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Would you rather be your current age or the numbers reserved?

91 replies

OneUmberJoker · 05/10/2025 19:20

For example if you are currently 42 you would now be 24

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Marble10 · 05/10/2025 19:22

Oh definitely the numbers reversed again 🙂 I’m in my thirties but I’ve learnt a lot since my 20s and I’d like to go back and make the most of them

Melancholyflower · 05/10/2025 19:24

Well I wouldn’t want to be in my eighties, so my current age.

PickAChew · 05/10/2025 19:25

Makes no difference. I'm the same age, whichever.

MyElatedUmberFinch · 05/10/2025 19:25

I’m 56 so I’ll stick with that.

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 05/10/2025 19:26

I’m 55 so there’s no winning for me!

DonewhatIcando · 05/10/2025 19:28

I'd be 95 😂

stclementine · 05/10/2025 19:28

I’m 51 so no way do I want teenage angst again!

boxofbuttons · 05/10/2025 19:30

I'd skip forward almost 20 years so no!

youalright · 05/10/2025 19:31

Current age id be over 50 years older and probably dead if I flipped my age 👻

MadameSzyszkoBohusz · 05/10/2025 19:36

Definitely not reversed, that would age me nearly 30 years!

ClaredeBear · 05/10/2025 19:38

I could do many things differently if I flipped the digits! The questions is, would I..?

TenInSport · 05/10/2025 19:43

I'd definitely flip the digits if I was given the option. Then I'd say "no" when he asked me to marry him and would have had a far happier next 17 years than I did.

TheChosenTwo · 05/10/2025 19:45

No way would I ever want to be 14 again.

Getoffofmyland · 05/10/2025 19:56

I’d like to be 36 again although I would be in the middle of having three very young children - I’d love that time again (when I knew where they were!)

unsurewhattodoaboutit · 05/10/2025 19:57

That would make me 85. I will stick with the current age thanks!

onyourway · 05/10/2025 20:21

I’d be 6 😀😀

CurleyMango · 05/10/2025 20:21

Yes please, would love time back with little ones and also know myself more. Would still run my own company.

SparklyGlitterballs · 05/10/2025 20:26

I wouldn't mind the youthful appearance I had when the numbers were the other way around (I'd be in my teens), but I wouldn't necessarily want to be that age again. Not in today's world anyway. Being a teen in the late 70s wasn't so bad.

luckylavender · 05/10/2025 20:28

I’d be 36. Hell yes

DappledThings · 05/10/2025 20:31

I'd be 64. Don't particularly want to skip forward and miss things so overall it's a no but I have no qualms about being that age when I am.

If it was a number that made me younger then definitely not. I've been consistently happier with each year since my late 20s.

Shallysally · 05/10/2025 20:33

I think so. I’d leave my last relationship far sooner than I did. But, that might mean I maybe wouldn’t meet my lovely DP, so I don’t know.

dudsville · 05/10/2025 20:35

Hm. I would be back to a time in my life that was rich with promise, but I've since enjoyed the rewards of the effort I put in then. And I wouldn't really want to have to do all of that over again. I'll stay here!

JustStopItNorasaurus · 05/10/2025 20:36

51 or 15.

No brainer for me. I hated being a teenager. All that stress with school etc and no proper agency, still at the mercy of an abusive parent and school and adults always telling me what to do, what to think and berating me if I got it wrong.

Cattenberg · 05/10/2025 20:36

Reverse me quickly, before I turn 44!

CompletelyEffedIt · 05/10/2025 20:37

I’d be 82 🤣 no thanks

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