Rewind

It seemed like a brilliant idea at the time...

I have wished for the capability to rewind my actions for a do over on many occasions.  If only life worked like the rewind button on video players, awkward and/or dangerous situations would cease to occur.

Say you accidentally fell off a sloped roof while hanging shingles and broke your leg. This would be an egregious violation of rule number one. You aren't a roofer, and it was a bad idea to go up there in the first place, but you did it anyway. Being able to stand on both feet on level ground does not automatically qualify you to stand on a sloped roof. Hit rewind before the ladder ever came out of its storage place, and your broken leg is fixed.  

Or, you failed the LSAT because you overslept after partying all night, and missed the exam. No problem, just restart the day before, skip the party, and ace that exam. It may not be a bad thing if there was one less lawyer though. 

You missed the Monday morning meeting at work because you don't care. The only problem is that you were going to receive a promotion at the meeting, but instead you have been let go for missing ten previous meetings in a row. Hit restart and be the first employee at the meeting. 

You invested everything in that golden opportunity of yet another startup with no business plan, no hope of profit, but millions of users, and lost all your money. By now, you know the drill. 

I often take the circuitous route, but I can usually get to where I need to be. Upon further reflection, and playing it out to a logical conclusion, a rewind option would eliminate the Darwin Awards, and probably lead to massive over-population and food shortages. On second thought, let me hit rewind on this whole idea...