Would it be better if life was in reverse?

Question

You start old with loads of money and knowledge, get younger every year, and end up carefree and innocent.

Your mid-life crisis would become reality 20 years after, responsibility would lessen during the teenage years, and childhood would be a perfect retirement...

Plus your christmas presents would get better as time goes by: socks... socks... jumper... watch... aftershave... scaaaa-lextric!

Downsides would include giving up drinking, smoking, driving, and sex at certain points in your life, but surely you would have more to look forward to in general...
What do you think?

Answer 1

you have a interest way of analysing life and finding ways to "improve" it.

Good imagination, sets me thinking as well. I really don't know, I think the grass is always greener on the other side. Thus, when your imagination is in place. U maybe on yahoo asking the same question... in reverse too. So..

Answer 2

Good question and thinking about it I wouldn't mind a bit of that myself, it would be great watching your body change back to how it was in your youth, the grey hairs disappearing, the wrinkles unfolding and all the bits that have gone south end up back up north again, the Christmas pressie would be great as the years went by imagine no more bubble bath, face creams and tacky perfumes, I could have dolls, teddies and maybe a scalecrix even though I'm a women, I don't drive, drink or smoke, guess the sex would be a huge loss but what the hell I could try all the other things out when I got to 13 or so, yep lets get onto the PC brigade and demand it now.

Answer 3

It would be much, much better. Last year,
I wrote a screenplay about a world where everyone grew younger. It was rejected because a similar story was being filmed (with Brad Pitt and Kate Blanchet) called "The Curious Story of Benjamin Button".
Author? F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Answer 4

A child born with a silver spoon in its mouth has no goalposts, nothing to work for. Everything in life would be taken for granted.

Not a good idea at all. How would you learn about life if everything came on a silver platter?

Being born into a comfortable existence is ok, better than a deprived one of abstract poverty. The above is excessive.

Answer 5

I saw that answer too. I like the thought though obviously in practice it could never work. But boy does it sound like fun.
Actually if you live long enough, (ie the mind begins to go a bit), you get a second bite at part of the cherry, and enter what is known as your second childhood.

Though if like me you had some brains (hehe), you would have played dumb all your life - when the occasion suited. lol

Answer 6

Is it not better to die when your body is falling apart, rather than when it is new and vigorous?

Also, once you have crawled back into the womb, become a foetus, then an embryo, then a fertilized egg. What then? Does the egg de-fertilize? What happens to the egg and sperm?

Bit more thinking needed, here, I think.

Answer 7

How to you choose your parents in your future, surely when you starting old and grumphy (with lots of money), makes your Parents older and grumpier smells like rot, skins too dry and wrinkly like a land in heavy drought.

I wouldn't like that.

Answer 8

I think a good way to end your days might be in the womb, shrinking, shrinking, shrinking, until you are no more than a twinkle in someone's eye.

Answer 9

I've thought of this myself... it sounds beautiful.

Either way, you'd end up pretty much the same way in the end, helpless, wearing diapers, and having your children take care of you.

Answer 10

Getting back into the womb would be a messy business....Eh?