tetris11@feddit.uk to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoIt must suck being a divorced time-traveller with kidsmessage-squaremessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up178arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up174arrow-down1message-squareIt must suck being a divorced time-traveller with kidstetris11@feddit.uk to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square51linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMrOtingocni@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·3 days agoOr, and hear me out, you could go back, meet a better partner and then have even better kids. It’d be at least a 50% upgrade.
minus-squaregAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·3 days agoThis sounds like a good way to end up the final boss of an RPG
minus-squareMrOtingocni@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoA flash of colorful light Booted feet lightly land on the ground Standing from the shadowy throne as dramatic music plays “Ahh it is finally time. Face me, then, forsaken child from the alternate dimension. You are just as snotty now as you were then!” “Also, no, your mother doesn’t let you stay up past 10 to watch SpongeBob Skibi Pants. I checked.”
minus-squarerants_unnecessarily@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoAnd forever miss the children you loved and destroyed by your own actions.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agospeaking from experience, you get used to it.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoIt would be a kindness to them while only you would suffer. Seems noble.
minus-squarerants_unnecessarily@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 days agoHow is that a kindness? You have no idea how good a life they have had.
minus-squarebadgermurphy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoIt seems to me that a time traveler could know that if they wanted to.
Or, and hear me out, you could go back, meet a better partner and then have even better kids. It’d be at least a 50% upgrade.
This sounds like a good way to end up the final boss of an RPG
A flash of colorful light
Booted feet lightly land on the ground
Standing from the shadowy throne as dramatic music plays
“Ahh it is finally time. Face me, then, forsaken child from the alternate dimension. You are just as snotty now as you were then!”
“Also, no, your mother doesn’t let you stay up past 10 to watch SpongeBob Skibi Pants. I checked.”
And forever miss the children you loved and destroyed by your own actions.
speaking from experience, you get used to it.
It would be a kindness to them while only you would suffer. Seems noble.
How is that a kindness? You have no idea how good a life they have had.
It seems to me that a time traveler could know that if they wanted to.