Would you go back in time if you could?
@PatZAnthony (14752)
Charlotte, North Carolina
July 2, 2017 6:51pm CST
After discussing the fact that June was almost over (and here we are in July) it made me think that some would go back in time if they could.
Someone much wiser than me told me no, she would not want to live life again. Those years were over, and at the age of 68, she just wanted to move forward.
Going back in time and living through some of the harsh things that happen in life might not be the choice of everyone.
What about you? Would you go back in time if you could?
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
2 Jul 17
I would go back if I could change things..otherwise no.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
3 Jul 17
@Raelove Yes because I sure wouldn't want to go back if it was the same..
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
6 Jul 17
That is most of us it seems @TiarasOceanView
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
3 Jul 17
The simple answer is NO. Past is past and I won't like to re-live it.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
5 Jul 17
That would make sense to many people @LadyDuck
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@LadyDuck (459422)
• Switzerland
6 Jul 17
@PatZAnthony To be a few years younger it would be nice, but not to go back too many years.
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@blitzfrick (2890)
• United States
3 Jul 17
yes I would like to go back and kick a few behinds
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
5 Jul 17
Wonder if it would happen like that @blitzfrick or would everything be the same?
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@blitzfrick (2890)
• United States
6 Jul 17
@PatZAnthony I'd want to be able to know what I know now. If I had to relive everything the exact same way what would be the point?
@Courtlynn (66918)
• United States
3 Jul 17
This has always been a tough one for me. As I've gone through some things that i would not want to relive, but that i would want to go back to before them and stop them from happening.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
5 Jul 17
It would be great if we could know what to change, but would we even have that chance @Courtlynn
You are moving forward to the day you will reconnect with your daughter, and that will be a great day.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
5 Jul 17
Fixing our mistakes would be nice @aishanee
@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
3 Jul 17
Oh heck yeah @PatZAnthony but only if I knew I could make the necessary changes.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
3 Jul 17
@nanette64 When doing a survey about this some years back, most people questioned said no way b/c of things that had gone wrong along the way!
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
3 Jul 17
That would probably be the kicker @nanette64
If we can't make changes, many would not want to go back.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
3 Jul 17
@PatZAnthony Yeah, I wouldn't want to relive some of the crap that I've been through.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
5 Jul 17
Only if we could go back with the knowledge we have today @DianneN
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
5 Jul 17
Those college years can be wicked @just4him
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@just4him (307318)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
5 Jul 17
@PatZAnthony It was where my weight was concerned. I went from skinny to fat in one year. Otherwise I totally enjoyed college.
@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
3 Jul 17
If I could go back and know what I know now, YES! I would walk up to me and say " DO NOT GO THERE!!!"
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
5 Jul 17
Yes, if we could warn ourselves it would be nice @andriaperry
@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
5 Jul 17
Having no regrets is the best answer @Shiva49
It would be nice if we were all happy to move forward.
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@Shiva49 (26225)
• Singapore
6 Jul 17
@PatZAnthony Learn the lessons and move on is my way.
We face issues to keep us alive and kicking! siva
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@peachpurple (13884)
• Malaysia
3 Jul 17
I want to go back to my baby days, I want to be a baby again. Too frustrated to be an adult
@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
5 Jul 17
Being an adult is hard work @peachpurple but someone has to do it!
@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
5 Jul 17
You might be right @MGjhaud
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@kiran8 (15348)
• Mangalore, India
4 Jul 17
@PatZAnthony very true..we may end up making the same mistakes all over again
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
3 Jul 17
What if we don't take the knowledge we have now with us @kiran8
Things would be the same as what we have already experienced.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
5 Jul 17
I would go back for a day if I could come back to where I am. I would love to tell my father that I love him, it is one of my only regrets.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
6 Jul 17
@PatZAnthony So true but if offered the option, that is what I would want.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
6 Jul 17
Many have regrets, but we can't fix what has already happened in most cases @BelleStarr
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@bluesa (15023)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
3 Jul 17
@PatZAnthony , if I could start off knowing what I know now, then yes. If I would start off being as clueless as I was, no.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
3 Jul 17
That is the hard part @bluesa
If we can't take our knowledge with us, what is the point?
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@innertalks (21073)
• Australia
4 Jul 17
We already do this of course within our nightly dreams in part.
Even in these dreams, sometimes I am young again, reliving that past in some ways, including both old and new ways, at other times, I am as old as I am now, just sort of reviewing the past as myself now, taking in parts of it that I might have glossed over before.
If we could go back, and see some of these things that we didn't at that time, this might help us somehow to get over the hurt of our pasts. Past life regression claims to be able to do this. You go back in time, even to a past life, and relive it to learn from it now.
What is time, though?
Did God make it, with the rest of his creation, or is it something else again, perhaps only imagined to be real in our own minds, but then again, God has allowed this to be so too, as it was God who created our minds to be able to do just this, if this is what we are really doing here, didn't he then?
To me, time is an aspect of love, that stretches love out for us, to allow us to better see love's workings better, by our comparing instances of love now to our earlier views, and even to our future hoped views, across time.
In this way, we can see how love is working for us at any time. We can look back, look forwards, or live now, and love is always there as a part of every period of time, that has ever existed, or will ever exist.
Time then is the book that love writes in you, and you in it, giving substance to a life of love, listened to by time, and recorded by time, which is love's hand servant, or handmaiden, if time can be seen as operating for love, in this way.
@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
5 Jul 17
Thank you for such very interesting thoughts @innertalks
To me, time does not really exist.
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@TheInvisibleMan (17603)
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2 Jul 17
Yes, preferably for the time of the dinosaurs... I just love them!
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
5 Jul 17
That is a little too far back for me @TheInvisibleMan
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