If you could relive a year of your life, which one would you choose?

[Hardrada]

I would like my 23rd year back please.

[XemaSab]

1. 2002

Good times, great lads. :D

[SPKrazy]

2. Year 25- 1986

knowing what I know now


things would be different for sure

:shrug:


:cry:

[Hardrada]

5. I know. I feel mixed emotions too but it was mostly glorious.

My 23rd year was most of 1968.

[SPKrazy]

18. There's Just One Thing I Wouldn't Have Done..

but then there wouldn't be someone small and getting bigger in my life either.


:shrug:

okay mixed emotions

[fizzgig]

3. i would pick 2002 or 2004

if i were reliving a good year. if it were a bad year and i was reliving it to make better choices or have it suck less, it would be 2006

[idgiehkt]

4. 2000

No question about it.

[BlueIris]

6. The first 2/3rds of 1991 weren't totally horrible.

So I might do that again.

But if there's one year I want back in order to do some things correctly this time--2001. I'd be saving myself a world of hurt if I could zap back there do it all better again. No abusive boyfriend. No abusive roommates. My degree finished the way I want it to be. No financial upheaval. No health problems.

[hippywife]

7. The very first year of

our marriage. It was so magical. It still is wonderful but there's something so special about that first year.

[auntAgonist]

8. 1988 n/t

[Burma Jones]

9. For Fun?

1967 - I was 7 years old and living in Grad Student housing at UNC Chapel Hill. There were kids my age EVERYWHERE, an entire University I could wander without supervision, lots of College Students that were kind to children, I would go watch Dean Smith run Basketball Practice, I could just walk over to Kezar Stadium and see a Major College Football Game. There were kids from all over the world, so I had a friend whose Mom MADE CHINESE FOOD AT HOME, Brazilians, Japanese, Brits, French, Indians, Pakistanis, Dutch........Indoor and Outdoor swimming, it was just great......

If it were to avoid mistakes....I would say 1982, the year I graduated college, I would NOT have moved to Boston nor would I have moved to Houston......

If it were to relive moments of profound joy? 1998.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

10. Hard decision

I'd have to say that almost any year of the 1990s -excluding 1994-would be worth reliving

But 2000 and the half of 2001 before 9/11 would be my first choice to relive because I think it was the best period of my life

2000 was my first year of university when I was full of hope, idealism, optimism for my future and living under an Administration that had promoted peace and prosperity for eight years. I was living away from home for the first time and absolutely loved the experience of living on campus. I made several new friends and it just seemed that life couldn't get any better

The half of 2001 before 9/11 continued this phase of my life even as much as I grew to detest the * Administration. The future just looked so bright and life was so good. I would give anything to go back to that time

[mcscajun]

11. If I could do it all over just as it was, 1992.

It was a damned good year for me.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

14. And the United States as well

:hi:

[mcscajun]

31. Odd, that, but true.

I should point out that George Bush pére and I both became unemployed on the same day in November, but for vastly different reasons; yet, this was still a banner year for me.

And certainly, if we all had 1992 to live over, AND knew what we know now, things personally and nationally would certainly be very, very different.

[BlueIris]

27. I almost posted 1992.

Which is actually my favorite year, I think. It just wasn't my best year. Second best, perhaps, but not quite best.

[billyskank]

12. 2001

I got laid a lot (by my standards).

[XemaSab]

72. 2002

I dated three guys and lusted after a third.

Note well: this is 4x my normal track record. :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. If I got to do it right this time?

1975.

[Wapsie B]

15. 1984

No freak'n question about that one at all.

[mainegreen]

16. That one endless summer of '95.

With my best friend before she went mad.
Glorious summer. Time did not matter, the drugs flowed freely, and for some reason everyone had free time, good pot, a beater car and a great attitude.

Man. One long crazy time.
And it ended with a sunset.

[BlueIris]

28. Your best friend went mad?

If you don't mind my asking, what happened?

[mainegreen]

29. undiagnosed Bi-Polar mixed with major depression (genetic heredity)

and way more drugs than I knew she was into mixed with hypochondria and home issues.

Not good.

She's better now, but the person I knew went mad, and kinda .... did not emerge from the madness. The person I knew is totally gone and has been replaced with someone else.

:(

[GirlinContempt]

17. 1996

[Nicole]

19. 1978

I was 20. It was a wonderful time in my life.

[LynzM]

20. That's a tough decision.....

I'd take the glorious 7 months after I met Briarius and before I was pregnant, if I could just take part of a year. But the 5 months either side of that were pretty rough...

[AlCzervik]

21. 1985 and i was 18.

[Arugula Latte]

25. Me too. Except I was 19.

Fun times. *sigh*

[AlCzervik]

26. not for me, that was literally the wrost year of my life for serval reasons

i would love to go back and fix some things.

[leeroysphitz]

22. I don't know but if I could avoid reliving one it would be 1995.

Nothing went my way that year. I can still remember breathing a sigh of relief at new years...

[jane_pippin]

23. The year was 21* but only if

I could relive it without the depressing parts and/or with better self-awareness. It just so happened that the some of the best times I ever had were that year too, so I guess overall it was worth it.

*I'm pretty sure I was 21 in the year I'm thinking of. 21-23 was pretty much a blur. A fun blur--for the most part--though!

[catmandu57]

24. I'd love to be 18 again

so 1975 would work for me. i had everything going for me then, job, car, drugs, girls, loud rock and roll concerts, 3.2 beer over in Kansas, what the hell happened to me?

[Hand]

30. 23 for me, too.

Damn--I got laid a LOT that year! :rofl:

[Ariana Celeste]

32. when i was 17

i made a horrible mistake that i am still kicking myself for

[Rosemary2205]

33. 1979 - I'd like to go back and not get pregnant this time round

I was 17. My first time ever having sex and I got pregnant. I had an abortion. The whole thing fucked up my life for a very long time and took so much away from my whole family for way too long.

I'm good now, but I lost a lot of joy for about 20 years of feeling like shit. One day I woke up and said "fuck it" and decided to cut myself a break and go on. The 10 years since I did that have been incredibly enjoyable in spite of soem pretty severe trials.

But it would be nice to go back and not have sex in the first place so all the rest of the shit never happened.

[LostInAnomie]

34. I would like to relive Spring Break 2000 over again 52 times.

That was one crazy ass week!

[InvisibleTouch]

35. If it had to be lived exactly the same way again...

...I don't think there's a single year I'd want to re-live.

[Hardrada]

37. I would like to do 1968 again because

all changed so much and I changed and what I think is "Hey, wait a minute. Run that by again."

[Art_from_Ark]

62. You, too, eh?

You said exactly what I think about that very eventful year.

[dysfunctional press]

36. 1974- if i could do it over, knowing what i know now...

and then change the course of how things have gone since then.
i'd have been 13 at the time.

[BlueIris]

38. This is such an interesting thread.

I can't believe more people didn't post in it.

[driver8]

39. June 1984 to May 1985... My senior year in college.

I stayed at school for the summer and had the best summer I ever had. I met a really cool girl the first week back at school and dated her until second semester.

Second semester I went to Washington, DC for an internship and had a blast!!

That was a great year.

[wildhorses]

40. could i please go back and do 15 all over again

i promise i will not fuck it up this time...

[Phillycat]

41. I'm not going back.

Only forward. :) I wouldn't change a thing.

[unpossibles]

43. same here! Even the crappy moments in life add up to

how freaking awesome I am now.

:)


and modest. ;)

Honestly though, I try to enjoy life and not look back too much, other than to learn from mistakes. And I firmly believe that a moment which can be "bad" at the time, can end up with good consequences and vice versa. Hmm. What if my current life is the result of a parallel me going back in time and changing some event...? Damn it.

[bleedingheart]

59. I have to agree...my life up to this point has made me who I am

and I am happier today than I was as a younger woman or a kid...

[ileus]

42. year 25 1995...

[NashVegas]

44. I Would Like My 18th Year Back

My father and grandmother were dying, and I was unable to cope with the pain of it, and offer them comfort.

[NewWaveChick1981]

45. The year when I was 21, 1983.

There is a LOT I would have done differently. Many things that happened that year set the course for years to come. I had some major decisions that year, and not all of them were correct. ;)

And besides, that year had TONS of great New Wave/alternative/postpunk music... :bounce: :toast: :woohoo:

[NewJeffCT]

46. 1998

The year I tied the knot with my ex-wife. I'd have put a halt to it 6 months before the date.

[crim son]

47. Twenty-six.

I'd moved to Boston because I was in love with a Norwegian man who didn't think an American could survive a move to Oslo. Ha! Anyhow, after I was there for a few months he called and asked if he could visit on his way back to Norway, "to talk about 'us' ". I'd been so hurt by him that I was abrupt during the call and made it seem as if my whole world did not revolve around whether or not I was with him. He never visited and it took me a decade to recover. Now, I live in MAINE and I'm doing just fine. If I could go back I'd do everything differently.

[Hardrada]

66. A friend of ours separated (amiably enough) from her husband

She moved to Maine and reinvented herself. And enjoys whale watching and the cooler weather.

[crim son]

78. Maine is the place to reinvent yourself, certainly.

Hardrada, I like this: "...looking out of windows..."

[Hardrada]

85. Thanks. It's more fun in cold weather here (and In Maine)

seeing the blowing snow and all else that constitutes a winter landscape!

[guitar man]

48. 2006

My daughter was born in january of '06, best year of my life so far. she's getting so big now, I want my little baby back :cry:

The best thing was when mommy went back to work on the weekends and she was all mine Saturday and Sundays. Giving her bottles was my favorite part of the day :)

[BlueIris]

49. Awwwwww.

Swoon.

[guitar man]

50. :)

:hi:

[Mojambo]

51. If I could change things? 27

Just for fun? 17

[Auggie]

52. 1983,

when I dated a very sexy woman, got a new job, and moved to San Francisco. I was 25.

[ceile]

53. Definitely my 22nd.

Made some VERY bad decisions that I'm still dealing with.

[Zavulon]

54. My 21st

That's the year I started smoking, like a dumb fuck.

[Left Is Write]

55. 19.

[Sanity Claws]

56. Would I have to relive the years that followed too?

While it might be fun to be 19 again, I wouldn't want to relive certain years that followed, particularly if I were not any wiser and likely to do the same things.

[Hardrada]

58. No, just the one year you choose.

[boston bean]

57. 1987, god I was stupid. nt

[u4ic]

60. 1988

I would love to go back to that year, and change a decision that affected my life for the worse.



edit: I can't spell lately...

[bertha katzenengel]

61. about any from 1993 - 1999 eom

[Dinger]

63. 33- 1993

I can't say why:blush:

[Hardrada]

64. The Nineties seem popular here!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

65. 2000.

It was the year my sister died (December 19th, 2000). We had gotten really close just before she died and I'd like to have a chance to hang out with her again. I miss her a lot. If she wouldn't have been in that car accident, my nephew would be six years old.
Duckie

[badgerpup]

67. Is that a "re-live' or "do-over"?

Have one year I'd re-live, (making a few crucial decisions differently, of course...) but if it's a do-over, I'll take this last year.
Where do I get in line? :silly:

[Hardrada]

76. Re-live (but take notes)!

[zingaro]

99. Oh well then - in that case?

Those would be some seriously marketable notes.

:evilgrin:

[momophile]

68. as in I get to change things? my 15th year

I wouldn't have lost my virginity then and especially not to the jerk that I lost it to.

[NNadir]

69. My 18th.

[Pied Piper]

70. Year 25 (1989-90)

I came out that year and moved away from home. I would only do this if I could retain my current knowledge (if not, I would have still taken the same path). HUGE year in my life. I'm happy with the relocation, but not necessarily the schools and jobs involved, etc. But, for the most part, I'm happy with the path that was laid before me, and the one I chose to follow...

[zingaro]

71. Hard to say. If it were a Groundhog Day thing

and I just had to be stuck there? 1987. I was definitely feelin the love back then.

If it were a course adjustment in the road of my life thing? Either 1988 or 1993, and it would be damned hard to choose which adjustment to make.

[AshevilleGuy]

73. 1967 - only if I could stay there!

It was the Summer of Love, Sgt Peppers was released on July 1, I started into college and my world was PERFECT.

Okay, where is the time machine parked??

[Hardrada]

77. I liked 1967 a whole lot too though I didn't get out to SF

and the Haight and the Fillmores. We will all have to chip in for a time machine.

[AshevilleGuy]

91. Oh, I didn't go out there

Back then it wasn't as easy to just get in the car and go on a long trip. But it was just the whole atmosphere of that time. Maybe it was being 17 and high school was over with forever - liberation from a very bad scene; I celebrate May 22nd every year as that anniversary!

But can you believe it's been 40 years? Where did it go??

[Hardrada]

95. Where have all the flowers gone?

Where are the snows of yesteryear?

I kmow. I know.




But in Buddhism, the transience of everything is one of the first truths that is taught. So......it's OK.

[UrbScotty]

74. If I get to change things? 2006. Otherwise, 1998. (nt)

[fortyfeetunder]

75. 1972

The year I got to enjoy the consequences of a decision I made for myself-- going to the school of my choice.

[raccoon]

79. My first year of college.

It was like I'd died and gone to heaven.

[Hardrada]

100. That was my favorite college year too!

All kinds of possibilities.

[RedStateShame]

80. The year when I left for college. Screw that.

I'd hang out with my buddies, play rock and roll more seriously, and not tangle myself in college loans and indentured servitude in cube farm slavery.

[Giant Robot]

81. 1994

Maybe I could have another chance to do it right.

[jpgray]

82. First year. I could get lots of thinking done

:D

[greatauntoftriplets]

83. 2004.

Three people I have since lost were still around then. I want them back.

[Hardrada]

86. I know what you mean. In the year I picked

everybody was still alive...and active too. Relatives and dear friends.

[seaglass]

84. 2001 I think. I would want to change a life altering career move

but I would really NOT want to re-live 9/11.

Imagine if you could really re-live a year knowing what you know now but with no evidence. Who would listen to me about 9/11? Maybe I would have 9 months of proving my ability to predict the future and people would listen to me or maybe I'd be just another crazy person shooting people at Logan airport to prevent them from getting on those planes.

[Hardrada]

92. I think there was a Twilight Zone episode about someone

who got back to the year JFK was killed but nobody believed him and he got put in an insane asylum or something.

[GalleryGod]

87. The Summer of Love (oops! I mean '67)

Damn fine Summer:hippie:

[Javaman]

88. My 28th year - 1991

I was out in California working as a cinematographer on music videos. It was a very exciting time in my life.

[ronnykmarshall]

89. End of 1999 and all of 2000

The end of my wild days and start of my married life.

[KamaAina]

90. 1990

Only full year spent in N.O. Obviously, that in itself has merit: Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, etc., etc. (Did I mention I lived right up the street from the Maple Leaf?) But the point of 1990 redux would be to see if I could have found a way to support myself, so as to avoid, say, 1991-94. :(

That way, I'd (maybe) already be around, doing something about recovery besides just posting about it here.

[ptvet]

93. Gotta go with 1983

Was fun as it was...parties on a couple of Columbia River beaches
Be nice to experience those friends and times again....

[Xipe Totec]

94. Tough Call. Either 1973 or 1978

My moment of bliss, and my moment of hell.

Bliss to live again once more, and hell to amend and do over.

[Hardrada]

96. It would be fun to have someone put down a 1950's year

or earlier! Just a thought.

[AshevilleGuy]

101. Okay, 1958. Vo-la-re, ho, ho... NT

[Hardrada]

105. I liked that year.

Really 1957-1962 were also charmed years for me. In a different way from my early adult time.

[BreweryYardRat]

97. Year 14.5-15.5, please, assuming I can remember and fix my mistakes.

I'd have moved in with my dad a year earlier and saved myself a lot of trouble and emotional damage.

[LibraLiz1973]

98. 1989 for a myriad of reasons

The most important being that I would like to go back and change a series of poor decisions that I've paid for over and over and over and over again since then.

Also, my grandmother & great grandmothers would still be alive.

One of my closest high school friends would still be alive.

If I could go back and tell myself ONE thing, it would be to excercise every day & eat right.

1989 screwed me royally. Or, I screwed 1989 up so royally I haven't been able to get over it.

[gr8dane_daddy]

102. 1996 when i was 26...

best shape of my life, making good money, etc.

[RiverStone]

103. 21!

I had not even the slightest clue how much POWER I had back then to MAKE my life what I dreamed it could be. So much flexibility, freedom, and wild wide open horizon's to explore...

Now I know. :think:

Still hoping to create that life, just have a lot (TONS) more responsibilities then I did at 21.

[Hardrada]

104. I felt that about my college freshman year.

Lots of choices.

[Forkboy]

106. None

Each year,no matter how bad (and the last two have been hell),has made me who I am.It's like the butterfly effect.If I had gotten that sled when I was six I might well be a Republican today :)

[Guava Jelly]

107. This 2007

I want a do over.
Just to fix a few bad judgments

[Qanisqineq]

108. If I could relive it and try to change things?

This year. 2007. Yeah, it's not even March yet and is so far the worst year of my life. Maybe if I could redo 2006 again, 2007 wouldn't be so bad. I dunno.

[MissMillie]

109. 2005

everything just seemed to be good for me.

I'm hoping this year turns out the same.