so ... i'm being forced to relive a single year of my life over and over again. the bright side is that i get to choose which year. i, of course, have questions first. for these questions, let's assume i'm reliving the year that started with my 16th birthday.
- would i be reliving 16 with the knowledge i have now? or am i literally reliving it as i lived it the first time?
- if i am reliving it as i did the first time, i'd never know i was reliving it, right? because it would feel as new to me the 67th time as it did the first.
- if i didn't know i was reliving it, would it really be that good/bad of a thing? would i be enjoying it at all?
so ... here are my rules. i will choose a year (again, let's assume 16) and relive it for the rest of my life IF ...
- i can relive 16 with the knowledge i have now.
- all knowledge gained during the reliving is kept for subsequent relivings.
- only the knowledge gained is kept. physical features/circumstances always revert back to how they were on the original day 1. (thus if i break my neck during reliving #7, it is no longer broken when i cycle back to day 1 in reliving #8.)
- all changes from the original 16 to the reliving of 16 don't distort the space/time continuum, causing my family to disappear from photographs or go bald at an early age.
yeah, i think those simple rules would make the constant reliving of a single year more bearable. i mean, imagine living one year repeatedly, knowing you're living it repeatedly for the rest of your life, but having no free will to change things up each time to relive it. that, my friends, would be horrible. and boring.
i would choose october 2009 through september 2010. (did you really think i'd relive 16?) i could choose a new way to leave my job each year. i would get to celebrate st. patrick's day in san francisco each year. and i'd have summer vacation to spend however i wanted. yup. that would be my year.
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1 comment:
I do think your crazy. :) And I KNEW you weren't going to pick 16. I was just glad after all of that you actually answered the question.
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