Do you ever wish you could go back in time?

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I mean to a happier time. For me, it's every day. Every day I wish I could go back to being a kid, playing with my mom and dad, not worrying about anything. Hell, even going back a few years ago too when I was happier (when I was 19 and 21 I remember being pretty content then). Certain songs I listen to bring up memories (I imprint songs on memories for some reason) and it makes me sad all the time when I hear them, even though they are good songs.

Maybe it's just the fact that I hate growing up.

The Squid believes everyone has this feeling at one point or another. We wish we could go back to Christmas around 1994-1995. It felt like Christmas then. The Poke'mon craze hit down here in the reef and everyone was into it. Momma Squid and I painted giant Poke'mon on cardboard signs, strung appropriate colored Christmas lights along the outline, and placed it on the roof of our grotto. We miss these times...

Yep. Often.

life was pretty good for me in the 90s.

I often wish I could go back to the 90's and be a more laid-back, happy child making the most of my childhood, instead of the sulky child that I was.

I wish that very often.

All the freaking time. As cool as it is to say you're a "90s child" nowadays, the truth is I don't really remember much of the 90s, despite being born in 1993. What I do fondly remember are the early 2000s, those were my best years. Of course, if I were able to go back in time but stay the same age, I would definitely relive the 90s, and actually BE there. So many cool things happened that decade, it was a great decade for music, technology, gaming... I truly only got to experience the "leftovers" of it as a millenial. I'm sure most self-proclaimed "90s kids" are really just millenials myself who have fond memories of the leftovers of the 90s, and not the actual 90s themselves.

But as far as reliving my own life, I'd love to live my childhood over, as well as my adolesence. Maybe I'd be able to stop my parents from breaking up, and change things for the better.

Oh yes, very much so. I would go back to when life was so good that I took it for granted, as normative standards in life.

Yes, but not in the same way. I often daydream about being able to go back and witness events in history that we know little about, or about altering it, preventing some tragedy. 'No Mr. Custer, you really don't want to go down there.' etc.

NO way I want to go back. I made it through once- and the future holds many good things. There are good things to come- but I can't get to them if I'm trying to go backwards.

Then again, growing up in a dysfunctional family- you learn to keep moving forward and you learn that quick. I ain't ever going back to being powerless and beaten up. No thanks.

I was abused, ridiculed, gaslighted, a drunk and miserable and lonely.

Now- married, figured out I"m autistic, sober, have enough friends for my taste, freedom and hope. Feel like I was spared by the hangman so I'll take the future.

Yes but for different reasons. I wasn't really that happy as a child. I was bored. I was really unhappy as a teen yet that is the time I would like to go back to. Not because I enjoyed it but because I'd want to right all the wrongs.

I was a semi-normal child but as a teen I got derailed from the path to manhood. I joined the Peter Pan crowd as another manchild. So many mistakes I can remember. I can identify the exact moments when I lost different opportunities.

I always feel I'm more than a few years behind my peers. I made a pretty sorry teenager and now I make a pretty poor adult but if I could wake up at 15 or so with all I know now I think I'd make a decent teen.

I thought you only get say you're a 90s child if you were born in the 80s. I really like early-mid 90s culture but as a bored child I saw most of it through TV and video games. Late 90s culture was awful. Culture didn't get good again 'till the late 00s. I'm still mad I missed out on the 80s.

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No, my past has very little to recommend it.

I used to live in the past all the time. I wished I was that happy, carefree kid before I was brutally beaten (literally) down to earth in school. I wish I was that idealistic 20 year old finishing off his degree ready to make a difference. I wish I could have gone back to 22 year old me, asked that girl out and felt the sting of the likely rejection to realize it's not the end of the world.

Then I realized that life is not meant to be a dream run. There are many things I have wished for but I am learned to heed the advice that states 'be careful what you wish for as it might come true'. I do wish that my extended family still got along but I realize I can use that as a lesson to make sure I do not repeat the same mistakes.

You should watch the movie called "About Time". It's one of my favorites.

Yes to change an unwanted life event and the consequences that arouse because of it. Other then that I'm perfectly OK just looking after me my self and I these days Plus if I were to go back in time I'd have to deal with people whom really didn't know about Autism thus they would throw out more unsuited labels or create new labels. I'll stay in the present and look forward to what the future may hold.

Constantly.

But I wouldn't want to relive my childhood. It was crap at the time and I'm sure it'd be crap again. I'd want to go back to my late teens, knowing the stuff that I know now, so I don't irreparably screw up my life a second time. I'd study hard, try to get into medical school. (Any time I worry about my lack of sympathy, I just think of past doctors I've dealt with. Zero people skills obviously didn't hinder their careers.)