If you had to go back!...
By katsmeow1213
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
United States
June 26, 2008 7:15am CST
After a discussion I started yesterday, I've learned there are so many people, actually probably like 99% who regret things they've done in their past.
So here's today's question..
If you HAD to go back and RE-LIVE your previous years knowing everything you know today.. what would you do?
Would you do something different, or would you still put yourselves in those embarassing, shameful, and regretted situations? Could you bring yourself to do those things?
I often think about this. I wouldn't want to change the way my life has turned out, which means I would HAVE to do all those things I'm ashamed of and regret. I sometimes wonder if I can bring myself to do them considering that I'm a different person today.
3 responses
@SusanLee (1920)
• United States
26 Jun 08
Yes there are things I would do differently.
One is I would have finished school and went on to get an even better education.
I would NOT have married at 18 and started a family with the man I did.
Some would say but you wouldn't have had your children. True, but there are many other children I could have had and didn't because I didn't take that route.
You can't miss who was never created, I had a lot of eggs that never turned into people.
My first two children suffered greatly because of decsions I made back then.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
26 Jun 08
My question was if you want back with the full knowledge you have today, including the knowledge of your children.
So you would still remember your current children, and know your whole life that you never had them.
You could do that?
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
26 Jun 08
No No, don't be sorry. I just wanted to make sure you fully understood that you'd remember your children forever. You may have guilt and regret about not bringing them into the world if you went back and did things differently.
I know it would be a difficult decision to make. I have many of the same thoughts due to my past with my oldest son, but as I said, I don't think I could change anything.
@gemini_rose (16264)
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26 Jun 08
Its a hard one to answer really this, because I love my eldest son dearly, but I went through so much with his biological father that the thought of having to go through all that again to get my son is just too much. So I would have to say that I would change that, I really would do things differently as much as I love my family.
@DonnaLawson (4032)
• United States
26 Jun 08
I would do things differently, like I said in the last discussion, I would try and save more money for my future, that is for sure.. I think that I would have also chosen a different job that the one that I wasted 17 years on.. I would have chosen one that paid more and had better benefits such as a better retirement plan.. I have one other thing that I would have changed, or would not have done at all but I will keep that one to myself.. Most of the other decisions that I made would be the same..
