2 choices - which do you choose?

Which of the below would you choose and why?

Choice 1. You receive a windfall of $15 million cash. But you turn 55 years old overnight. Other than the money and your age, nothing else changes. What do you do with the rest of your life?

Choice 2. You regress back to your 10 year old self with a chance to start again with a clean slate with the life experience you have accumulated thus far, nothing else. What will you do different this time?

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EDIT : bonus 3rd choice

3rd choice: It is still 2020. You remain your current age and retain your current knowledge / experience and you receive USD 25,000 net cash windfall every 30 days till you die but you lose ALL your teeth and you have a rare genetic condition that means false teeth implants, dentures just fall out your mouth so you will never be able to rectify this.

 
"Intern in PropTrad" but you lose ALL your teeth and you have a rare genetic condition that means false teeth implants, dentures just fall out your mouth so you will never be able to rectify this.

you're a terrible person

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I really did not think this through properly before I phrased it! Nothing else changes meaning current situation - you are still living in 2020 lockdown/ single/ married / working in IB whatever your current situation is. But your age is 55 on receipt of the windfall and that is reflected in your appearance and health eg dad bod, wrinkles and time left on earth.

Even if you still had the stamina, sense of humour, mental robustness and physicality of a 27 year old man but were 55 years old, you just shaved 28 years off your life for 15 million - so what would you do with it?

 

When considering that the average age of people on here might be in their 20s, it would not make much sense to lose 30 years of your life for the extra cash

 

I would choose Choice 2. I have many things that I know now that I can really change in hindsight. I slacked off till the end of high school, which I very much regret now. Since coming to uni I have definitely turned a new corner and have been pretty successful but being able to do high school and before, all over again would be a game changer.

 

55 is old AF - can't pick up young chicks at that age in their 20s, 30s maybe (probably not), 40s is your prime time woman mix

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
"Ilikethegym"
"Isaiah_53_5" 40s is your prime time woman mix

For u

Which means?

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

In option 2, I keep all of the knowledge I have accumulated in life this far? Do I go back in time to the early 2000s when I was 10 or do I become 10 in 2020?

If I can go back, yeah definitely. If not, I'd rather just stay the same. If forced to choose, I'd still take the 10.

Dayman?
 

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