I have thought about this often, and I am assuming a long life :) (If I knew I only had three years to live, I wouldn't want to give up one of them! :) ) When I look back at my life, the times I miss the most are when my children were young. I would pick a day, a Saturday when they were all home, when they were 3, 5, 7, and 9. The three-year-old was old enough then to be out of the "baby" or "terrible two" phase, the 5-yr-old was just at an incredibly cute phase, the 7-yr-old was transitioning to the "no longer a kid" phase, and the 9-yr-old still openly loved me (those of you with girls, know what I'm talking about :) ) I look back at all the old photos and can't believe how fast the years went by! I think the greatest power in the world would be to be able to look at any photo, and flash into the scene of the photo at the time the photo was taken; a combination of time travel and life repeating :) (but could get odd if you flashed into a scene that you were in :) )
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The play "Our Town" was based on this exact premise...saw it live "in the round" in Lincolnshire, IL in the 80's and it was fantastic. When your kids are young, you can't wait for them to get to the next milestone but before you know it they are all grown up and then you wish for those innocent, untroubled early days. Little kids, little problems...big kids, big problems! I like the song "The Way We Were" because it portrays how precious our memories are. The thing I love most about being a grandparent is enjoying the kids without worrying about cooking, cleaning, laundry, schedules, etc. Love on them then you get to go home.
No grandchildren yet, and unfortunately, the daughters all got the covid shots, so who knows what might result from that. The movie, "Nobody's Fool" (a "little" movie with Paul Newman), hits a little bit on some aspects of looking back on your life. One line sticks out for me where the son says to his father, paraphrasing "How come you didn't treat me like that when I was his age? " (referring to a grandson) And the grandfather says something of the order, "It skips a generation".