Where’s the Restart Button?
07. Mar, 2010 
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Throughout my life I’ve wondered many things (my brain never stops thinking), but one of the most prominent things that pops up is, “What if we had our own restart button.” Now I know you may think I sound nuts, but I’ve analyzed this frequently (to the fact that I wished that the button would be our belly button!), and have come to some interesting conclusions.
I am sure none of us students can disagree with the fact that, at some point in our lives, we wished we go back to the beginning of something and start over. This could be pertaining to the relationship that you recently found out would end; the paths you didn’t take in terms of education or work experience; or even those times when you wish you could go back to Friday, and maybe, just maybe, get some work done throughout the weekend this time.
Sometimes though, I know, the whole aspect of starting over scares us.
As I write this blog I frequently delete words here and there. But I don’t start over. I merely push CTRL and Z on my keyboard (or Edit -> Undo), and simply undo and get back on track. Could life function that way? Could I magically now hit my bellybutton (much like those two buttons on my keyboard) and get back on the path I am supposed to be on?
The unfortunate thing is that I realize we can’t go back to the beginning of our lives and relive our obsessions with Barbie and Tonka trucks… but wouldn’t that make life so much simpler? I’ve found out the hard way that skinned knees are a lot easier to heal than broken hearts. I still don’t know what I was thinking when I was 13, claiming that I could not wait to get older and have more responsibility.
I just feel that life doesn’t prepare you for the many paths out there. I feel that you only find out about the shortcut after you climbed 62,532 stairs, swam 24353 kilometers, and hiked 3,200 mountains. I did not know that there were other paths to education (guidance counselor gave me two options… Arts or Science) nor did I realize that there was other ways of getting to my final destination (what that is… I still don’t know).
So with that in mind, I shall continue to think about my “restart” button and my “undo” button… and finally realize why Staples’ Easy button may just be the way to go…
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Nick,
Great first post! It’s a very interesting ponder for sure. I could not agree more with the fact that owe seem to find out how to do something easier, only AFTER we have accomplished the task. I guess all we can hope is that we are on the right path now. I wish you the best of luck.
Once again, I very interesting blog!
Maybe this comment should have been undone? What do you think?
Although at some point we all wish that we had a restart button and that we could say do an embarrassing moment in time over when you walked up to that guy at the party and asked him out and he said no… ok well maybe that’s just me. My point is that the experiences that we have in life (regardless of whether they are good or bad) shape us into the people we are and the people we are going to become. Taking the easy way out (or maybe just the Staples easy button) just deprives us of our chance to become what we really are!
So if you want hit your bellybutton and restart your life, just remember the mistakes you’ve made and the experiences you’ve had.
Hey guys thanks for the comments was basically just a random thought of mine (and PS the belly button isn’t working). But for some reason your comments have sparked a memory of my favorite comment by the one and only Sherlock Holmes:
“I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.”
Kinda makes you think eh? Anyway thanks for your comments hopefully I’ll have more random thoughts soon.
Nick (& Fellow CampusIntel readers).
I thought that your writing about life and logic was very parallel to a blog I came across. For that reason, I thought I would share it. It’s an interesting blog written by Ryan entitled, Provoking Thought… I hope it does just that!
http://dantem.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/provoking-thought/#comment-280