The Button Game

Let’s play a game.

In front of you is a button. If you press it, time rewinds to a moment of your choosing. You do not get to keep the memories of the intervening moments—this is a true reset. You won’t be able to beat the stock market or wildly alter the course of the world with the benefit of fore-hindsight. What you can do is live. In life, there may be moments of chance: rolls of the dice, decisions made in fits of passion. Things that could have gone another way. Maybe, this time, they do.

The button, if you press it, lets you return to a place you once knew, be who you once were, and live life over again. Of course, you won’t remember that you’ve pressed it. Perhaps you already have.

Would you press it now?