3. [WP]You wake up in the body of your younger self with all the memories of your f...

[WP]You wake up in the body of your younger self with all the memories of your future self

This doesn't feel fair to me. I mean, I'm only sixteen; I don't regret anything yet. Sure, there are some things I look back on with little more than dread, but they were all learning experiences, and none that I can remember were my fault anyway. Heck, I probably couldn't change most of them if I tried.

Besides which, there are things I didn't know went on in my early childhood that I see so clearly now it hurts. Again, how is this fair? What's the point? Every day now, I look at my parents and actually notice the bitter looks. Then, the other day, my cousin came over and I saw a similar demeanor in her parents as well.

Last Sunday, after church, I went to my room and cried for an hour. When my mother found me and asked what was wrong, I couldn't tell her I didn't believe anymore. All I could think about were the years she would spend trying to convince herself life is worth living, and how I never really saw the end of it.

I can hear my parents shouting at each other in the other room. I never thought much of it when I was really this age, but now I just want to run over there and tell them to get a divorce already.

I sit through every day, trying to realize why I'm back here. It's not like I've wronged anyone really bad or stood by and watched something horrible happen. I've never done anything and regretted the outcome that I can remember, at least not for long. I guess I like being able to play old Mario games with my dad again, but really how worth it is that? Everyone around me is emotionally unstable in some way; the fact that I can see it now is suffocating.

I wonder if the point of all this is to show me that I should have regrets. Should I regret this? Should I wish I'd seen it all before? The only thing I regret right now is ending up here, and I had no control, no choice. Am I supposed to regret my inabilities? Am I dreaming? I wonder what would happen if I told everyone about the future.

But I don't want to change my past.

What am I supposed to be doing here?

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