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If you could wake up tomorrow as anybody ? Anyone you wanted- who would you wake as ? Why? (jlai.lu)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/journaling

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While we're waiting for reactions or comments regarding the future of the community, here is a nice prompt I just stumbled upon on the r/journaling.

If I had this power, I would wake up as… me.

A much younger me, though. Aged 11 or so, when I started making real life-changing decisions. I would wake as this young-me but with all I know and all I have experienced during the almost 50 years that have passed since that time.

I’m not talking about knowing in advance what to study and what job to get (and which ones to avoid) nor where to invest some money (even though that would not be a bad idea :p). Just the intimate knowledge of all I did wrong, and why I did it. What I did well, and how I could do it better. Simply put, I would try to help younger-me become a better person.

Making wrongs rights would be top-priority. Helping me hurt less people around me. Hurt myself a little less, too. I would also encourage myself to care a lot more about a few of those people. And to tell them much more loudly they’re important.

I would not advise myself against those few real bad persons I have met along the way. Most of them, even if unknowingly, helped me learn valuable lessons. Maybe except one, that did real long lasting harm. Maybe.

Lastly, I would tell myself to not waste as much time as I did. Life is short and I wasted so much of it. Not as much because I was being lazy (I was, at times) but because I always wanted to experiment as much as I could in life, I wanted to have lived something before deciding if that something was worth it. I would instead encourage young-me to focus much more on a selected few meaningful experiences, ignoring all the others.

Maybe I would fail at changing myself, stubborn as I was? No idea ;)

What about you? Who would you be? And why?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Trump. I would absolutely hate myself, but to be able to reverse everything could do so much good for the world and humanity as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Maybe, doing good, you would then learn not to hate yourself :)

[–] allo 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You at age 12 and I would suddenly change all behaviors and tell everyone for infinite years I'm a spirit or ghost possessing this body.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You may regret being in my body, back then. Just sayin'. But who am I to question the choice of a spirit?

Also, do me this favor and tell me to not kiss S....e, at that stupid party. I would very much appreciate. In exchange, I promise to not constantly resist with all my strength to being possessed :P

[–] allo 1 points 5 days ago

deal. lol

[–] xtr0n 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That was such a thoughtful and meaningful answer. Now I feel kinda silly saying that it would be fun to be Rihana for a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Thx. Imho, having fun is nothing silly. For me, that would be waking up as Jim Carrey — I am very shy and could never imagine be an actor myself, and I also can't accept that the guy never got an Academy Award, he is such a great comedian :)