If you could go back in time....

I know exactly what you mean. It took me 35 years to become my mother's friend. We still had our differences but somehow we always managed to overcome them by ROFLOAO. But somehow it stings a little when you think of how many years were wasted. Thanks for response

Personally I can't see what puberty has to do with anything. If you mean in your early teens then I can empathize. However, please don't place all the blame on your parents. I am sure that they meant well based on their own experience. Just because you don't think they understood you is no reason to put the blame on their shoulders. Life is a two-way street. Also it's like a sewer....you get out of it only what YOU put into it. Take responsibility for your life and if it has't been what you had hoped for dont put the blame on someone else.

I'm not trying to put the blame on them. I just want to take the initiative to create a different relationship with them based on a more open communication. at that respective age I had some atmpts to do that, but I backed up and became an introvert at the first signs of them not agreeing with what I was saying or doing. anyway, I am not laying the blame on them, because I know they mean what is best for me, but both my parents and I made mistakes which now cannot be repaired so easily

You just bowled me over.....only 20? never would have guessed it my your postings and responses. Seems like you got your head on straight and are "heading" in the right direction. Keep up the good work and the best of fortune in all you seek to do. Thanks for dropping by again and for your input.

That's great. It looks like you're on the track if you accept the fact that you made mistakes and have, evidently, tried not to make the same ones again. Appreciate your input.

Sounds like to had a good time and learned as much from experiencing it as you did studying from books. Thank you for response.

Appreciate your response....but you might have shared at least one experience that stands out in those years.

You wish you could do what?

Thanks for responding. The twenties were good but I have found that the older you get the more you enjoy life.

Thanks for your response. If you are planning an early retirement I take it that you have been successful despite your awkwardness in high school. Best of luck.

Good answer. I can't decide whether you didnt finish high school, you cant get a job or you think that education is the key to the future. Might I add that if the first hits the nail on the head..... u might consider going to night school to finish up or take a GED test to prove that you can finish high school education. Thanks for responding.

Thanks for response. Sounds like a great idea to me. A good education can't hurt no matter how you shake it.

Thanks for the response. Becoming 21 wasn't that exciting for me.....just another hohum day. While we can't erase our mistakes we can all certainly learn from them by not making the same ones again. The Spanish philosopher Santyana once said.....if man cannot learn from his mistakes he is doomed to repeating them.....a rough translation.

Thanks for responding. I had a blast in high school also especially with the extra curriclar activities. But I had my life planned out with goals to accomplish....which, happily, I achieved and then after 40 I began to reap the rewards.

Thanks for your response. I know the feeling. I would love to go back to Thanksgiving 1956 and tell my stepdad that I loved him. I often wonder if he knew because I never told him and I have regretted it.

That's certainly one way of looking at it. But I think in everyone's life he/she has thought they would like to go back either to reminice or change something. We don't know what the future holds.....we can only live today and remember tomorrow. Appreciate input.