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The ending was so bittersweet...

posted 8 years ago by marr-justinm
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Just the fact that Alan and Sarah where able to live their lives over again starting at a young age with their current experience. People who were dead by then such as Alan's father were still alive because situations that stressed them to death were avoided. If only I could live my life over from the age of 12 or so again, I would change so much. I'm only 20 and I know what I'd change, who know what they'd do with all their experience being in their late 30s/early 40s. People say "just be happy today, in the now" but today's world sucks compared to when I was growing up. Don't try to tell me that it doesn't.

[–] jobie123 8 years ago

I won't tell you that it doesn't but I wouldn't go back. Very happy with my life today. My childhood was miserable.

[–] WilliamUK 8 years ago

That's a tough one. Things seem a lot worse these days (I'm no historian, I have a weak mental capacity to store data :/ ) thanks to the Internet - they call it 'bad world syndrome' or something, it came up in the news not long ago. Basically, it says that we are swamped with all the bad news of the world in a convenient and efficient way: your web browser. I'm barely touching the news these days and as each day passes I find myself thinking more and more of the past.

Guess that's the 'out of sight, out of mind' mentality. But yeah, if I could back I'd do nothing but earn money, get myself and family secured in better housing and so on. At 44 it took me far too long to grasp basic levels of plumbing, electrical, housekeeping etc, didn't take a driving test until 36 and must have spent around seven years on welfare. Almost as if it took me at least 25 years to become self-aware. Silly, but that's how it feels.

[–] agentpfan 8 years ago

I know what you mean, I wish the same thing. It's starting to feel a lot like we're on the brink of the kind of dystopian future we've always heard about. I'd love to be able to go back like Alan and Sarah did with full knowledge of my life, and change everything I could.

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[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7734) 7 years ago

I like the way some things are now. When I was a kid, my parents wouldn't let me play video games except for educational computer games. As an adult I was finally able to play whatever video games I wanted. There are also some bad memories from when I was a kid. Like the first 2 months of 5th grade when my teacher wasn't doing her job and just assigned every subject as homework to the point where I had no time to have fun. Til my parents pulled me out of school and home schooled me since all my lessons were being done at home anyway. And especially my freshman year when I went back to public school where these people who had years before been my friends were now verbally bullying me and other kids were verbally bullying me as well. Then the only friend I had in that highschool suddenly died of a seizure. Then later after being home schooled for my sophomore year I ended up going back to public school and experienced more verbal bullying. Good riddance to those times!