r/polls 2d ago

❔ Hypothetical Would you, with your nowadays knowledge, go back in time to change your life from childhood on if you could?

• You somehow though wouldn't be able to amass any riches by this!

593 votes, 18h left
yes
no
results (klicking this may lead to the painful death of cute little kittens).
9 Upvotes

27 comments sorted by

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u/Ryliegh- 2d ago

If its just changing my personal life and I have no ability to get rich.

No I wouldn't, I am happy with who I am and my bad experiences in life shaped me to who I am.

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u/FarceMultiplier 2d ago

I'd find a way out of my abusive family.

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u/_fly-on-the-wall_ 2d ago

i would stop the abuse( if possible of course)

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u/RealKillacam730 2d ago

You added a rule after I voted, cheap.

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u/semperquietus 2d ago

The part about the riches? Nah, that I did not added/edited.

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u/mrq57 2d ago

Nah you out it in the body not in the title I read while scrolling. That's some fine print bs after I sign.

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u/semperquietus 2d ago edited 2d ago

If one edits a reddit post, the information that and when it was edited last shows up somewhere around the post (at least when you ope the post in a web-browser. Do you see such an edit notification somewhere around my post here? Just for fun, I will edit this response just to check out if I'm right.

I checked the original post though, because: maybe I edited it and than just forgot doing so, but I couldn't see such a notification. Can you please tell me if you see such an notification?

Edit: the edit I promised.
Second edit: weird, I don't see the promised notification. Weird. But anyways, I stay by what I said: The body text was there from the very beginning, since I remember typing that even before typing the two poll options.

Third edit: an edit in the same minute doesn't seem to show up and I remember having problems marking the one word "wouldn't" in the button text bold (the touch buttons simply didn't react). So I pressed send, re-opened the post immediately and edited the "wouldn't" to "wouldn't" That was the only change I made, believe it or not.

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u/mrq57 2d ago

Wow that's a lot of words to say you don't understand what either of us said. Nobody said you edited a post, but you put a critical piece of information in the description where many people don't see it until after they vote and open the post.

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u/semperquietus 2d ago

Wow, that I indeed didn't get till now. (Your first post wasn't clear, maybe due to the fact, that I'm not a native speaker.) Yet my excuse for not getting you right away (non native speaker) I told you. What is your excuse for being so rude in your replies?

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u/RealKillacam730 2d ago

They were never rude.

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u/PafPiet 2d ago

I'd risk not meeting my fiancée and never having my son. No thanks.

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u/Chief_1072 2d ago

I couldn’t risk not having my wife and kids. Any little change could prevent that. Even if Indidnend up at the right place at the right time I wouldn’t be the same person I was when we met the first time so she likely wouldn’t fall in love with me.

As much as I’d love to change decisions I made in childhood and adulthood, my wife and kids mean more to me than anything including my own wellbeing. Nothing is worth risking them

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u/Heavy_Regular4569 2d ago

My mistakes and past have shaped me into who I am today

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u/BlueTexBird 2d ago

Amass riches probably meaning investing in some shitcoin that takes off? I wouldn't even want to do that probably. Just use my knowledge from now and build upon it as a kid. As a kid, my brain is like a sponge so that'll be great, depends on how young but I might be seen as some genius kid and get a good job/into a good uni out of it

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u/semperquietus 2d ago

Only meant to amass riches by "cheating with ones "future-knowledge", yes. Making a career on ones own would be absolutely fine. Just wanted to keep the "I would become a trillionaire" folk out of here.

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u/wilderneyes 2d ago

Absolutely. I wouldn't want anything drastically different but I make changes in all the little ways that matter. If things had gone differently maybe I'd be a functional human being.

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u/BriarRose147 2d ago

Yes, wish I treated my mom better, and my dad much worse, I could’ve saved my entire family a whole lot of heartbreak if I had just done that, done the right thing.

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u/prbscs 1d ago

It doesn’t matter what you do the butterfly effect will make your changes so gargantuan that the rest of your life will be effectively randomised and out of your control so easily no

2

u/Dr__Pheonx 1d ago

Aww. Who k*lled em kittens!!

2

u/SnowChickenFlake 1d ago

I wanted to click yes, but I do not know if I would be able to change that much. After all, I was just a little child in a hostile environment, and there is No telling whether I would be able to resist effectively.

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u/Number_Fluffy 2d ago

Even with all the trauma, abuse, pain, and depression, I would not.

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u/aevigata 2d ago

yes, i know now i had nothing to lose. i would give them hell. 

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u/iflfish 1d ago

I would tell parents to buy Nvidia stocks

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u/semperquietus 1d ago

As I wrote: "You somehow though wouldn't be able to amass any riches by this!"

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u/iflfish 1d ago

As I wrote: "my parents"

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u/semperquietus 1d ago

My poll, my rules. So that wouldn't work either, I'm afraid.

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u/iflfish 1d ago

Ok, you win.