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What would you do with a second chance? (lemmy.world)
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[–] IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I'd do a lot of the same, but in different ways. I don't want to mess up and miss out on my pets and all the other wonderful things that have happened to me, but I would try to live a better/less fucked life.

Try harder in school, achieve some modicum of success so I'm not such a loser, and fix my biggest, less consequential regrets. Nothing that would be life-changing, but would make me feel less guilty at least. I would do more to help the pets I couldn't save (2 babies taken too soon) and I would try to just live more, and not be as much of a shut-in homebody.

Probably try not to become an alcoholic too.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'd do a lot of the same, but in different ways

there are different ways to eat a nickel?

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf -2 points 2 weeks ago

Try harder in school, achieve some modicum of success so I’m not such a loser

... by some measure, the trying harder in school is what makes one a loser.

I think most of the very successful people I know, left school early.

I wish I'd realised earlier what bunk school [including college] is. 3 times they bait-n-switched me offering one course next year, then doing something different (from Chemistry and the entire periodic table to just hydrocarbons, from art to knitting, from digital arts to web design). In that first year after I table-flipped on formal education, I learned more on my own (with an internet connection and a library card) than I had in the entire prior 14 years of formal education. [(And in that 14 years, they never figured out I'm dyslexic! + other horror stories.)]

2nd chance, no chance I'd stay in school. (Not just because I already retained skills and memory from it, but because I know now it's bunk and I can do at least 14 times better myself.).