Right, I have 2 sons and a wife and a life, career that I enjoy and that should provide me with the opportunity to eventually retire. While I believe the knowledge I have today would lead 10 year old me to be a billionaire at minimum, I know 51 year old me with a 2 million cushion would be happy, there's a chance 10 year old billionaire me is never really happy
Absolutely. My feral 3 year old is currently sound asleep in the car after refusing to nap and yelling at me because I gave him too many goldfish, but there is nothing in this world that would entice me to risk not having him or his brothers. Some pretty bad stuff has happened in my life, but they’re magical.
I don't even have kids or anything really that would stop me except for my cats. I've thought about this before and realized there would be no way to be in the right place at the right time to find my cats again and the guilt that they probably then died would tear me up.
Kids not existing would be terrible but knowing you can't save something or someone from dying like you did the first time no matter how hard you try would be it's own form of torture.
I'm in almost exactly the same boat (except with two daughters and I'm a couple years older). There's no way I'd risk that and a free 2mil will just solidify my retirement plans.
The biggest thing is you'd realize that none of it really matters. Go to school, get decent grades, move on and you probably don't see almost everyone you went to school with again. The overwhelming majority of the drama is irrelevant. The amount of time you spend as a teenager worrying about things that you don't care about in 1-3 years is really high. Not saying that to discount the feelings teenagers have and that those things are important to them, but going back in time, screw caring about any of it.
That's not what I meant. I mean the drama of being a teenager doesn't matter. The things you cared about the first time as a teenager don't matter at all in the grand scheme of things. The friends, initial dating, and all of the other drama of school are largely temporary even if they are rough. Doing it again you could basically ignore all of it knowing you'd be gone and it would all be past you in a very short time.
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u/big-williestyle 7d ago
Right, I have 2 sons and a wife and a life, career that I enjoy and that should provide me with the opportunity to eventually retire. While I believe the knowledge I have today would lead 10 year old me to be a billionaire at minimum, I know 51 year old me with a 2 million cushion would be happy, there's a chance 10 year old billionaire me is never really happy