So a magic genie gives you this option: You can relive the absolutely best year of your life (year being any 365 days, not a calendar year), but you also have to relive the worst year of your life (ditto). If you choose to do so, you can also pick the order (good/bad or bad/good).
What do you do?
Ick. No way, absolutely not, forget it. I’m not going through that again, nothing’s worth that.
No way in the world.
I don’t remember ever having a really bad year, so bring it on!
When you say “relive,” do you mean that essentially you’re just an observer in your own body, unable to change or even influence events, if you actually retain knowledge of the future as you relive these times? Or can you try to change things, in both the good and bad times, for the better (which more than likely means you trade away bad mistakes for possibly even worse mistakes)?
If I retained knowledge of my own personal future, and was in essence my present consciousness inhabiting an earlier version of my body during the years in question, then I go with a cautious 'Yes." I would try to change things, ever mindful of the Butterfly Effect. Still and all, I voted “Yes, I don’t care in which order,” but my real vote is “Yes With Stipulations.”
Absolutely not. I had a few years that were really bad by any standard. The downside to life can much more extreme than any upside. It wouldn’t be worth it.
My worst year was probably one of the high school years. Perhaps the one when my hair was set on fire on the school bus and nobody cared. Actually, they did care a bit - they complained to me about the awful smell. As if I had chosen to have my hair set on fire by a psychopath.
So, no, I will not choose to relive any bit of my life if I have to relive the hair-on-fire thing too.
Oh HELL no!
Sure. I’ve had some bad years, but I’ve gotten through them.
The best year was pretty freakin’ awesome, and I’d love to live it again. The first 9 months of it, anyway.
I haven’t had a year that was great enough to be worth reliving even if there was no downside. I also don’t have a year that’s bad enough that I wouldn’t want to relive it, in general it sounds like a waste of time so I’ll pass.
Agreed. No way, no how. Fugheddaboutit.
No, no way. Not for anything would I relive certain events. And the good year is still just as good in memory, and it wouldn’t be worth the pain of the bad.
I would hate to see what’s been deemed as the ‘best’ year of my life. I’m assuming that we don’t get to pick the best and worst times, right? It would just be what the genie said “yep, sucks to be you” and “This is the best you’ve done so far”. So no, it sounds like going from bad to worse.
I can’t think of a single reason why I would want to do this.
Nope. I’ve had good and bad; enjoyed them all. Why would I want to relive any when the next one might be better than the previous best?
I hate reruns.
Nah. I might not have a year as good as my best year, but I probably won’t have one as bad as my worst. So I’ll just take what comes.
Joe
Not a good deal. I’ll pass.
There are no words which can fully capture exactly how unappealing the idea is to me.
The worst one so far? Sure. That would be sometime during junior high or my first couple of years of high school, I think, and while there were some pretty hellish moments, there were also plenty of nice ones.
On the other hand, I’m not sure that I’d take a chance on reliving the worst year that I’ll ever have, not knowing in advance when it will be or what it will be like.