Making same lifestyle choices second time round

[WendyS]

Am trying to think of the writer or playwright who wrote a book or drama which proved that humans, when presented with a choice to relive their lives, usually make the same choices & repeat the same mistakes again. Can anybody point me in the right direction please? Thanks.

[Kingaroo]

I'm looking forward to someone answering this, the text sounds like an interesting discussion on human nature... and also perhaps of free will vs predestination. I can imagine that another author's version of the story might head in the direction of the same things happening to people regardless of the choices they make.

[Peter Pedant]

How about an example from life ?

When my uncle divorced wife no 2 and married wife no 3, the hunourists in the family wondered why he had bothered since no 3 was so like no 2.