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*KoutaTheCreator Feb 1, 2013  Student Digital Artist
:iconmorpheuspls: What if you woke up one day and you were a baby again, and your whole life you have lived so far up til now was just a dream? A dream that you remember clearly to the greatest detail? What if you had to "grow up" again? What would you do?

Would you try to relive life as closely to the one you lived before in your "dream"? Would you try to erase your past memories and live the remainder of your life forgetting everything that happened in the "past"?

Or would you use the knowledge you gained from this "dream", and change the course of your life altogether to do things differently, like a second chance? Or maybe you'd choose to do nothing?

What would you do? Think about it.
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~420francisco May 9, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I would be like "oh, this shit again?" and go throught my whole chilhood again the same way I did the first time
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*KoutaTheCreator May 9, 2013  Student Digital Artist
:nuu: The same exact way??
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~Jennuitte May 4, 2013  Student Digital Artist
I'd probably do the same things I've done up to now, because otherwise the things I'm happy with today may not be the same.
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*KoutaTheCreator May 4, 2013  Student Digital Artist
That's good. :nod:
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`Lilyas May 1, 2013  Professional Interface Designer
I've read a book once that described this kind of sceanrio. God (or was it the devil?) gave a man the chance to repeat his life and restart at any stage he wanted with the experiences he had gained so far. The man believed that it was his wife you screwed up his life and so he decided not to meet her and went a couple of years back in time to a moment before then. He went to other places and did other things than before. The funny thing is he met her anyway and not only that, he also married her again. What does it tell us? No matter how far we would be able to go back in time and choose another path and fill our lifes with totally different content - the result will be always the same. It's hard to explain but somehow that makes sense to me. Because when you come into the world you are not like a blank sheet of paper - you already carry your own story, your own personal aspects and predispositions that points into a rough direction in your life's journey. Another issue I see is that people tend to say they would avoid the bad experiences they made before just like the previous commenter suggested. Maybe exactly those bad experiences are necessary to evolve this extraordinary persons that we are today. And if you don't feel extraordinary I guess removing the obstacles on the path of your life at an early stage wouldn't change that anyway.
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*KoutaTheCreator May 1, 2013  Student Digital Artist
Oooh, that's really interesting? What book was it that you read? That's true, all experiences make a person who they are. Both the good and the bad come together to define who a person is, or will become. :nod:
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`Lilyas May 1, 2013  Professional Interface Designer
Biography: A Game by Max Frisch is the name of the book.

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In this play by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch, a middle-aged behavioral researcher named Kurmann is given the opportunity to start his life over at any point he chooses and change his decisions and actions in matters both serious and mundane. He could save his marriage, become politically active, take better care of his health, or even change the color of his living-room furniture. Despite his intention to apply the wisdom he has acquired with age, Kurmann finds himself inexorably trapped in the same decisions. Ultimately proving fatal, Kurmann's life-game interrogates how much of our own path is shaped by seemingly random factors and how much is in fact predetermined by our own limited, conditioned selves. The play's central idea - that our lives are nothing but a self-conscious play with imaginary identities - is brilliantly captured in Biography's dramaturgical form, which sets up a theater rehearsal as the metaphor for the endless possibilities and variables of the game of life. Frisch's own revised, dramatically heightened version of his play celebrates not only the theater as a form of self-expression but also the human condition in all its potential and limitations as it showcases both comic and tragic outcomes that define all our lives.

It's looong time ago that I read it but I still remember it. It had a great impact on me.
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*KoutaTheCreator May 2, 2013  Student Digital Artist
That sounds like an interesting read. Everything has a constant and variable.

I enjoy media and literature like that. That book also reminds me of the story from Bioshock Infinite somewhat.
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~DakotaDante Apr 27, 2013  New member
If I woke and I was a baby, then my brain would have shrunk a couple sizes smaller, and all the wiring and progress it made would revert back to infant state. So I don't think I would even remember my old life or anything at all.
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