Sometimes we make huge mistakes and end up regretting it for the rest of our lives, or at least for a very long time. How many people have ever humiliated themselves in front of a large crowd, bombed a major exam, missed out on an important event when they had the chance, rejected what could have been a fruitful friendship? (I'm sure I must have done all of those things at least once). If you had the chance to go back in time, but only ONCE and you can't come back to the present, would you risk it? Is there anything worth re-living your life for, an event that could have changed your life for the better, or do you believe that everything happens for a reason and we should be grateful? Feel free to share and get some things off your chest if anything.

I would go back to July 15th, back to the hospital and I would walk into my fathers room and tell him I love him and that I missed him and that I wasnt angry with him anymore. I think that could have maybe helped his passing easier to know his daughter didnt dislike him..and I would have hugged my grandfather afterwards and asked him to come to the funeral with me..

I wouldn't change a thing. Anyone ever read Sound of Thunder, or some such short story? Or watch Star Trek, or the Butterfly Effect, or any number of Sci-fi things? Man, I could really screw myself up.

That said, I don't think I really have anything that I need to change, most stuff has worked out decently so far. I mean, if I hadn't been kicked out of college for slacking off, I'd not be in a long term relationship with my girlfriend, most likely.

I would have spent more time on expressing my intrests in robotics so that I could have worked on making this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzfP0Ig7eVQ

Tricky question.

I do believe in the "everything happens for a reason," and I probably wouldn't want to go back and stay back, and erase all I've experienced even if I'd still remember to have learned from them.

However, if it were a go-back-to-the-past-and-then-return-to-the-present with that one thing changed (yes, I've seen Star Trek ... it works sometimes (things couldn't happen if they hadn't happened and wouldn't happen ... and stuff)! Which episode thing was it where they found Data's head (had Samuel Clemens in the storyline!)? That one worked.), I think the only reason I'd consider would be to go back to January 2000 (or early February) when I was a freshman in undergrad and use one of the phone cards I'd been sent in the mail to call home and talk to m'mom before her last collapse and death in mid February, instead of being so overwhelmed and caught up with college that I hadn't talked to her since leaving home at the end of winter break. As much as that would clear up the regret of not having done so, I'm not sure I'd want to fully relive my life from then (if it was a go-back-and-stay).

There's nothing I'd go back and change if I had to redo the rest of my life since then. What could seem like small changes could have had a big impact on me. The only thing I'd consider changing was my choice of college. Towson's too easy, so I don't really try at all, and living at home is boring as anything. In theory I could change that now, but its too much trouble.

I would have rescheduled my wisdom teeth removal so I could go visit someone last year. You know who you are. Incidently, I lied about the stopping thing. Because I'm an idiot.

Oh, and maybe tie myself down in bed the morning of the day I attacked the deputy principal. *cough* And while we're at it, give myself some winning lotto numbers. That'd be great.

*backs away slowly*



I would not spend the credits I bought in Achaea right before switching to Lusternia.

I'd go back to and invest all my stock in Phizer, heralding the arrival of Viagra secretly as I became extremely rich.

I'd go back in high school and would actually stand up to myself and beat the crap out of bullies instead of remaining quiet and accepting all the BS from them. No more self-esteem issues for me! I wouldn't mind redoing the rest of my life if that particular thing could be prevented.

I am in too good a moment right now to risk changing my past. Most of the ebst things in my life have come from very bad things happening before.

I don't think I'd change a thing.

An old story mentioned in "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman.

/wise man

I don't think I would go back to change anything because your experiences make you who you are, and I know all those times for not sticking up for myself has had some sort of impact on me... *thought*

Your experiences and mistakes make you who you are, if you don't make mistakes, big or little, you don't learn from them. Sometimes it takes a major big mistake for you to finally get it through your thick skull... if you're stubborn like me.

And, yea, mistakes do suck for a little while.. maybe even forever but, if it really has impacted you that much, you'll make sure to either do or not do whatever it was again.


... hope that makes sense

I'm a firm believer that if you were to go back and change a single thing it will always bite you in the a.

Like changing your electives at highschool, or a pivotal event. For example if i never moved in with my dad i wouldn't have spend two years travelling an hour to school *shudder*, I also would never have gone to Dulwich high been able to take retail cert 2 and it cert 2 when i went back to my old highschool, meaning no double up of free periods.

On the otherside had i not gone back to my old highschool I mightn't have had the great final year I did, nor the formal.

Also just think, there are millions of possibilities, though improbable you could uncreate lusternia

If I could go back.... I would never have left Madrid and I would have never told the US Embassy I was there in the first place. Lo siento Pepa, Te quiero.

Just one thing?

Honestly...

I would have never started to play Achaea, thus opening the door wide open to the magical land that is MUD Rping to a bookworm and RPer such as me...also getting me so distracted from my school.

Yeah, I considered if I changed that too. But I do think that I've gotten some good things from IRE games too. If I didn't start achaea, I might be -very- different.