Would You Go Back?

There is also one thing I would change. I know I made a mistake, but what if I go back and change it? The past is known, the future unknown.

you’re touching on something a lot of people wrestle with — that tension between acceptance of the past and the fantasy of a single, surgical edit to it. If we’re speaking hypothetically (and without any time paradoxes or butterfly-effect disasters), choosing just one thing can feel almost impossible because every decision is tangled with others. But it’s also revealing — the thing we’d change usually points to a moment we still carry deep in our hearts.

I think we all have things in our lives we could have changed or done differently. But I think we need to remember that it is because of those things that we are who we are today. I would go back in time for a period of time but I wouldn't want to stay there. I could see my BFF again. That would be nice But I also made a lot of mistakes and I don't want to go through them again. I'm a curious person so I would like to go into the future more than the past I think. See what I will miss when I am gone. See how my kids do in the future. Things like that.

The only thing I want from the past is my husband.

Yes, there are certain things I would do differently.

Everyone has a regret or two, big or small. What has happened to us throughout the course of our lives has helped to shape the person we are today. If we could go back, would we be the same? Could we really ''fix'' what happened, or change it? Was it even possible? If a person has a huge regret, did something or said something they now think they never should have done, going back won't fix it, even if we could. Would it alter our future? Would it make a difference, or improve our lives in some way? Sometimes, we just have to let things go...

Man, I don’t know. I don’t want to have to go through the same hardships. Not that I’m doing great now. I know a lot of my mistakes would be getting medical help long before I did. If I had been married though, I’m sure I’d have a lot of mistakes going through my head.

I would for sure .

I guess I will, just to enjoy again the good stuff when I was young, lo! Of course, I will never go back to where I need to do a lot of reviewing for an exam and lots of assignments, nor go back to where my mom gave me my well-deserve spanking because of my stubborn head, lol! But I would love to go back to where my mom takes me to the bakeshop every day to buy me a piece of cake for my school snacks, and go back to the time my mom will always buy me an ice cream and other sweet snacks after picking me up from school. Heheheh I would love to see again the sunshine that I always enjoy whenever I am at school or playing with my cousins, especially on weekends... I'll go back just to experience the good old days, but will never change a thing.

Oh yes, there is one thing in my past that I wish could be changed.

Always too painful and too much on the mind I would not. Besides it is said that even if people could go back to a certain time and age they would just do all the same things again because that was how it had to be

I would like to back in time before computers were used.

Sure there are things I'd do differently but I can't dwell on them or I'd go mad.

Well the only thing I would really go back to change is losing people I love, and I am thinking of specifically my uncle. That affected a lot

Possibly. Of course things I would change would always involve other people, so it might not result in a happy ending.

No, I wouldn't because I learned from those mistakes, and I like what I have now.

I would never want to go back. What happened happened and going back might change everything for the worst.

Your question does elicit great thought. Of course there are a million things I'd love to go back in time to change (especially knowing what I know now), but like you said all those past experiences (good and bad) have made us who were are today. Also, what if we were to go back and change one mistake we've made in our past, and it changes the entire future (who we are and where we are today)? I may be satisfied with that one thing I went back to fix, but I might totally be disgusted of what it made me become in current time.

I don't want to. I had some lucky breaks that may not repeat. I think I got what I deserved - just rewards for my decisions.

Knowing all the past mistakes I made it would be interesting to go back in time and have a do-over. You kind of wonder how or if things would turn out differently. I would have changed my job choice. I had 2 teaching offers at the same time. I always wondered if I made the right decision.