Take the blue pill or the red pill.... which one would you take?

[MenInG]

Take the

Red pill - Time rewinds back to when you were 6 years old
Blue pill - gets you $10 million today!

Which one would you take and why?

 

[Technics 1210]

Red Pill.

I can then place bets on market, sporting, and political outcomes when I turn 18 and rake in way more than $10 Million in the long run.

 

[Local.Dada]

There is no guarantee that if I go back to childhood and correct all the wrong decisions every thing will be perfect.

So rather take the 10 million dollars and plan to live the remaining life peacefully and comfortably.

If you didn’t learn all these years from your experience then living another life all over again will be useless.

Sign me up for the blue pill I take both cash and crypto.

 

[sweep_shot]

I would take blue pill.

I can hopefully use that $10-million productively. I can retire too.

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

The Red Pill: Time rewinds back to when you were 6 years old!

Money is overrated.

 

[Robert]

Blue pill. Get everything right this time.

 

[sweep_shot]

I think red pill is an unnecessary risk here. Where is the guarantee that you will be successful if you start over?

If you have $10-million, you should be able to retire anywhere in the world. You are probably financially set for the rest of your life. You also should have enough to put in savings and invest.

Having $10-million is like starting 2nd innings with a lead of 300 runs. You are already ahead.

 

[Robert]

Blue pill. Get everything right this time.

Oops. Red pill. Certain life decisions would change, assuming I have the mind I have now…

 

[Local.Dada]

Oops. Red pill. Certain life decisions would change, assuming I have the mind I have now…

You go back to being 6. Don’t know about you but at 6 I did so many stupid things that I could have hurt myself badly. The red pill doesn’t say if you will retain the brain of a middle aged man even though body wise you will be 6. That’s why they say read the side effects carefully

 

[Firebat]

Blue pill. 10 million is more than enough for me to retire and live a comfortable and peaceful rest of my life, getting an armchair income from some investments etc. My life would probably look the same whether I'm a billionaire or just a multi-millionaire.

How many years and times do you want to relive life? One's enough for me.

 

[Robert]

Blue pill. 10 million is more than enough for me to retire and live a comfortable and peaceful rest of my life, getting an armchair income from some investments etc. My life would probably look the same whether I'm a billionaire or just a multi-millionaire.

How many years and times do you want to relive life? One's enough for me.

At least twice. Life is simply too short.

In the Iain M Banks “Culture” novels people can continually get reborn into new younger bodies with their brain print backed up on disc. After about four lifetimes some people get bored and accept final death but others keep going.

 

[Hitman]

Blue pill.

 

[from_da_lost_dim3nsion]

Take the

Red pill - Time rewinds back to when you were 6 years old
Blue pill - gets you $10 million today!

Which one would you take and why?

Do you retain all the knowledge of the 6 years ?
I'd take the blue otherwise

 

[dildilpak]

I would take the blue pill and chill.

True red pill will rewind back time, but life does give you a way of auto course correcting over a period of time anyway (or atleast that’s what I believe), so no need to rewind all the way back. For all you know, you might actually end up making it worse for yourself with the choices you get to make all over again.

 

[MenInG]

Do we really want to relive that whole life again?

Why not learn from your mistakes, take the money and move on?

 

[Major]

red pill. Would rather live life again and work my way towards a career that I would enjoy.

If i take the money now, i still would have to work in a job that i might not enjoy

 

[sweep_shot]

red pill. Would rather live life again and work my way towards a career that I would enjoy.

If i take the money now, i still would have to work in a job that i might not enjoy

Why would you have to work after receiving $10-million?

 

[Major]

Why would you have to work after receiving $10-million?

Well if im getting that much amount of money I can do 3 things.

If i dont want to work, i can put that money in a savings account and get interest on it.

If not in a savings account than I can make a company and i would still have to work in building that company

 

[JaDed]

Red Pill: so I can meet my late mother again.

Problem with this thought process is its a never ending hole.

 

[Hitman]

I'm already sick and tired in my 36 years of existence on earth. Can't bear to relive it again from the age of 6.

 

[Robert]

I'm already sick and tired in my 36 years of existence on earth. Can't bear to relive it again from the age of 6.

Dear Lord. Have you seen a counsellor about this? By 36 I was just hitting stride. My mid-thirties were the start of my happiest years.

 

[gazza619]

Surely the red pill. However not everybody is blessed to have a good childhood.

I would like to rewind to when I was 15 years old.

 

[gazza619]

I'm already sick and tired in my 36 years of existence on earth. Can't bear to relive it again from the age of 6.

I think you spend too much time arguing on this forum, lol

 

[gazza619]

Well if im getting that much amount of money I can do 3 things.

If i dont want to work, i can put that money in a savings account and get interest on it.

If not in a savings account than I can make a company and i would still have to work in building that company

Money sorts out a few things in the life but never makes one happy

 

[Major]

Money sorts out a few things in the life but never makes one happy

I only wish i was able to make a career in cricket

 

[Sidilicious]

Blue Pill

You cannot have a life without misery and mistakes. If I go back to 6 years old, I will still make other mistakes. I will not end up where I am right now and it will not necessarily be a good thing.

But having learnt what I have learnt, I will be able to make the most of the $10min and still be me.

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

I'm already sick and tired in my 36 years of existence on earth. Can't bear to relive it again from the age of 6.

That's just sad to read.

You are at your prime right now.

To quote the goat here "35 is the new 25"!

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Cheer up bro!

 

[Smbhayi]

Money pill.. i dont want to go to school(s) again.. too lazy..

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

In my extended family, we have a relative who is multi-millionaire (€s). He came from literally nothing. The whole rags to riches arch. A life worth of mention in Alif Laila's 1001 tales. At one point in his teen years he had tied a rope to the roof fan and the noose was around his neck, only his mother's screams and the neighbors who ran to stop him managed to save him that day. His life has been brutal. The man owns a small island and Allah knows how many houses/ how many kgs of gold etc. He has always 10 heavily armed 6.5ft+ Pashtun bodyguards around him. And he dines with key leaders of Punjab.

But I know for a fact he is not very happy.

So in the end, 10 million or 100 or a 1000 million dollars are not guarantee of absolute happiness.

Just look at Musk, Trump and similar rich and sad individuals...

I believe money is needed when you are poor up until a certain point. But if you are living in the 1st world and you have your basic needs covered, then happiness should be easy to achieve.

 

[baggy blue]

if i could carry all the widsom i have acquired i will go with red pill., otherwise blue pill.

 

[Cover Drive Six]

I would take the Red Pill.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

I wanted to say red pill. But my decision making would still be limited by other extenuating circumstances. So might as well take the blue pill.

 

[sweep_shot]

In my extended family, we have a relative who is multi-millionaire (€s). He came from literally nothing. The whole rags to riches arch. A life worth of mention in Alif Laila's 1001 tales. At one point in his teen years he had tied a rope to the roof fan and the noose was around his neck, only his mother's screams and the neighbors who ran to stop him managed to save him that day. His life has been brutal. The man owns a small island and Allah knows how many houses/ how many kgs of gold etc. He has always 10 heavily armed 6.5ft+ Pashtun bodyguards around him. And he dines with key leaders of Punjab.

But I know for a fact he is not very happy.

So in the end, 10 million or 100 or a 1000 million dollars are not guarantee of absolute happiness.

Just look at Musk, Trump and similar rich and sad individuals...

I believe money is needed when you are poor up until a certain point. But if you are living in the 1st world and you have your basic needs covered, then happiness should be easy to achieve.

This is halal $10-million. You can build mosques, hospitals etc. You can feed orphans. There are so many good things you can do with this money even after securing yourself financially. Opportunities for sadaqah jariyah.

Also, where is the guarantee that you would be happy/successful if you start over? There is no guarantee.

 

[DeadlyVenom]

Neither.

I am not interested in living again and don't need the disruption that extra money will bring.

 

[Local.Dada]

Well if im getting that much amount of money I can do 3 things.

If i dont want to work, i can put that money in a savings account and get interest on it.

If not in a savings account than I can make a company and i would still have to work in building that company

So let’s say you wanted to be a cricketer and maybe think you can make extra effort to get it right this time but what is the guarantee that you have the skills to become an international cricketer in you or what’s the guarantee that some external threat will sabotage that wish? There are no guarantees. Also when you go back you might undo the wrongs you did but also put some of the luck you had at times or some clever decisions you made at risk.

Maybe due to my profession but I like to eliminate maximum risk and when the payoff is 10 million usd, it seems like a no brainer.

Also heard of the butterfly effect (that’s what I think it’s called), every new decision you take will have a ripple effect and change everything. So let’s say you undo some decision it can have an impact like suddenly Misbah will start playing like Afridi and Afridi like Pujara

Obviously I am overthinking on a fun thread

 

[Major]

So let’s say you wanted to be a cricketer and maybe think you can make extra effort to get it right this time but what is the guarantee that you have the skills to become an international cricketer in you or what’s the guarantee that some external threat will sabotage that wish? There are no guarantees. Also when you go back you might undo the wrongs you did but also put some of the luck you had at times or some clever decisions you made at risk.

Maybe due to my profession but I like to eliminate maximum risk and when the payoff is 10 million usd, it seems like a no brainer.

Also heard of the butterfly effect (that’s what I think it’s called), every new decision you take will have a ripple effect and change everything. So let’s say you undo some decision it can have an impact like suddenly Misbah will start playing like Afridi and Afridi like Pujara

Obviously I am overthinking on a fun thread

well you are right, but i think as a child I had the talent and if I had continued playing i couldn't have made it.

Bro, if i could get a gig of cricket reporting, social media gigs with pakistan cricket i would love to do it... too bad all the major cricket journal organizations are in India and organizations like Transgroup are in Karachi

 

[dildilpak]

well you are right, but i think as a child I had the talent and if I had continued playing i couldn't have made it.

Bro, if i could get a gig of cricket reporting, social media gigs with pakistan cricket i would love to do it... too bad all the major cricket journal organizations are in India and organizations like Transgroup are in Karachi

Or could just run a You tube channel - bash Pakistanis and praise the Indians for views

 

[SalimBhai]

Happy where I am in life. However I would redo it .

 

[MenInG]

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