Emerging briefly from the deep, black-hole-esque (wow! three hyphens within one word…albeit a made up one, but still cool nonetheless) realms of study and revision, I would like to ask a question.
Imagine (doesn’t that just conjure up images of different languages being mispronounced by a large mass of people?) *cough* I’ll try that again. Imagine that it’s many decades from now, and, we’re (brace yourselves) not teenagers anymore!!! You are approached by someone. I can’t be bothered to make up a full backstory for this fictitious person, so let’s just go with: his names Algernon, he’s 38, 5’11, is partial to the colour purple, and has invented a time machine. This is no ordinary time machine however (yes, long gone are the days of piffling normal over the counter time machines) it allows you to go back and actually re-live and experience your teenage years again. To prevent paradoxes and the such (and I know I’ve had this argument in a previous post, but I’m going to go with the time is fragile theory as opposed to the logical, actually makes sense and has backup argument theory) you can’t actually change anything, but you will be actually re-living your own past, moment by moment.
Just suspend the complexities of teenage life for a moment, and simplify it down to two aspects: school and social. Theoretically we have a balance of these…but anyways, negate all the negative sides of social, as (supposedly) it is the positives that stick with us, and are what we’d rather think about, if we’re being optimistic (off on a tangent for a moment…is the glass half full or half empty? Have you noticed that generally when people ask you this there is no glass!!! ) Anyways, coming to the question.
You are offered a day, a month, a year, whatever, take your pick, of re-living your teenage years. This means an opportunity to experience again all the funny things that happen in class, go out on the weekend with your friends, do all the stuff that you remember, in essence memories. (wow, I’m really starting to sound like one of those books of motivational stories that motivational speakers use to attempt to motivate an unmotivatable group of students too early on a Monday morning) But the trade off is, you have to re-live all the work too. That means that you have to study for tests you’ve already done, repeat all your maths exercises and do the English Connected Text essay again.
So, really the question is: Would you be willing to re-do all your work in order to re-live your memories? (that was badly worded, but meh)
9 comments:
is the glass half full or half epty? well it depends on wats in the glass...is it a liquid is it gravel is it used for sacrificial purposes...by this point in time the person who has asked the question has run away screaming...
also dont u think that pesamists should be half full nad optomists half empty i mean seriously if u think about it the thought of it only being half full means that ur hopes will never aspire to wat it once was where as if its half empty it will reach its goal...mmm hard to explain wat im getting at but i know that its right i have proof i tell u proof
lol
nice work elizabeth...
and what on earth is the point of going back in time if u cant change anything?! lol. ok so if we could change stuff or live it differently or whatever then yes i'd go back... if not... no way!!! :D
and imagine.... *twitch* lol that was soooo bad!!
hey fluxo, what's the new word of the month? can i think of one? can it be a phrase? can it be 'as it is wont to do'?! lol i rly wana use that one [i used it 2nite, it was fun :P]
Sure - sounds fair enough...I forgot to post about the last one...I think it was "drivel." anyways...I'm depressed about NCIS :(
why, what happened on NCIS?
and woot!! lol
lol NCIS yes i own their asses...wait diffferent convo...damn...but yeah i finally won a bet against u yay...ill send the book ova sometime next week... oh a good word is defenistration
I interestin question you pose. What it depends on, is if your teen-hood second time round decides your future like the first time. If after teenageness we were just going to fast forward again to our regular lives, then it would not matter if you did badly in your work. This means you get to re-live all the memories (both good and bad) but just do a slack job in the work or not worry bout handing it in. If this was the case.. then yes, I would want to. So many awesome things that have happened that will just never happen again, and it would be fantastic to be able to live them again
i dont even know wat i really mean...well the 1st comment was a bill baley quote...(i love bill baley) and the 2nd comment was just random...
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