If You Could Go Back in Time and Change

[Misty_Morning]

One thing.

Just one thing.

What would it be?




For me....I wouldn't make a certain phone call. This ONE phone call shaped entire my life and is the reason for where I am now.


I could have hung up at the last minute, but I didn't. And now my entire life has been dictated by that one 60 second phone call.

But then again, if I had not made that one call I wouldn't know the sweetest love that could ever be.

Such heartache to get to where I am now...enveloped in a love that knows no boundaries.

But knowing what I know now....could I do it all again?


What about you?


Could you do it all again?

Or do you wish it had never happend?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I'd take a silenced .22 pistol to a certain jail cell in Berlin in about 1926. One shot, so many problems solved.

 

[Belegon]

The problem I always have is the 'what thens'...

I therefore can only think of a few things, because the big things are too much of who I am now.

Would I not marry? But what of my children? A future/past without them is unimaginable.

...and if I change something recent, that hasn't had full ramifications? I can think of something that happened this last spring where my first instinct is "hell yes, I'd change that!" But what if the fallout from that mistake creates a more positive future than would've happened without it? Do I dare take that chance?

Alright, fine.

I'd buy Microsoft stock in 1985. Lots.

 

[carrie-on]

I would go back to 1975 and apologize to my Dad for being such a selfish bitch. We got into an argument about a week before he died and I never had the chance to tell him how much I loved Him.

 

[pellso27]

not fucking that girl in High School! I passed and should not have

 

[rgraham666]

I'm torn.

Either not propose to my ex-wife.

Or get started writing in my teens.

 

[Stella_Omega]

There must have been an episode where I was dropped on my head as an infant. I'd like for that not to have happened. Who knows where I'd be now?

 

[Nirvanadragones]

All the times that I've not been true to myself.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

I wish I had not transferred out of Embry Riddle in 89. Then I never would have met my wife and I'd have a degree I can actually make money with.

That or change my major to computer science back then and be a lead programmer by now.

 

[rbijon]

Now that I am stuck in this Time, I would have taken enough fuel to keep my time machine going!

 

[evanslily]

I wouldn't have confided in my sister that my husband was TS. I guess it would've all come out eventually but not in the explosive way it did. That Saturday afternoon confession tore my whole family apart. Hey ho, you live and learn...

Interesting idea for a thread--thanks

 

[impressive]

One thing.

Just one thing.

What would it be?

I would make it not hurt.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I'm torn between two options.

1) Asked out every girl I was attracted to in high school. I feel that if I had tried harder to be with someone in high school, I would be better at being with women now as an adult.

2) Pursued harder for the MILF waitress that I used to know. She is the one that got away. The one that I wanted the most out of every other woman I have ever met. I think I actually had a chance, and I blew it. I'd like that month back to do over again.

 

[Trombonus]

I regret what happened with my first girlfriend, and wish I'd handled it differently, but I wouldn't change what happened. I needed the bad things in my life to happen so that I could grow and become the person I am today. If they hadn't then I wouldn't be me anymore. I kinda like me, and wouldn't want anything bad to happen to me.

Besides, I'm perfect anyway.

 

[john-the-author]

Divorcing my first wife when the door was wide open for me to do so in 1986 rather than stick around for another 9 years. Would've saved me 9 years and just shy of a million dollars, both of which would be nice to have back. Possibly marrying the star of "Kim and Me" and having kids with her. Kids might've been nice after all, I've come to realize.

Also, exercising more (read "at all") so I wouldn't have become diabetic.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I wouldnt gone to medical school and been a GP in Mayberry.

 

[BlackShanglan]

There must have been an episode where I was dropped on my head as an infant. I'd like for that not to have happened. Who knows where I'd be now?

If it took that sense of wry humor away, I'd never forgive you.

I'd go back about two years and have the vet x-ray the left foreleg. Find the God-damned osteosarcoma in time to save her. She'd still be here.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Shanglan-- You still mourn, I am so sorry.

not fucking that girl in High School! I passed and should not have

I hear you, buddy.

 

[SweetWitch]

I would have followed my instincts that night when I felt someone watching me. I would have gone straight to the police station like that little voice of reason told me to.

 

[tickledkitty]

I would have followed my instincts that night when I felt someone watching me. I would have gone straight to the police station like that little voice of reason told me to.

Molly.

I wish I'd have walked out that terrible day 4 years ago when I realized my marriage was over. I wanted to, but I decided to cut him some slack. Nothing has been the same since.

 

[SensualCealy]

Two things,

I wish I wasn't so insecure that I didn't go to college right after highschool.
Which in turn would provided me with a career to go back to after I had maternity leaves with my kids.

Two, I wish I had waited longer before getting married-love him but I always think, what if...

I keep thinking there has to be a reason why I'm going through what I am right now, there has to be, if not, wtf was I put here for?

C

 

[BlackShanglan]

I would have followed my instincts that night when I felt someone watching me. I would have gone straight to the police station like that little voice of reason told me to.

So sorry. I'd give a dozen of the little "could have saved a grand" go-backs to spare you that one.

 

[SweetWitch]

So sorry. I'd give a dozen of the little "could have saved a grand" go-backs to spare you that one.

Thank you. You're a sweet horsey. The difference in my life would have been incredible, but it helped to shape the person I am now. I am fortunate to have discovered my own inner strength, so that's something.

 

[SweetWitch]

Molly.

I wish I'd have walked out that terrible day 4 years ago when I realized my marriage was over. I wanted to, but I decided to cut him some slack. Nothing has been the same since.

We always want to believe that things will change. I know I do.

 

[SlickTony]

1. Worn my glasses on a certain night in January of 1970. If I had done that, I would not have crossed the student union building to commiserate with this guy who was in my geology class about what a bitch the test had been. I'd have seen it was someone else, and then not gone. And then I wouldn't have met his friend, whom I later married. OTOH, I wouldn't have my daughter, who is a lovely, wonderful person. Who knows?
2. Gone after my MA in creative writing at McNeese State. The head of the department at that time was Robert Olen Butler. But I was still tuckered out from having my son, and I didn't know how assistanceships worked. I thought I'd be working but not being any money ahead, and with homework to boot, and the thought just exhausted me.
3. Hung up on a rash of calls I got from magazine service salespeople in '04. I thought it was just one or two of them. They all said they were "your magazine service," and they needed to update their records. I've got most of them paid off but I think I'll never be free of the magazines themselves.
4. Chosen a different roofing and siding company in '06.
5. Oh, and raised more hell when I was young.