cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/44187272
Besides the obvious answer of making money, or rather, how would you do it as an 8 year old? What else would you do?
Invest in bitcoin
You can invest in bitcoin now.
The question implies being 8 years old today
Sorry if it wasn’t clear. I intended it to mean you were sent back in time to when you were 8, but you can interpret it however you like.
Did you have access to crypto as an 8 year old? Or would you just wait until you were older?
The latter
I’d try to be less sensitive and socially awkward, since that’s how i was when i was younger and it affected me heavily later on.
I’d also try to be a better person to all my ex-friends, and give them more attention; try not to drift away.
Besides that? I don’t know. Nothing, I guess. I wouldn’t go back to being 8 even if i had a choice, tbh. I don’t miss those times.
Transition decades earlier. Or more precisely have the courage, vocabulary and fortitude to stand up to my religious mother and bigoted father. I always knew what I wanted, but they both insisted on doing football and weight lifting, no matter how out of place and unnatural those environments felt to me.
Probably be catatonic. This kind of stress, self-doubt and loathing require those extra 32 years of building resilience. Transplant it into 8 year old me and he just shuts off I imagine.
Depends on whether that’s 8yo now or back when I was 8.
In either case, a lot more fucking around as a teenager and a lot less fucking around in my 20’s.
I would actually follow through with that suicide i was thinking of back in the day. I think about it today also, but I used to as well.
Life ain’t worth the squeeze, and im not adding an additional 30 years to my shift on earth.
Sorry to hear that even if you had the advantage of having the wisdom of a 38 year old at 8 you still don’t find life worth living. I disagree, but can sympathize with the cynicism. I hope you find something akin to peace.
Transition at 10, as soon as the egg cracks.
Transition earlier.
Try to get away from my abusive parents.
Do certain things to meet my best friends earlier and convince them.
Stand up for myself more.
Spend more time with my grandparents.I’ve thought about it a lot
Take a water bottle on an airplane, buy stock in apple, and send the money to the PFLP
Fix my education path. No compromises. No getting gaslighted.
If they won’t officially give me my classes, I’ll sit in the right ones until they either give them to me or kick me out.
Edit: Also, try and stop the Brook Brothers Riots.
I wouldn’t spend so much fucking time on a fucking computer… maybe.
Graduate early and then use my future knowledge to make a shit ton of money as early as I can, Then retire and finally relax for once in my two lives
I would teach other 8 year olds how to butcher a hog.
Do I keep my language skills?
Then have a normal childhood with normal social interactions in Canada instead of the awkward immigrant who can barely speak. Also potentially get diagnosed with autism as a kid because I kind suspect of the language barrier masked some of the symptoms.
Try even harder to be taken into care away from my parents.
