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Would you rather have a rewind button or a pause button on your life?

User Profile: Kate
Kate September 27th, 2018

Would you rather have a rewind button or a pause button on your life?

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User Profile: ahealingEndoftherainbow22
ahealingEndoftherainbow22 September 27th, 2018

Pause button so that I can take a moment and reflect.

User Profile: wonderfulIceCream92
wonderfulIceCream92 September 27th, 2018

a rewind button!

User Profile: silverMelody25
silverMelody25 September 27th, 2018

@Kate I would probably choose a pause button, so that i could reflect before i make a choice .

User Profile: rainontherooftop
rainontherooftop September 27th, 2018

pause so i can stay even a few extra moments in a happy setting

User Profile: somecoldtoast
somecoldtoast September 27th, 2018

a pause button, so I can take moments to reflect and fully enjoy certain moments more.

User Profile: fantasticdreamer66
fantasticdreamer66 September 27th, 2018

Well rewind button is gonna be useless because when you rewind situation your thoughts will be rewound too and you'll find yourself doing what you've done before again and you'll be stuck in an infinite loop and If I have a pause button to pause happy moments I'll never get to have the next happy moment which it'll might be happier

September 27th, 2018

Rewinding sounds nice until considering the likelihood that altering the past changes the present too much. There are things I like the way they are, even if going back means I wouldn't know better. I had to go through those things to get to now.

But I would be really happy to pause a lot more often. I'm so impulsive and quick to think the worst—I could use that extra time to stop and process.

User Profile: queserasera90
queserasera90 September 27th, 2018

Id probably want to rewind. Do things differently and take more control of my life back then.

User Profile: yoman31201
yoman31201 September 27th, 2018

I would rather have a pause button instead of a rewind button. I believe that our past shapes us into who we are and by rewinding, it would get rid of that.

User Profile: malena292
malena292 September 27th, 2018

If I had to choose between having a rewind button or a pause button, I'd choose the rewind button.

Why?

Although pausing a situation is really helpful, my personality would lead me to just do something without much thinking, without giving me time to ponder and then choose. I tend to be quite impulsive.

Therefore, being able to revise and correct whatever it is I did wrong would be an extremely useful tool for me to use.

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User Profile: malena292
malena292 September 27th, 2018

Nice question, by the way!

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