If you could

[ABSTRUSE]

go back in time knowing what you know now...would you?

 

[TxRad]

go back in time knowing what you know now...would you?

Only so far and then I'd wear a safety line. Being thirty again and knowing what I know now would be a dangerous and deadly combination in so many ways.

 

[desiteratauk]

go back in time

Hell yes!
desiteratauk

 

[3113]

What are the perimeters here? Do you mean, go back within our own lifetimes? Like back to being in high school and 16 years old? Or go back in time like, visiting the Renaissance and hanging with Da Vinci?

 

[Trinique_Fire]

go back in time knowing what you know now...would you?

Yes, and I'd still try to make it work all over again.

 

[Chantilyvamp]

go back in time knowing what you know now...would you?

Maybe Probably better I don't though but give me a teleporter and then we can talk more

 

[Stella_Omega]

yeah... Even though I vividly remember how blissful ignorance was-- I would like to do it over again with what I've learned at hand.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

I even know when and where I'd go and what I'd say differently and just never go up that hill.

 

[DesertPirate]

I even know when and where I'd go and what I'd say differently and just never go up that hill.

I know that same place
I would change a few things

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I can think of a few things I would do differently.

I would have asked Jana out right after she said she wasn't looking to date anyone right now (she was with someone the next day), and a few other dozen people in high school. I would have tried to get my drivers license earlier. Would have tried to keep my first job a little longer. Would have asked out a few people at my second job. Would have looked harder to find a job in my career field, and maybe found something with coworkers.

Hell, I would like to make every decision I ever made over again. I really don't like the choices I have made in life.

 

[_Lynn_]

To change anything, I'd have to start at the beginning, as a small child.
Going back any other place wouldn't help.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Nope. I function in the now and try not to grasp at the past. I've worked too hard to get where I am.

 

[rgraham666]

Nope. I've never seen the sense in changing the past. I'd be a different person if I changed the past.

I like who I am now.

 

[_Lynn_]

Nope. I function in the now and try not to grasp at the past. I've worked too hard to get where I am.

It's so true.

Changing one thing, no matter how small, would put us in a different place, but would it be better? We might 'think' so, yet there's no way to know that.

Any change would put me on another path in life. It might have taken me to prison for life, to alcoholism, to prostitution, to drug addiction, or any number of things far worse than what I went through.

I might not like all the challenges I faced, but they brought me here, and I like me today.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

It's so true.

Changing one thing, no matter how small, would put us in a different place, but would it be better? We might 'think' so, yet there's no way to know that.

Any change would put me on another path in life. It might have taken me to prison for life, to alcoholism, to prostitution, to drug addiction, or any number of things far worse than what I went through.

I might not like all the challenges I faced, but they brought me here, and I like me today.

Totally. I own my mistakes, no matter how cringe-worthy.

Besides, according to Dr. Who, changing a fixed timeline will cause a paradox and rip holes in the universe or somesuch.

 

[Safe_Bet]

Hell yeah! I would have run to Amy when we first met (instead of running away for months and months), I wouldn't have been so despondent at times because I'd know that I'd eventually succeed at having two wonderful children and I would have told my "ex-family" to fuck off years ago, instead of feeling the shame and embarrassment of always trying to "keep the peace", while they kept the hate and bigotry.

 

[ChainedEros]

Yes, I would. Absolutely.

 

[damppanties]

(If you could) go back in time knowing what you know now...would you?

And live it all over again? No, thanks. I'm trying to get it over with as soon as possible.

It will never be perfect, whatever you do. There will always be something you will regret, something you wish you could have done / changed, something more you wished you had. Always.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

No. I see no reason to go backward in time. I wouldn't mind having a glimpse of the future though.

 

[CarolinaHeat]

no. I've learned from my mistakes and they are part of who I am today. If I went back and made a change, I'd probably make all new mistakes that I might regret.

I've always tried to follow my dreams and do the things I want. I don't want to ever say "I wish I would've" or "I wonder what would've happened if I'd done this". I make my decisions and stick by them whether they're right or wrong.

 

[angelicminx]

Some days, yes. But most days, not a chance. The only major thing at the moment that I wish I had done and didn't would probably have changed my path too far from where I am now. I know it would mean that I would not have my beautiful daughter, and I wouldn't give her up for anything. All of my roads have lead me to the place I am now, to who I am now, and as much as I hate some of the things in my life, I have a far greater love for the good things. For the most part I am extremely happy. Only a damned good lawyer can make things better than they are now... or winning the lottery, lol.

 

[Ravishing]

I read that and found myself thinking long and hard. But it came right down the same conclusion as always. I had a friend ask me that once. Knowing all the problems I've got in my past. They thought I'd want to remove it all. As then, and same as now, I find myself shaking my head. I do not see a point in going back. Changing anything. Even the worst pieces of my life. Would change the me I am right now. I may not love all of my life. It may cause me undue amounts of grief .. and tears. But I would never .. ever .. go back and change anything. Doing so would greatly, I believe, change the woman I am today. My strength .. is not letting those bad events ... win .. as it were. Striving to 'beat' them by continuing on with life. By working my way .. however slowly at times .. through each bad moment. Arising out the other side .. worn out .. vulnerable .. changed .. but better able to survive the next time.

 

[feeeriek]

No...

 

[jomar]

Yes, because my ever changing rules of time travel and eternal happiness would apply.

Then again, wish in one hand, shit in the other and all that.

 

[glynndah]

If I could come back here and find my present and my future unchanged, oh, yeah. I'd have a lot more fun. And there's a certain guy in the front seat of that car who would, too. *grin*