If you could turn back your time and be a dumb teenager again, would you?

So I have to make the same choices I made? I just have to live it again, albeit updated in time? No. I don’t think so. The only point in reliving the past would be if I could change some of it.

Nope. I am good. I made smart choices then which I am proud of.

Nope. I am often glad that I am older these days.

Yes. Hopefully I would get up to date emotional / psychology /psychiatry help. Also help diagnosing my I.B.S.

As a teenager is around the times when mental health issues manifest. I would like to live a normal life again.

Politicians have been negative and lie since day one. Before global climate change was global warming, and before that was the hole in the ozone in the south pole.

I did fine back then !

Aw, hellz no. Nope. Nopity nope nope nope. And did I mention nope?

Who says I haven’t ? ;p

No thanks.

this crazy computer age of Facebook and TikTok, insane lying politicians, radical right wingers and global climate change.

That has nothing to do with whether or not I’d want to relive my teens. In fact, if you’re stipulating that everything would have to be as it originally was, then those things wouldn’t have been there. In order to not change anything, the same circumstances would have to be present.

But aside from that, no, I wouldn’t want to go back and make the same mistakes I made. Why would I? We had our own set of problems, just like our parents before us, and their parents before them, and on and on.

No but I’d love to be a teenager again knowing what I know now. I’d be able to maneuver smoothly through all the crazy situations. That would be so much fun.

@gondwanalon But that would be cheating. You would be smart

Do you think you would really want to do that now in this crazy computer age of Facebook and TikTok, insane lying politicians, radical right wingers and global climate change.

Most people here are over 50, which means their teenage year was filled with stuff like racism, ignorance of mental health, restriction on women, wars… Every era has their own problem. Going to the past to run away from the present’s problems would present you with another set of problems to deal with.

I was going to say “as a teenager, I was shy, awkward, and didn’t have many friends”, but that hasn’t really changed… xD

I think my teenage years were relatively uneventful considering how they could’ve gone. It wouldn’t be the worst thing to have to repeat them, but I don’t think anything fundamentally different would happen in the course of my life. I’m alright with having moved on from those years.

No.

You’re offering “turning back time” but we don’t get to turn back historical changes?

And we don’t get to keep our adult learning and memories?

If I can’t change anything? My childhood was reasonably happy, except for a close relative sick and eventually dying of cancer. I would do it again.

Given the choice to live it as a teenager today vs. 60 years ago I’d go with the old days. There were no home computers or social media to wreck lives. We had a lot of freedom. And we had good, real fireworks! (Banned nationwide in 1966.)

By the way, I was never a dumb teenager. I knew everything! Just ask me and I’ll tell you!

@LuckyGuy LOL!! Oh my. There’s no such thing!

@RayaHope Come on. Doesn’t every teenager think they know everything? Certainly they think they know more than their parents! :-)

I thought that a couple years ago but I’ve come to learn recently that I need to learn a lot more than I ever thought and my mom is the BOMB! I would be nothing without her and I’m so glad she is my mom now!

@RayaHope I am so glad to hear that! You are well on your way to a wonderful adulthood!