The second time is the charm | Imagine reliving your life again

What if you can experience your entire life for a second time.

You can’t change anything, but you get to relive those emotions, and those memories.

It’s an interesting concept but I imagine it would take some technological advancement.

But I feel like it would change how we look at a lot of things especially when we look back.

It would be different than what we replayed in our head so many times.

Maybe the memory we had wasn’t that big of a deal at all.

But here’s what I think would happen.

Appreciation for moments

There is so much beauty in our lives when we actually go and look at it.

Similar to a character being able to rewatch a documentary about themselves, we’ll notice that there is just so much more.

We just didn’t notice it at the time because we were caught up in an emotion. Thinking about something that, if we think about it now, doesn’t really matter.

Because that’s what life is. We have moments that happen, and we can choose to experience it and live in the present or be troubled by something in the past or future.

Perhaps it’s not too late to begin realizing these moments as they’re happening. To just bask in the glory and enjoy the moment for the first time instead of the second.

Intense self analysis

Something that would also come from living your life a second time is self-analysis.

Looking at yourself from a third person perspective and analyze yourself.

See what makes you happy, and what makes you sad.

And you can tell when you’re genuinely happy versus perceived happiness.

But I think you’ll realize more about yourself than you may think.

You’ll analyze and think about what you were thinking at the time.

Perhaps how it led to certain actions. How things could have been different had your decisions been another way.

As a human behaviour enthusiast, I think this would be incredible.

We’ll be able to look at our past self, and introduce our present thought process to the situation.

Taking a second look at everything

I think that we’d be able to take a look at our life thus far, and realize the second time around that it maybe wasn’t as bad as it was in our heads.

Perhaps there were situations that drove our heads to a negative headspace.

But in the grand scheme of things, life wasn’t that bad.

Maybe the real beauty was in the every day that we lived instead of the battles we dreamed up in our heads.

Would you live your life for a second time?

Let me know in the comments!

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Thank you so much for reading.

Love always,

Alex