If you can go back in time to change the outcome of your life, would you?

Question

and which year in you life would you change and why?

Answer 1

i was very shy and socially out of it from 14-24. i'd like to have another crack at those years.. seems i totally missed out on so many important things and important stages in life.. no relationships, no circle of friends, no wild and crazy parties or experiences.. some things in life you can never really make up. better late than never doesn't always apply. you only have one chance to be a teenager, and i totally missed out on those years..

Answer 2

I feel that life has shaped me into the person I am, for every bad experience I go through, i gain something I could never have otherwise gained.

On the other hand, especially in my vulnerable early teens, I was pretty down at a time when I should have been having the best time of my life. 2 failed suicide attempts (thank god they failed) and I'm a changed person.

It's easy to say `no, I've learned a lot`, but on the other hand, we all have regrets. Perhaps i'd go back to conception and mutilate my genome some to completely alter the outcome of my life. Perhaps I'd have sought help from friends when I needed it most.

In short, yes, I'd go back, but perhaps I'd miss out on some of the important things that have happened in this life.

Answer 3

I don't know if I would, because I sort of believe that things happen for a reason, and we learn from all our experiences, and that even if you did change what seemed to be one defining moment, the outcome might somehow remain the same.

But, for what it's worth, if I could change one thing, I'd go back to an evening in August 2000, and I'd take the car keys out of one person's hand, and put them in someone else's.
Why? Because then the car might not crash and someone might not be dead.

But like I said, I don't think it works that way. I've dealt with it (mostly), and I don't know that changing things would make me necessarily better or happier.

Answer 4

It all comes down to regrets; everybody has them and we would all like to do something about them and alter the path of our present lives. This is a fact. For me, I wish I had down a better job in high school, which would have led to a better education at a better university, which would have led to better career opportunities, which would have led to greater success sand a better personal life... well you get the picture.

I would change it because I would like to see the best person that I could possibly be. Since I blew it, this will not ever be realized.

Answer 5

yes the year would be 1966. I would tell my parents that I am a female traped in a 14 year old young mans body. I would then start working towards getting a full sex change and be the female On the out side that I know I an on the inside.

Answer 6

I have wondered about this but have concluded that no matter where I started some loss or pain might come of it. Perhaps I may not meet my beloved Gwen. I might have become involved with that hateful church. My brother might be killed on active service. NO. I can say I am capable of love and forgiveness. I would not, above all, risk changing that.
Kind regards,
Rose P.

Answer 7

Yes I would. I would go back to August 1985 and have a deeper converstation with my fathers son so there would be no misundertanding a month later when I find out I am pregnant...the I actually would have told him immediately and we could have been together. Now he has passed and just visits me in dreams.

Answer 8

The only thing i would change is coming out earlier in my life, i would have done it in 1976 when i was 21 years old.

Answer 9

I would like to think i wouldn't. But, If i could i would change my outlook on life when i was a teenager. If I would have only known then what I know now kinda thing!

Answer 10

I would have remained single and never remarried the 2nd time. Having step children and rude in-laws is a biotch!! I would like to go back to when I was 17 again and never been married at all.