I would absolutely edit my timeline at several key points that would deanonymize me further if I pointed them out. But I do wish certain specific and immutable things could be different.
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2025
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I match your desired timeline and I'd take yours any day.
When you get to 50, you'll understand.
When you get to 50, you'll understand.
I'm not the original commenter, but as someone in a similar boat, I'll interpret:
Aging fucking sucks. Seeing doors close as your body switches modes is depressing as hell. Knowing you have another half century left, but it's all gonna be worse is a terrible feeling.
Knowing you have another half century left
I hate to break it to you, but that's unlikely.
When you're 50 in the US, you have a little less than 30 springs left on average. a few more if you live in a country with a functional healthcare system.
Think about it: when you turn 50, you'll only get to say "summer is coming" 30 times. Merry Chrismas or Happy New Year to your family 30 times. Or "I'll do it next year" 30 times. And when you're 50, you know 30 years pass quickly.
And that's if the big C or COVID or something equally stupid doesn't get you first.
To the OP: enjoy your youth while you can. It'll be over before you know it. Trust me on this one.
Hate to break it to you but thatβs unlikely too.
There wonβt be 30 more Springs when the endless Summer arrives.
I'm thinking I have 20 more years of being in working condition, so I'm planning to work less and travel more from next year already. Using my savings.
I don't dare to wait until I'm 65 to do all those things. Many people get sick and don't do anything.
Lol, you don't have half a century left. If you're American, your life expectancy is 72 and dropping.
Eh, I'm about the same age as OP, I don't have to get to 50 to know that I'd take my parents' economic context over the two crashes. The rest... For many reasons, if medicine does some miraculous leap forward by then, maybe I'll still wish I got a lot more left to go by then.
Seventies baby here. We worried a lot about nuclear war, but the threat of nuclear war is probably greater now than it was then. It just doesn't crack the top ten anymore. That's how incredibly fucked everything is.
It is higher now than ever according to experts, but our government and our corporate media prefer not to prioritize the issue.
Probably for the best. Most of us die if there is a nuclear war, so just don't even think about it. But live your life now.
I don't think the world can prioritize something and the threat will go away.
I'm not sure any of that means it's any more likely to happen than before, but what do I know?
I remember the fear mongering of the Cold War, the ozone layer depleting, and the AIDS epidemic.
Times were simpler back then, but I donβt think they were necessarily better.
I match your preferred timeline and wouldn't change it. Happy that my childhood and young adult life is documented mostly by still photos with no backup.
I delete my depression
i would edit my timeline to change things pertaining to my homosexuality: namely avoiding entering my marriage that doma forced me to dissolve and avoiding permanent debt in student loans that dadt forced me to take on; both were a heavy & permanent detrminents to my financial future.
i'm living your preferred alternate timeline and i can assure that things REALLY sucked for people like me so the thought of someone else desiring it blows my mind.
i think maybe i could see it if i were a little bit older so that i could have enjoyed the liberalism of the 70's; but then the hiv/aids scare would have impacted me even more than it already did.
I would change to being born AFAB and in a country where theres good healthcare (like Germany or Denmark)
I'd trade being born in Texas in the 80's for the Netherlands.
This will probably be controversial, but as a millennial I'd change over to be a zoomer if I could
I'm going the opposite direction and becoming a boomer. Life on easy mode? Hell yeah!
Better music, better life outlook, better jobs... take me with you.
I'm watching The Six Million Dollar Man right now, loved it as a kid in the 70's.
Hmm.. Born closer to the koc family than I already am (basically the grandson of the CEO of koc holding)
Guarantee my success rather than guarantee an alright life
You are describing me. :)
And yeah, I'm happy with my timeline. If anything, I would move it back even more. Born in the 60s would open up for a lot of cool stuff in the 70s.
Being born in the first place.
Hm, maybe being born 10 year earlier, so I could grow together with my siblings, play the first Sonic games back in the day and be a lot wiser today.
No, because no human deserves that power.