I was searching for prompts today and I came across an interesting question-based prompt that I'd like to take a moment to address. The question (if you haven't already guessed) is if you could either have a pause or rewind button for your life, which would you choose and why? My choice would be neither, personally- but that's because logical thinking entirely discounts this prompt for me. Instead, I'd like to talk rationally about the two choices offered and why I'd rather just live.
Let's start with rewind. Having a rewind button for your life seems to be the obvious choice of the two, right? You'd be able to go backwards and fix your mistakes, or talk to a loved one who passed away, or better use your time... you may even be able to prevent a crisis from happening! However, when you think about the situation and take a rewind button for what it is, you wouldn't necessarily have memory of using the rewind. Much like rewinding a VHS tape doesn't change the movie it plays, rewinding your life wouldn't grant you the ability to make new decisions. You'd simply be re-living your past choices up until the point you started rewinding, and to me, re-living my life sounds like more of a nightmare than a dream. Even if this button came with the perk of decision-altering, I still wouldn't want to use it. My choices have inevitably made me who I am today, and I'd never want to sacrifice the life I'm living now and all the effort I've put into it for anything else. Now let's visit the pause button. Why anyone would ever want to pause their life is beyond me. You never can know when a precious moment is going to happen until after the fact, so it isn't like you'd be able to pause a good moment and enjoy it forever anyway. That would fall to the rewind button. This button is also vague- when we say "pause life", does that mean the world around us comes to a halt, and we're allowed to keep moving? Or do we simply freeze in age and productivity- or worse yet, freeze altogether? If that's the case, I'd definitely steer clear of this button. Hit it once, and you'll never be able to un-pause yourself! And even if the pause button was referring to life's daily events, I still wouldn't choose this button. Enough people get caught in the loop of their everyday lives without having a button to do it for them. To summarize- I believe this is a foolish prompt, particularly for logical people and experienced writers. It poses a complex question that really has no good answer- and that's why I wanted to give my thoughts on it here. - Maddie
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