If you could start over part deux

elvistheking44

You're still gonna have problems, even if you do change things........

Just because you went to college doesn't make you problem free. If you never started smoking you would still have problems. If you chose this career over another, you're still gonna have problems. Live with the choices and mistakes you made and keep on livin!

redrock

If I could reverse time, I still wouldn't change anything. As other said, all my experiences (good or bad) made me who I am today and most probably helped me cope with a huge 'change of path' a few years ago. We go forward learning from our successes and mistakes - this forges our character. Of course, I so wish my life hadn't gone on a tangent but such is it! I guess one can always think 'what if I did this/didn't do this, I could have had a better job/be happier/be rich, etc.' But then again, maybe not!

ShimmyMommy

I think this is true.

decides2dream

faceintheclouds wrote:

Like the last thread but career and life on this one.
If you could reverse time and do it again what would you change?
I sure as shit would not be at work on a stupid weekend shift missing my kids on this awesome day.
I'd do way better in school and be a dr or nurse. Something in the medical field. And I would have never started smoking. And not fucked up my credit. And not ever put up with bs from a gf or spouse.

right now, first and foremost i would change my words and actions on august 26, 2011. how's that for specific? :?

in regards to my life overall...i just don't know....
i look back and see many areas where i could've made a different choice, maybe a better one? hard to tell.
thing is though, if i did take that different route, would my life be better today? so many of the choices i mull over, reconsider, wonder...what-if....well, if i DID choose the what-if, i'd not have the experiences, the friendships and all else....that i have right now. if i did get my BFA in interior design instead of art education, maybe i'd have a better career, maybe.....but...i'd never have gone on for my MA degree, and THAT add so many life experiences and friendships i'd not want to miss out on. so idk...i think right now, kinda pointless for me to look backwards, i need to start looking forwards and figuring out just wtf i want to do with my life and how i can change it for the better. it's the only place i can have any control, what's done is done...

sorry for rambling :P...got a lot on my mind, very much attuned to this thread...

Dru_Cortez

hostis wrote:

I wouldn't change a single choice. ever. (even the ones I knew were worng at the time). I love and appreciate where i am now and any changes in choice would mean I am not right here, right now, being the person I like to be.

I like to think that I
could agree with this...
... + it's true that every decision
I made led me HERE,
where I am quite content.
But hey,
who really knows?
Mayhap I coulda been a millionaire
if I'd only used Irish Spring
instead of Ivory
all those years ago.
The world is a weird place man!
Cheers.

Poncier

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

I wouldnt change anything...
Yeah, like everyone else I have made some blunders in my life...
But fuck it...Ya live and ya learn....

Im happy right now...
Kathy is happy...
Our parents are alive and well....


I guess thats all that matters.....

You wouldn't go back and secure that cooler of sausage???

juan lester

i'd have learned to play the uke 30 years ago, instead of 5

i'd have had more respect for others in my teens and 20s - especially my folks. i knew everything. they knew nothing, and could just fuck off for all i cared. god i was such an asshole.

Then i heard Pearl Jam! and still remained fairly dickheaded for another 6 to 8 years.

funny thing is i really thought i knew everything! so, i guess another regret is not writing down the meaning of life when i knew it. now i'm the age my parents were and, like them, know nothing.

perhaps if i played the uke as a child maybe less prone to assholedness? probably not. maybe though.

i do know that dwelling on shit can be super corrosive to the psyche - makes much more sense to live in the present tense (which i saw in vancouver and was fucking awesome)

Dissidentman

I would have purchased this bucket hat in black also. Opens up more of the wardrobe.