Strange Question

[dtel]

 

 

 

 

Or the reply that never happened.........

[jwc]

No.  I wish I hadn't followed so many rules and "do what you should do".  I should have followed dreams and first instincts.   However, doing this, I could have spent a lifetime in jail. 

[Islander]

What bothered me about the story was that the protagonist felt that everything he did was pointless, since it would all come to nothing when he died yet again.

That's sorta the point of the question...but, if when you died, the clock reset to zero and everything happened exactly as it did the first time, and every time for all eternity--would you be happy with that--let's do it again, exactly as it was before?  If no, don't just sit around and mope, start making changes.

No, his actions in each life were very different, so I didn't agree with his complaint. He was able to use his knowledge of the future to amass fortunes in each life, but he never did it the same way twice.

[Jim Naseum]

My attitude is that if you start to say "what if (things had gone differently/I had chosen to do things differently/and so on, and so on)", you logically have to say "what if (everything)".

For example, if you think "What if I had become a Formula 1 driver?", you think of the fame and the fortune and the fun of the job, but what if you got killed in your first race? Or if you had become a rock star? You might have died in a helicopter crash, before you got to buy a yacht or marry a supermodel.

Not having a high income means it's unlikely that I'll die in a Ferrari crash or a heli-skiing accident, so that's a benefit of not being rich.

There's a novel that explores the possibilities that come with living several lives. It's called "Replay", by Ken Grimwood, and I found it to be a fascinating read. "Groundhog Day" was sort of a dumbed-down lightweight version of it.

What bothered me about the story was that the protagonist felt that everything he did was pointless, since it would all come to nothing when he died yet again. I take the opposite view, that having so many chances at life is an amazing blessing.

Here's the Wiki page on the story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_(Grimwood_novel)

In an odd twist, the author died of a heart attack at age 59 (the book's character kept dying of heart attacks at age 43), while working on a sequel to the novel. There was no replay for him.

Or maybe he's now in a different time stream from this one. The possibilities are endless.

There's another way to say this. It goes something like this: don't confuse your life's circumstances with your life.

Your circumstances are just your place, your job, your home, your property and all the rest of the material aspects of life. Whereas your life is the internal essential spirit and mind which guides your trip through the material world.

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