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Be upset, my son wasn’t born until I was 32 and both my children have the same dad. I wouldn’t do anything that would give me different children or that would mess with the lives they have.
Since I have the same knowledge, does that mean I have my RN and able to support my 2 year old daughter.
Given that the woman I was married to at 30 would have to be dead, I’d probably mope around the house on the day and a half I had at home on the weekends and relish the traveling job I had on the weekdays that kept me busy pretty much 19 hours a day.
Find my second husband, marry him 15 years earlier, have a very, very, very fulfilling honeymoon, and have a wonderful rest of my life with him !! 💖💖💖💖
Immediately start working out a ton. At that age I was doing some really light exercise but not much. Now I’m super fit and strong from multiple sports.
Also I would have known why marriage would implode a few years later and taken the steps to prevent it.
Specifications unclear. Do we wake up on this date in (year whatever) with our body then but our mind now? Or do we wake up tomorrow with the body of our 30 year old self?
Bahahaha brace for impact. Two weeks after I turned 30, I was in the hospital on my deathbed. Waking up at 30 would’ve been too late to make any changes to prevent it, so basically all I’d do differently is head straight to the hospital and prepare to relive hell.
Pick up my baseball glove, bat, and head to the field with my teammates to play in our elite slowpitch softball league. Then off to a player’s house for pizza, neer, and good cheer. A perfect way to end the day for a 30 yr old who thinks like an 80 yr old.
Wow. I got married a few months after turning 30. If I had those months to stop myself from doing that, I’d save myself a lot of money & heart break. Then I’d get into yoga & lead a great life!
Jump out of bed at 6 am and not stop moving! I’d go for a long walk. Paint the hallway. Have everyone over for dinner, dogs included. Laugh my head off until I turned into a pumpkin at midnight.
Seize the day. Now I mostly seize the remote. It’s amazing how hard aging has turned out to be.
30 was a pivotal time for me. Any move to the left or right would change where I am right now. I guess I would have just calmed tf down after the divorce and gone back to school. Still had to work but I’d get out of my toxic job and find something else through the college. Work on me, not go out and date a lot. I probably could have gone to medical school so I would have aimed for that. I had zero support from family so I wish I could have really seen that and had had the confidence to skip through a lot of the bs I put myself through and focus on building my career. I think things would have been so much easier going forward. Life is good now, but I really took the long way around and like I said, the year I turned 30 was a critical time for me.
ETA: I would be so happy to wake up in that body lolol
I’m single now, and at 30 I was single (divorced), obviously not in the same physical condition, but my mindset is basically the same as it was when I was 30. I probably wouldn’t be doing anything differently even with a younger body now.
This is hard to answer because you have not clarified where and when I wake up. Is it just tomorrow in my regular life and situation? Or is it the year and place I was when I was 30?
I think the first thing I would do is turn on some music and dance in my 30 year old body! Then I’d go shopping for some new, better fitting clothes. Then I’d go eat anything I wanted and maybe I’d go for a run.
Seriously though, I don’t know if my current mind wants to live in a 30 year old body.
I go back 5 years? Date the women I knew that were into me and get into IT much sooner. Or take coding much more seriously. Could go either way to be honest as I was just starting my degree path. Definitely keep up with my fitness and check my mental. Get away from my family and start somewhere anew.
With the mind I have now means I know about 9/11 and technological advances. So, divorce my wife, easily invest my way to extreme wealth, be a playboy gadabout, and walk into that same bar 16 years later where I’d meet the love of my life.
Embrace my thirty year old
Body!!!! Exercise like I do now at 45 but at 30! Eat healthy stop drinking and get all the ass you can because you’re confidence is high unlike it was actually when I was younger. In reality when I was 30, I already knew my husband and I was happily in love, but let’s just say I was single or in youth in general. I would’ve been more confident embraced myself, and rocked the shit out of what I had! I’m healthier now than I’ve ever been and more confident, but I really really wish for my old self that it didn’t take me until my 40s to be confident and get rid of fucked up body dysmorphia shit
(1) start the athletic things I do now that I actually started in my 40s, (2) focus on health, such as eating better, drinking less etc, (3) save more money.
Grieve my family, try to find my husband and hopefully conceive my daughter again. But if I didn’t remember them, I’d get fit, try to make as much money as possible and move to the mountains somewhere out west.
I would have kicked the love of my life in the ass and got him in line. I would have gotten my father to help, if need be.
We would have gotten together, within months of my returning to the classroom.
I would’ve gone to law school.
We would’ve had a family together…we’d still be together. My second husband would never have met me, because I only had eyes for one man, from the time I was 24 years old.
I never would’ve stood back and waited, thinking he would come to me. One thing I’ve learned in four decades is that time waits for no man. Or woman, for that matter…
I would not have my second daughter when I was 33. She has a rare form of epilepsy that will take her life one day. (While she is 21 now,20% never make it to the age of 18. I hate seeing her in pain some days no matter what science has to offer. The stress of a medically fragile child cost me my marriage of twenty years and I know it had damaging effects on her older sister.
Don’t get me wrong I love her and she will live with me as long as one of us is alive. I also have plans for her to be taken care of a long time after I am gone with weekly Disney trips if anything happens to me. But the grief is real.
Be very careful with my body so that I never injure my back!! And then sleep around a lot. I was very sexy when I was 30, but did not know it, and had very little sex.
It’s 2006, so I’d Buy stock in Apple, and basically do what Biff did in back to the future 2- bet huge money on all sports results. Then I’d purchase huge whole life insurance policies so id have something to cash out after they mature.
Am I healthy? Have a little money? I would go to school and learn how to write and be a better photographer and then go travel the world as a photo-journalist. Biggest regret of my life.
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Buy bitcoin
Travel ❤️
Go running ( I got sick at age 20 so a younger age is meaningless ) but I’ll take it 🤣
Stay single.
Weep for the loss of the love of my life.
Do I have my 30 year old bank account? Then nothing because I’m fucking broke.
Get into med school while still marry to my wife.
Be upset, my son wasn’t born until I was 32 and both my children have the same dad. I wouldn’t do anything that would give me different children or that would mess with the lives they have.
Since I have the same knowledge, does that mean I have my RN and able to support my 2 year old daughter.
Sleep in
Given that the woman I was married to at 30 would have to be dead, I’d probably mope around the house on the day and a half I had at home on the weekends and relish the traveling job I had on the weekdays that kept me busy pretty much 19 hours a day.
Get another graduate degree or maybe law degree.
Go back and get my masters degree or go to medical school like I intended.
Find my second husband, marry him 15 years earlier, have a very, very, very fulfilling honeymoon, and have a wonderful rest of my life with him !! 💖💖💖💖
Go back to sleep
Take a nap.
Go find my husband.
Drive way up into the deep woods in Canada and dissappear forever.
Try to find my wife
Leave my wife and avoid having 2 more kids and divorcing 17 years later only to start my life over with nothing.
Are we in the here and now? or the past? Big difference.
I’d be going out and getting me some because lawdy it’s been a long time.
Get 8 hours of sleep.
Touch my toes
Immediately start working out a ton. At that age I was doing some really light exercise but not much. Now I’m super fit and strong from multiple sports.
Also I would have known why marriage would implode a few years later and taken the steps to prevent it.
Ease up on the booze
Sex. I now know what good lovers are and I’m going to get me some.
Fight, fuck, foot race
Keep that 30 year old body in the shape it’s in so I never lose it!
Immediately call my ex who passed away and get him the medical treatment he needs
Invest in Apple.
Oh shoot, I’m broke again??
Invest in Amazon, Dell, Apple, and prolly some others.
Don’t marry that guy, stay in school, invest in what I now know is going to be advantageous.
Scour the earth for my husband of 50 years & soul mate.
Mow the lawn.
Specifications unclear. Do we wake up on this date in (year whatever) with our body then but our mind now? Or do we wake up tomorrow with the body of our 30 year old self?
Track down my wife and get busy.
But, failing that, I’d be dangerous.
Go on a 30 mile bike ride with a bunch of my friends. And yes. Stay single!
Invest more each year.
Bahahaha brace for impact. Two weeks after I turned 30, I was in the hospital on my deathbed. Waking up at 30 would’ve been too late to make any changes to prevent it, so basically all I’d do differently is head straight to the hospital and prepare to relive hell.
Get a divorce and move.
Cry
Have fun. Party all night. Enjoy life
I wouldn’t get together with that evil being that robbed me of all those years.
Pick up my baseball glove, bat, and head to the field with my teammates to play in our elite slowpitch softball league. Then off to a player’s house for pizza, neer, and good cheer. A perfect way to end the day for a 30 yr old who thinks like an 80 yr old.
Pee then go back to sleep.
I’ll rule the world.
Wow. I got married a few months after turning 30. If I had those months to stop myself from doing that, I’d save myself a lot of money & heart break. Then I’d get into yoga & lead a great life!
Pfft.
Stay single. Immerse myself in my career. Save. Travel. Give back.
Go find my husband and enjoy that extra 10 years with him.
Get divorced ASAP
Start swiping right
Invest in Apple
Jump out of bed at 6 am and not stop moving! I’d go for a long walk. Paint the hallway. Have everyone over for dinner, dogs included. Laugh my head off until I turned into a pumpkin at midnight.
Seize the day. Now I mostly seize the remote. It’s amazing how hard aging has turned out to be.
I’d look around for my four y/o twins then I’d live my life pretty much the same as I did the first time.
Freak the fuck out!
Find my spouse and have my six children again
I could make completely different mistakes! 😳😂
Invest in Microsoft, Amazon and apple.
Get serious with my first on again-off again lover
Get an education…..pursue my dream job.
I would sure be taking a lot better care of myself.
Start working out, eating clean, and go back to school instead of starting up a relationship.
Is it 30 years ago?
Go hiking. Maybe try backpacking.
Start my own business.
Find my sweet ass wife and marry her a year before I did.
FInd a way to buy stock in Amazon, and AT&T.
Actually, my first thought was lamenting the extra 40 or 50 years to my life.
Stop partying and start saving and bone more.
Cry
Run!
Run marathons. Travel. Follow interests with manic intensity.
Stay single.
Get as much trim as possible
The first thing I’d do is wish that I didn’t have dementia.
Book a heli-ski trip to Patagonia, a live aboard scuba boat out of Papeete, a motorcycle rental in Europe, reservations at the Louvre, . . .
Get single, focus on my profession.
30 was a pivotal time for me. Any move to the left or right would change where I am right now. I guess I would have just calmed tf down after the divorce and gone back to school. Still had to work but I’d get out of my toxic job and find something else through the college. Work on me, not go out and date a lot. I probably could have gone to medical school so I would have aimed for that. I had zero support from family so I wish I could have really seen that and had had the confidence to skip through a lot of the bs I put myself through and focus on building my career. I think things would have been so much easier going forward. Life is good now, but I really took the long way around and like I said, the year I turned 30 was a critical time for me.
ETA: I would be so happy to wake up in that body lolol
I’m single now, and at 30 I was single (divorced), obviously not in the same physical condition, but my mindset is basically the same as it was when I was 30. I probably wouldn’t be doing anything differently even with a younger body now.
I’d get circumcised because my foreskin was too tight which caused a LOT of problems.
This is hard to answer because you have not clarified where and when I wake up. Is it just tomorrow in my regular life and situation? Or is it the year and place I was when I was 30?
Go and drive my husband wild with my perky boobs.
Sheila!
Find the man I met at 40 & marry him to get 10 more years of love.
Fling myself off nearest cliff. If I knew then what I know now I wouldn’t have had nearly as much fun! 🤣
I think the first thing I would do is turn on some music and dance in my 30 year old body! Then I’d go shopping for some new, better fitting clothes. Then I’d go eat anything I wanted and maybe I’d go for a run.
Seriously though, I don’t know if my current mind wants to live in a 30 year old body.
Go find my wife and pray she believes the story.
Go to my eventually wife’s office and ask her out.
In my 40’s and have my early 20’s body! Never been single and couldn’t be happier.
Go right to the gym.
Do I have my current bank account?
Roll over and go back to sleep!
I go back 5 years? Date the women I knew that were into me and get into IT much sooner. Or take coding much more seriously. Could go either way to be honest as I was just starting my degree path. Definitely keep up with my fitness and check my mental. Get away from my family and start somewhere anew.
Go to the gym.
Don’t spend frivolously and save every possible penny for retirement.
With the mind I have now means I know about 9/11 and technological advances. So, divorce my wife, easily invest my way to extreme wealth, be a playboy gadabout, and walk into that same bar 16 years later where I’d meet the love of my life.
Go back to school
Get my ADHD addressed, find my husband 10 years earlier, maybe have a baby, go back to school for medicine, and start yoga then.
Buy Apple and NVIDIA and Netflix
Embrace my thirty year old
Body!!!! Exercise like I do now at 45 but at 30! Eat healthy stop drinking and get all the ass you can because you’re confidence is high unlike it was actually when I was younger. In reality when I was 30, I already knew my husband and I was happily in love, but let’s just say I was single or in youth in general. I would’ve been more confident embraced myself, and rocked the shit out of what I had! I’m healthier now than I’ve ever been and more confident, but I really really wish for my old self that it didn’t take me until my 40s to be confident and get rid of fucked up body dysmorphia shit
(1) start the athletic things I do now that I actually started in my 40s, (2) focus on health, such as eating better, drinking less etc, (3) save more money.
Press a switch in the Time Machine to go back to when I am 72. 😂😂
Call the VA and try to get an appointment with a psychiatrist.
I would wander the streets looking for my husband!
Grieve my family, try to find my husband and hopefully conceive my daughter again. But if I didn’t remember them, I’d get fit, try to make as much money as possible and move to the mountains somewhere out west.
Go back to sleep
Buy a bicycle.
Go to talk to him and see what could have been if I didn’t walk away from the one I let go
Move out of the US as fast as possible.
Move out of the US ASAP.
I’d right out all the wrongdoings I made & make corrections.
do i have the money I have now?
if so, ill do whatever I want.
Find Scott.
Go back to sleep.
Walk! And Walk! And Walk! I miss the freedom of walking without the fear of falling.
I’d wish I was 55 again. I’m in the best shape I’ve ever been. I was fat when I was 30.
Get laid.
Love my “too fat” body. I honestly think I would have had a completely different life if I had not always criticized myself and sought validation.
I would have gone back for the love of my life.
I would have kicked the love of my life in the ass and got him in line. I would have gotten my father to help, if need be.
We would have gotten together, within months of my returning to the classroom.
I would’ve gone to law school.
We would’ve had a family together…we’d still be together. My second husband would never have met me, because I only had eyes for one man, from the time I was 24 years old.
I never would’ve stood back and waited, thinking he would come to me. One thing I’ve learned in four decades is that time waits for no man. Or woman, for that matter…
Go hunt down my husband.
Sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex & a whole lot more sex.
Go outside, then wonder why I left the house.
I don’t want that body. I was HUGE. I would love on the husband I had because he won’t be there much longer.
I’d do vanlife
Work in Dubai
Initiate
Start my business
All the stuff I did eventually but sooner
I don’t want that body. I was HUGE. I would love on the husband I had because he won’t be there much longer.
I’d do vanlife
Work in Dubai
Initiate
Start my business
All the stuff I did eventually but sooner
I don’t want that body. I was HUGE. I would love on the husband I had because he won’t be there much longer.
I’d do vanlife
Work in Dubai
Initiate
Start my business
All the stuff I did eventually but sooner
I would not have my second daughter when I was 33. She has a rare form of epilepsy that will take her life one day. (While she is 21 now,20% never make it to the age of 18. I hate seeing her in pain some days no matter what science has to offer. The stress of a medically fragile child cost me my marriage of twenty years and I know it had damaging effects on her older sister.
Don’t get me wrong I love her and she will live with me as long as one of us is alive. I also have plans for her to be taken care of a long time after I am gone with weekly Disney trips if anything happens to me. But the grief is real.
Stop right there and focus on me! Change any and all thoughts I had at that time. If only..
Be very careful with my body so that I never injure my back!! And then sleep around a lot. I was very sexy when I was 30, but did not know it, and had very little sex.
I assume I have my 401k intact, I’m traveling the world same as now but perhaps more rugged places.
If I knew then what I know now …
Have a blast.
I go clubbing and dance my young body to exhaustion…and find that my old brain has forgotten the keys inside my house.
Me, turning 30 in November: where the fuck did my husband go???
Stop smoking, drinking, and partying so much. NOT totally (except the smoking), but cut way back. Visit the Dr more often. Invest more.
Look for my previous spouse.
Edit: and invest that money
Run from the crazy train. (Stay single)
Take over the world…
Tell the neighbours I’m my grandson so they don’t call the cops.
Be more careful what I eat. What goes on doesn’t come off. Not easily, anyway.
Start lookig for work. Retirement sucks.
At 30 I was single.
I would start studying as soon as possible
It’s 2006, so I’d Buy stock in Apple, and basically do what Biff did in back to the future 2- bet huge money on all sports results. Then I’d purchase huge whole life insurance policies so id have something to cash out after they mature.
Nothing but if it 18 its a game changer. At 28 I worked out most of my mistakes but those 10yrs were tough
Be true to myself
Start drinking and partying way more
I’m about to turn 32. I’d still love to be 30 or 20 even. I’d just be a little ahead. Then I an now.
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Also wear more bikinis. I had it pretty good and I did not see it then.
Depends. Do I also have my current bank account and credit rating?
Watch my carb and sugar intake so I don’t end up with diabetes like I have.
I would get my ass to an AA meeting and save myself 14 years of hell. Then I would start saving money!!
Invest
Take much better care of myself!!
Date but don’t marry
Enjoy it !! And never get married !!
Am I healthy? Have a little money? I would go to school and learn how to write and be a better photographer and then go travel the world as a photo-journalist. Biggest regret of my life.
Start reading/practicing the dharma, relaxing my body, and walking away from some very one-sided relationships.
Go to the gym.
Find my ex-husband and marry him so I could have the same 3 incredible kids. Then I’d divorce him again.
My body at 70 is better than my 30 year old one.
Cry … because I was retired.
I need it to be my 29 year old body
Buy Microsoft
I’d rather have my 23 year old body (before children).
Have I gone back to that year? If I have gone back to then. I would save my money to buy a house and buy said house.