You wake up in your 16 y/o body and the year you were that age. You have all of your current memories and abilities. What do you do with your life?

I’d have done way better in history now that I’ve traveled the world a bit.

Way, way easier to remember geography when you’ve been there.

Also the self knowledge would be insane, turns out I have a great dispassion for geology that will likely never change which I discovered in college. If I could have known that about myself and just zoned out anytime geology was being mentioned that could have saved me a lot of energy and grief. One of my strong suits is my curiosity for life so it really threw me into a state of despair and affected the rest of my education.

Also I probably would have tried to actually make friends with the senior quarterback who said hi to me on the first day of class. And probably tried to date the class valedictorian, in retrospect I think we could have been good together. Instead I went out with his friend. I think I actually could have been really popular and/or had lots of friends if I knew then what I know now.

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