Frank, aka PCGuyIV, is back with another episode of Truthful Tuesday. The idea behind Truthful Tuesday is for us to respond to the question (or questions) Frank asks and to be 100% truthful in our responses. No glib answers, no funny business, no fibs. Just raw honesty.

For this week’s Truthful Tuesday, Frank wants to know…

Whether going back in time to an earlier age or just waking up as a younger version of yourself, many writing prompts involve the idea of being young again, having to repeat some part of your life. My question to you is, Do you enjoy these kinds of prompts or do you cringe at the apparent obsession with being “young again”? Is there a particular reason for your answer?

I suppose we all reminisce about the “good old days” of our youth from time to time. Hell, I spent the whole month of April, in my unofficial A to Z Blogging Challenge posts, reminiscing about my mid-teens to late 20s. But my philosophy about the past is “what is done is done” and no matter how much I might wish to go back and have a do-over, no such thing exists in reality.

I’ve also noticed that in most of my dreams, I am younger than I actually am, and then I wake up and realize that I’m an old fart. So I’d say that in my subconscious mind, I revisit my youth and my younger days almost nightly. I don’t need to do so on my blog during my waking hours, as well.

Still, I don’t mind being asked in a prompt about going back in time or being young again. Like in a recent edition of Share Your World, when Di asked, “Is there any time in your life you would like to relive?” my response was essentially that…

I think I’d rather reflect back on my life through my memories than to actually go back and re-live it. That said, I have no issue writing about my past or my memories of a more youthful me in response to such prompt questions. Besides, I tend to believe that the experience of re-living a part of my life probably wouldn’t be as pleasant as the memories of it usually are.