If you could go back in time ...

[Beanzy]

... to redo something you did or didn't do, what would it be?

Me, I'd stop telling mom over the phone to go to the mall and walk. Instead I'd have driven the 45 minutes to her house and insisted we walk together at the mall to get her in shape. And do this at least once a week.

But I didn't. And sometime later she suffered a massive stroke and spent the last 22 years of her life a hemiplegic. Poor mom.

 

[budman]

Wow. Deep. Sorry man.

For me...can’t come up with anything because everything delivered some good and it is hard to separate.

 

[CABilly]

Now that I think of it I wish I'd known what I know now, which is that being a veterinarian would be a great career for me. Instead I fucked off high school and took 8 years off between then and college to start a career. Now I'm too old to start from scratch.

 

[bojangle]

Now that I think of it I wish I'd known what I know now, which is that being a veterinarian would be a great career for me. Instead I fucked off high school and took 8 years off between then and college to start a career. Now I'm too old to start from scratch.

Animals don't talk back?

 

[Agent Orange]

Tell my 20 yo self to stop being a pussy. No joke.

 

[CABilly]

Animals don't talk back?

And the aggressive ones are easier to forgive. I love my current gig but yeah. Can’t have the same deal and be my own boss this way.

 

[motomania2007]

I'd tell my younger self where to find my wife sooner...

There are a couple of career decisions I would have adjusted as well.

 

[doc4216]

I only have one, honestly, the rest made me who I am.

I would go back to Nov 4th, 2004 and tell myself to not get on my friend's dirt bike that day, so I could avoid breaking my femur. It wasn't the pain or the recovery that I would like to avoid, it is the decade that followed of self imposed doubt, loss of range of motion, and the follow on knee issues that I will have forever. I would like to think I wouldn't have gained the weight bc the endless pain made me not want to run, or the pressure to recover quickly could have pushed me to rehab correctly and not lose so much ROM. Seriously, in yoga, I can't sit back on my ankles, since my knee just doesn't bend that far.

That is my one. I have tried to fix my mistake and work on taking the weight off my knee, hike more, run more, walk more, stretch, yoga, and biking to make sure in my 60s I can still do all these things but only time will tell. Until then, I will do the best I can.

 

[Removed 3]

Every now and then, I look in the rear view mirror. But I have no regrets. Everything I did or did wrong led up to today. There were things I learned that could not be taught with words. There are enough things I can change today that can alter what can happen in the future.

 

[SM610]

I love my life, truely. But i have many regrets. I think to go back and change something would make me something other than this. So part of being alive is having made mistakes and having to live well despite that.

I regret any and all the pain ive caused to anyone, well...almost everyone:laughing Without the time machine I'll have to hope that the stupid things ive done arent remembered by others as much as i remember them. I think about it quite a bit.

 

[Godsdarling]

I would tell my friend Stacy not to pull the trigger. That I was there to listen. I would tell my dads doc not to put him on the helicopter as he would suffer another aneurysm from the elevation change. I would make sure I went the back roads instead of hitting the freeway traffic jam to make sure I was there before my uncle died.

 

[cheez]

I'd go back to 2010 or 2011 and make sure my youngest foster brother got the therapy and assistance he needed, so that he didn't wind up homeless and addicted to heroin, with a restraining order from my parents' place, squatting in their carport storage room and either accidentally or intentionally burning the house down with my mom and stepdad inside in 2016. They got out, but it was a near thing, and my stepdad has burn scars on his arms from trying to get my mom out the door safely.

Or maybe to 1996, when my mom got pushed over a desk by a student, injuring her back and creating an opioid dependence that has lasted to today.

Dunno. I'd probably want to use it a few times.

 

[Maddevill]

I would have started saving for my retirement wayyyyy earlier. I had a full pension at the company I work for. They promised to take care of us in exchange for our loyalty. Right up until they decided to default our pension and give it to the PBGC.
I tell my kids " Always PAY YOURSELF FIRST"

Mad

 

[CABilly]

I would have started saving for my retirement wayyyyy earlier. I had a full pension at the company I work for. They promised to take care of us in exchange for our loyalty. Right up until they decided to default our pension and give it to the PBGC.
I tell my kids " Always PAY YOURSELF FIRST"

Mad

That's another big one. It's easy to say "I'd buy AAPL/AMZN and be a billionaire today!" but really, I could have chosen a different employer and be on track to retire with a 6-figure pension by my early 40s. Now I'm playing catch-up on my 403b, foregoing luxuries today in the hopes of avoiding eating dog food when I'm old.

 

[Bay Arean]

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self not to be an a-hole about various things, younger me wouldn't listen anyway. It took years to grow up and its ongoing at that.

I have finally reached a point where I don't physically blush at some earlier stupidity but man, I was a callow fellow.

If I really had to come up with one, I would want to test my relationship with my first wife. It was just too easy in the hazy 70s to move in and play house. It still is. Prior to the groovy years, it once was a lot harder to live together with social endorsement. This tested relationships, as well as military tours and such. If your love is really strong, it will endure absence. I can't honestly look in the mirror and say that the first relationship would have endured a separation by convention or actual physical....Not asking for sympathy or understanding but trying to contribute.

 

[Kurosaki]

I wouldn't change anything. I'm good with where I am in life, who my family and friends are, where I'm going, etc.

Going back in time and changing anything would change that.

No regertz

 

[Abacinator]

I'm sure all of us will look back and think, I should have done this or that. Personally I'm happy with how things have turned out and I wouldn't change it for anything.

 

[Kurosaki]

I'm sure all of us will look back and think, I should have done this or that. Personally I'm happy with how things have turned out and I wouldn't change it for anything.

 

[byke]

I wish I cared more about family stuff when I was younger. Spent too much time running around being selfish as a kid. Now those relatives are gone and I wish I could hang out with them.

 

[SuperMike]

I was just thinking today about some of the beautiful women in my past who threw themselves at me but for one reason or another I rejected their advances. :facepalm