If you could go either forwards or backwards in time 5 years, which would you pick and why?

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I'd go forwards I think. Just to see where my life ends up!

Forwards. I'm not going back through losing my Dad again for anything, not even if I got a wee bit of time with him too.

If I could go back knowing what I know now I would do that. If not, I'd go forward.

Backwards I would be just pregnant with the twins we went on to lose but I would have that time again

Backwards mainly because I don’t want to miss 5 years of the dc growing up. I have to teenagers and an 8 year old it goes by so fast.
If I went back 5 years they’d be little again. I’d get to marry dh again. I’d have to go through him being pretty ill again though which although short lived in the end was hell at the time and frightening how ill he got so quickly.

If it had to be 1, it would be back..

Forward 5 years, the DC will be young teens, and family members may have disappeared.

Back 5 years and I'd have a 2 & 3 yo again. As fondly as I look back on that time with my rose tinted spectacles, it was hard work! But I'd have the benefit of knowing what happens.

Backwards, without a doubt.
Five years ago I was about to go to university. It was a four-year course (languages, year abroad) so it was a big portion of my life for the past five years. I'd have to relive my year abroad, which was shit, but at least I'd have the knowledge that I did manage to get through it.

Forwards would just be too scary for me, I dislike the fact that so much of life is uncertain/that there are no guarantees. I struggle with anxiety/low self esteem; in five years' time, I could be a lot better, a lot worse, or pretty much the same.

Back. I wouldn’t have moved house, and I would have finished my masters. I always think wistfully about Groundhog Day.

I would go back and relive my 4 year old's babyhood.

Back. Two years ago a surgeon was negligent during major surgery and it very nearly cost me my life.

Backwards! I was engaged to my now DH and we were living in London.
I would embrace my last 6 months before I got pregnant a bit more and live London life to the full!
It’s been fabulous but hard work 5 years, I now have 2 DC and we have done the big move from our tiny London flat to big house up north. I wouldn’t have spent so much on renovations as we are completely skint now.
I wouldn’t stress so much about my first.
I would celebrate my flat 6 pack & innie bellybutton as I now have a flabby tummy and a disgusting outie!

Back! This has been a great phase of my life, and is get to see lived ones who've moved on. And I'm going to see the next 5 years anyway!

I'd go back. To relive my DC being babies. Eldest was only 6 months old 5 years ago.

2013 I felt shit enough abiutvthings to ditch Facebook altogether. Dd2 was born late 2012. I had been a lone parent from spring 2012. I was on maternity leave which in some ways was better though I was in consultation for redundancy that whole time. I didn't lose my job though. I'm so much stronger now but the dds when they were little were lovely. I found life physically very hard though.

I guess I choose forward but I'd waver

I don't think I would want to live the last five years again. So I'd have to say forward.

Forward, going through a shit time at the minute

Back 5 years, to remember what my life was like and how my body felt before I had my first attack of MS.

Back without a doubt.
To see my DM again also l made some poor decisions which will have lifelong repercussions for a few people, so l would like that sliding door moment, to see if things could turn out better for everyone involved.

I would go back. Enjoy being childless and then try to enjoy my pregnancy. I had terrible PND so it would be nice to enjoy DS as a baby.

Backwards because even though I'm happy when I am I don't want to lose 5 years of my life, so reliving is better than never having

I'd go forward 5years so my kids would be 15,14,10 & 7 that way they all grown up enough to do things for themselves without constantly going "mum do this & mum do that " lol + I wonder wether I'll have a job by then as I'm a full time mum at the minute.

Forward. Eldest has an undiagnosed genetic condition with uncertain prognosis. I want to know if she turns out ok.

Forward. Im ver happy with the last 5 years. Id hate to step on a butterfly or miss a bus and boom its all different.

Forwards.

DD1 will have progressed from current situation in one way or another.
And I can miss out DD2's main teenage years including GCSEs and 6th form. (Provided they go OK)

I don't want to have to do the last 3 years again. We might suggest different routes for DD1 but they might turn out even worse.

If we go backwards does that meant we get to relive the past 5 years, but not change anything?

I'd definitely go back, I'd have a gorgeous wee 10 month old, a lovely flat, OH and I were in a good place. I'd be happy enough to relive the 5 years as they were.

Back. I was younger.