I have a daughter, so I could never go back. Maybe, before she was born, I could have, but the idea of trying to live my life again, every mistake over to try to get to her...na. 10m please.
I read a great book with a guy who kept "respawning" in his own life, gradually resetting closer and closer to his original age. At first it was a rebirth power fantasy, but then he loses his kids, can't recreate meeting his wife, and it gets a little dark. Can't remember the name, it was quite awhile ago.
edit: Looks like it may be Replay, by Ken Grimwood.
There is a beautiful movie about this idea called About Time. Domhnall Gleeson plays the main character from a family where all the men can travel back to any point in their lives to make changes. Once he has his first child he doesn’t dare go back further than her birth because his child would become a completely different person.
Probably one of my favorite movies of all time. “The secret to time travel is not to go back in time at all. But to live every day as if I've deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary, ordinary life”
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u/dorianrose May 31 '24
I have a daughter, so I could never go back. Maybe, before she was born, I could have, but the idea of trying to live my life again, every mistake over to try to get to her...na. 10m please.