We can't trade places. Our lives ae strangely our own...

[leeroysphitz]

But if you could. Would you just back up 10, 20 years? Would you go back to school? Would you revive the old friendships and retake the old haunts? Would I find a bunch of 40 yr old doppelgangers inhabiting rosemary Street, the 40 Watt, or on South Ashley ST.?

What would you change? Me? I'd change UNCG to UNC. Superficially not a big change but meaningful in the long run.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear leeroysphits...

I don't think I would change anything, actually...

Since I do like where I am right now, for the most part...

I dunno, though...

:shrug:

:hi:

[leeroysphitz]

3. Well that's good. Show me a person with no regrets and...

For you I got nothing. Except to say I love you and you deserve happiness and good luck! :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. What a sweet thing for you to say!

I avoid regrets like the plague!

They say that you shouldn't have done something...

I refuse to go there!

:hug:

[RedCappedBandit]

2. I'd back up a few years

I need to go back to high school and give it another shot.

[leeroysphitz]

5. I'm down with that.

I wouldn't need any Microsoft stock split tips or anything But if I only knew then what I can't understand know...

[Ellen Forradalom]

6. Gosh. I wouldn't have gotten married

But if I hadn't met him I wouldn't have my son! What a conundrum!

[badgerpup]

7. Reminds me of a story...

A traveler came into a town where everyone was sad, weighted down with troubles and sorrow.
Everywhere he went, the inn where stayed, the marketplace where he bought bread, the well where he stopped to get a drink, nothing but sorrow and gloom.

Being a clever, if not exactly wise man, he went to the mayor of the town and told him "I can help everyone with their troubles." At first the mayor didn't believe him, but the mayor was weighted with trouble himself, and so was willing to accept any help at this point, so he called all the people in town into the square and told them of the traveler's offer.

"Get a good sturdy sack", he said. "Put your trouble and sorrow into this sack and tie it off, and tomorrow, bring it to the village square."
Of course, there were cries and complaints of there being no sack large enough to contain their particular troubles, but in the end, the townsfolk all did as he'd asked them.

The next morning, they came to the square to find that the traveler had strung a strong rope from one side of the square to the other.
"Now", he said "Tie your bags to the rope and stand back." The townsfolk did so. Once everyone was standing well back from the rope the traveler said "You must now choose a sack to return home with."
All the townsfolk started looking for the smallest sack, naturally, but then this started them thinking. The miller's youngest child was not only frail, but of limited understanding. The cobbler's son had gone to be a soldier, and no one had heard from him in much too long.
The baker was a widow with seven children, all too young to be of much help to her...but they all needed to be fed. The butcher's aging mother was no treat to live with...on and on, they thought about how each of their neighbors had troubles of their own...and in the end, every person ran straight to his or her own sack and took it home with them.

The traveler smiled and continued his journey, leaving the town a much happier place than it had been when he arrived.
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I'd make some choices differently, if I knew then what I knew now...but then if I did, those choices probably wouldn't be the same ones.
Does that make sense?

[DarkTirade]

8. I wouldn't have gone to the college I went to.

Oh, and I would have had sex with the one girl I hesitated to ask for sex from, then later on found out she was a total nympho and would have done any kind of kinky thing I would have asked her to do. :P

Actually, mostly I probably would have made sure that I had a car when I went to college... that was a good portion of the reason I didn't do well in school. I couldn't find a job to keep a roof over my head while I was going to school so I had to drop down to part-time. But if I'd had a car, my job search would have been expanded and I might have been able to find something to fit with my schedule. And I wouldn't have wasted several hours a day just getting from point A to point B.

I suppose I'm too young to have that many regrets so far.

[petronius]

9. I would go back and use sunscreen religiously

Other than that, I'm pretty happy. (There are a couple of girls whose signals I missed, but live and learn...)

[Lethe]

10. i would go back, but only if i could have my present self coach my past self as a ghost

if that makes any sense?

i would love to go back 15 years and do it all over....but this time have me (my current self) as a ghost on my younger self's shoulder advising me what i should do.

things would be very interesting if that were the case....

[TheCentepedeShoes]

11. I would love to go back to college

and "do it right" this time. But I agree, without some kind of ability to see into the future, I would probably just make the same mistakes over again.

[zanne]

12. Exactly!

I wouldn't want to go back just to do all the stupid things I did when I was young. I'd want my "old lady" wisdom and a young, hot body!

[RainDog]

13. Go back and invest in start up named MicroSoft

in 1976 or so...and also this other company called Apple.

...although money doesn't buy happiness, it sure makes some of the unhappiness easier to deal with. actually, I think some woman has written a book that says money can buy happiness. I don't honestly believe that because, sure, superficial things are possible to gain, but real love and the well-being of your children and other family members isn't based upon money.

If I went back and became a gazillionaire, I would now be a philanthropist, but as far as what to do - I'd still have most of the same goals. I'd travel more, collect fine books to bequeath to institutions, and help people who need it.