Philosophy Second chances?

Are you ready for some deep thinking?

Let's say at birth everyone was given a second chance. You can use it anytime you would want but you can only use it once. Is there a time you would have liked to use it? or would you hold onto it?

 

I really don't understand what you mean by "second chance" but im assuming its the chance to start over. I would hold on to it....just for the simple fact that i want to know whats ahead. If its bad well, ill use it...

 

I think I would use it during childhood, maybe to mend a broken friendship. I really don't think I would have the ability to comprehend that I could really need it for something else later on in life.. Which would really suck. Like every single thing that goes wrong I would say "crap, I could have saved that second chance and used it for this!"

And it would be hard to realize if I need to have a second chance with something. For example, maybe if I didn't break up with that one girlfriend I wouldn't be able to meet the right woman for me, kind of thing.

There are some things that I would want to change, though. Like maybe if I knew a friend of mine was going to be poisoned and die from food he or she ate I could go back and tell them not to eat it.

But, should we tamper with how events have unfolded? Maybe you could have stopped that friend from eating that poisonous food but later he or she becomes a serial killer and takes out like 20 people.

 

I doubt that we would maintain this "second chance" for long. I was thinking...as children we say and do stupid things when we are angry. I think that we would end up wasting it on a dispute or a mistake.

 

I agree with That Guy! We never will know when we'll 'really' need it or if our action will be 'better' than just keeping it the way it is. In my short existence, only 18 times around the sun, I am not really interested in this 'Second Chance' thing. Actually, for me this is like 'Life after Death', one of the many human fears that we have to deal almost all time.

 

If i had a secind chance i think i would use it to revisit my childhood, and encourage myself to go out more then i used to (and get up to more mischeif ).
Other then that i can't really think of anything else that i would want to use it on. I think it would probably be a better idea to wait until your a lot older then see if theres anything you would want to fix or try and do something that you wish you hadn't.

 

if the "second chance" means starting all over again i would only use it at my last breath of air! i want to live my life to the end and see everything it as to offer. but if you think... this life as still much to get into. even if some of the things are bad, we still have the good ones to comfort us and give us hope to carry on.

 

I honesty think I would still have it. I am a deep thinker even when I was younger. But there was this one time I fell three times in seperate mud puddles on my way to school. But my mom wrote me a note.

There is something I would change now. But that could destroy the best thing I have now. It is hard to know when I'll need it the most. There are things said and actions done that evereyone want to change. But in reality we can't. But when given the one chance to change something. It would suck.

I noticed that someone said they would save it until they died. I was thinking that to. But what if you died and you had a friend (ultimate friend) that was mad at you or going to die too. You had a choice to change what happened with your friend or yourself. It would be so hard. I have one person that I would protect with everything that I have.

And if what you did could cause worse things to happen would also be hard. Let's say you saved yourself from death and then your were driving and someone else died. I don't know how I could live with something like that.

 

this might sound shallow but this question reminds me of Donny darko.. i never watched the movie and when i did it just astounded me the kind of thing our hearts would go through just in the decision between ourselfs or those around use, it all depends on either if we want to live or we want others to live for us... that is what i belive

 

nothing to add to that... exactly...
if we could start all over again i would live my life to the end and then i would start again... at least i would be able to do everything in my first life with my own thoughts and also with the element of surprise... and then i would begin again and have a normal life but fixing the bad things i've done in the past life. it's kind of a game... i only use cheats for a game after playing everything the game as to offer.

 

I say the exact same thing. Before 'that' time, if I changed anything, even the most minor change, it could destroy everything my life has become. I am who I am because of what I was, because of what I have done. If I had lived my life a certain way, or if I had stopped something bad from happening to me, I would not be who I am today. The effects extrapolate as you go further back. For example, if I hadn't accepted right away when I got my job at Safeway, I could have gotten another, full time job. But, With that particular one, I would have much less time to myself, and, among other things, I would not have made as strong an impression here. (In fact, I would have disappeared a month or two into my membership, because I wouldn't have had a computer to go on)

Considering what I said in this thread, that would be a change I regret. It's a similar story when you look further back. Every change, no matter how small, can have huge effects on the world.

I think, basically, this thread is asking "Do you have any regrets in your life?"

So far, I do not. I am glad, indeed, proud, of the way my life has turned out so far, and I would not change a single thing about it, to this date. (Even something trivial, like that horrendously stupid post of mine a while back, I wouldn't change) For it with our mistakes, that we learn. With the errors we make, we learn how to not make them again. To erase an error, to have it not happen, would be to simply postpone it. In the case of that post, (which is, luckily, now altered into a much better form) I have learned more about what I should and should not post, and I have learned that some things, no matter how funny they may seem at the time, can always cause problems, if someone reacts in a way you didn't intend.

Anyway, the fact is, I am happy with my life the way it is, and, even though I've made my mistakes, and had my share of pain, I would not change any of it, for any reason. I am happy the way I am.

 

Something happened that i really didnt like, so i would say yes, i would take a second chance. But unfortunately, we are not given second chance at life, so i guess i have to live with it

 

Imagine just using it and ending just worse than what we are now. Ive thought about it and I would say I would use it only in a life threatning situation.

 

I am starting to write soemthing on this topic. Very intresting I think so.

See I don't believe in love. It is just a four letter word that we put meaning to. So I would deffinately not change anything there.

I did lose contact with some good friends of mine. I may want to go back and change that. But what if I was to make their life worse? I am not the best person but I am not exactly the worest person either.

Diffantely life threatening issue. But if I saved my life and someone else died could I live with that? What if I became a killer over anything?

The worest part would be knowing what you changed. Because after you change it the pain, the hurt, and anything else would still be there. I would hate to change something and know what could have happened.

I honestly think sometimes I would change the best thing in my life. Just because I could. I am not very good at keeping things or staying with things. See once I changed that I would know what it was like. And I run. So I know I would. I know that it might not happen again. I need to give it a try. But I would still have this great feeling. And to me it would be worth changing. And if I am the only one who felt it. Do any of you get what I am saying here?

 

I understand what you're saying Basher. And I kinda agree with you but would one really know that they'd change. If one wanted to change something in order for them to live that change wouldn't they have to not know what happened the other way? Or would they know just enough to set that change in motion or if they do carry the knowledge of that change then yea... i think that would suck. I personally wouldn't be able to change anything in my life b/c it's made me who i am today and i wouldn't want to change that... at least not at this point of my life.