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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Thank you for your thoughts on this! It's interesting that there seems to be two avenues of thought, 1) relive a day to change your life, or 2) which is what I was thinking, is relive a day because you remember a time or specific day in your life that was awesome, and you would just like to re-experience it again. For me, the memories of my children when they were young, are barely in my mind, and it is only through photographs that I even have much recollection of it. Memories of my entire life are very limited. I once sat down and tried to write everything I remember about my life, and it was only about 10 full pages! They say you mostly remember the very highs and lows, but for me, it is almost ONLY the highs and lows. I suffered some traumatic events in childhood, and have read such things can program your brain to forget not just that, but unfortunately, lots of other things along the way. I'm not really upset about the traumatic event, but am about the memory loss! (but maybe if I retained the memory of the traumatic event, I would think differently).