• themeatbridge
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    22 years ago

    I’m 42. Does everyone get a pill? My wife? My kids? My parents?

    Jumping back 20 years puts me out of sync with everyone I care about. I’m not sure I’d even want it.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      That’s a good point. You kinda lose your kids once you take the pill. On the flip side though, who’s putting who in the nursing home now?

  • BeautifulMind ♾️
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    12 years ago

    I’d take it today. I’m in my 50s, I’m an endurance athlete (I race bikes) and the calculus looks like: if I wait 20 years I get to experience body-age 50-70 twice, but if I take it now I experience 30-50 twice. Living my prime twice is better than enduring my decline twice, thanks

  • Savaran
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    12 years ago

    50s. Getting back to one’s 30s you’re still old enough for people to take you seriously, but the creaking bones and exhaustion hasn’t really started creeping in yet.

  • @[email protected]
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    12 years ago

    I’m tempted to say 40, so I can relive the most physically fit part of my life, but maybe I should wait until I’m really old. Not sure

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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      32 years ago

      Yeah stick with 40. What are you gonna do, be like “yeah it feels great being only 50 years again! Glad I passed up having a second twenties.” If you heard someone say that you’d think they were insane.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        02 years ago

        True, but I was a doofus in my twenties. I suppose it depends if we get to keep our collected wisdom/lack of fucks or not

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    2 years ago

    I’d take it right now.

    I’m not married, not dating, and have no kids.

    Getting 20 years back means I can correct a lot of mistakes and I’ll have way more energy and focus to be the me I want to be. My 20s were so stressful I started getting white hair.