if such a switch existed, I would flick it in a second without any thought.[/b] Im really sorry but there just is no purpose or direction in my life, and i have only made a clown out of myself and I have had so many chances to grow, but I failed to recognize and carpe diem a single one.

The problem is you'd lose all your progress. Something more like Grand Theft Auto would be better, so you can save your progress, but if a whole bunch of stuff happens that you don't like, you can just not save it, and hit reset and you'll be back to where you were the last time you saved. That and running people over, getting into 6 star gunfights with police, and not really dying when you're "wasted" would also be kinda cool.

No. There is always going to be quite a bit of unsavoryness to life. You cannot let that impede your way to the savory stuff.

And: your weakness is your strength. I believe it with all my heart. Unique misfortune yields the opportunity for unique + transcendental ingenuity.

Thats the risk! Thats the whole point of the question. Is it worth it?

I get what you are saying, and I want to see life that way, but I can't. I am just not that mature yet, and I don't know if I ever will be at the rate things are going.

I have had so many chances to break out of my shell, but for some reason there was something holding me back. I have had so many chances to finally start my life, but now it seems like its "never" going to happen, and the more time that goes by, and the more opportunities I fail to see and act upon, my confidence just keeps plummeting.

I really truly feel like my life up to this point has been a waste. 100%. High school years were a waste. College years were a waste. It really hurts me to say that s**t, but its the truth. What have I really learned except how to be fake enough to "just get by' and compress my real self?

That would be great. Except I have the bad habit of only using one save, rarely two, and just overwriting that, and sometimes getting royally screwed.

Oh, yeah. You'd want to have multiple saves, and you might have at least one at 18 or 25 years old and another at 32 or so that never get overwritten. The possibilities are endless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpNR1SnHeRA&feature=related




Well if that's the way it has to be, then no, I wouldn't do it. I guess we'll never know if it's worth it.

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I wouldn't press reset, because I wouldn't want to start over and go through childhood again. Each person's life has its high and low points.

restarting life would only be worth it if I get to keep what I know now. The circumstances that I grew up under were unhealthy (two aspie parents, including a physically and mentally abusive father...) to begin with, and I'm okay with the nightmare I came up with, I wouldn't roll the die because I made it through a very rough childhood, extremely lonely teenage years with many bad roads that I could have taken, but I am here today and luck played a huge role in that and I don't want to try my chances.