What If Friday – Redo

As customary on Friday today’s topic is coming direct and in full effect from If (Questions for the Game of life).  As I sit in Syracuse, NY and play If with my best friend this blog is officially coming together! It was hard to pick just one question today but I hunkered down and made a decision… enjoy and as always feel free to share your answers!

Question: If you had to identically repeat any single year of your life to date, without changing a thing, which year would you relive?

So there many years I enjoyed but none completely enough to relive! Most of the 80s and early 90s I would avoid primarily because of bad fashion! Seriously!!!!  Then there is high school, which I was not the biggest fan of, mainly because I worked like a slave trying to get into college (clubs, sports, school work, and an actual job). If I would have known I was going to end up at UGA I might have relaxed a little and snuck out of the house more!

Then there is college, which for the most part is a haze but I made some pretty bad decisions in college and continued to overwork myself so I wouldn’t exactly want to relive it. Some things are better left forgotten (thanks alcohol for helping me leave the past in the past). 

Then I graduated into my mid-20s and lived a roller coaster of health woes, job stress, weight fluctuation, family drama, financial freakiness, and a slew of murder mysteries (books that is)! There are many moments I would like to burn from my memory and a few I would love to just relive over and over but alas I have to pick an entire year! With all of that said I think I would chose my first year of life (1983 -1984) for several reasons including:

1. I don’t remember it
2. I survived it without health issues or major sickness
3. I was still an only child and the apple of my parents’ eye
4. My only joys were eating and sleeping (like now in my adult life but the difference is people expected me to do it without dirty looks)
5. People waited on me hand and foot
6. I was adorable even when I cried
7. No working/ No job
8. I didn’t have to wear pants (I’m definitely anti-pants)
9. The world was amazing and new (now I’m just shocked and appalled with it)
10. Binge Eating – yes I could eat whatever I wanted and gaining weight was appropriate
11. Perfect skin (soft like my bottom)
12. I was too young to know the true impact of Reaganomics
13. Boys were a non-mutha f’in factor (phrase as learned from reality tv)

So now you know my answer! I’m going to go back to this 90210 (the original) marathon, grab some sour patch kids, and at some point visit the streets of downtown Syracuse!  See ya next blog!