If you change only one point in your life?

Question

what would you change and why? How do you think your life would be different if you'd made a different choice?

Answer 1

I think personally life is made up or a series of roads, we walk down them, we meet people, sometimes we meet special people that help change or shape us, they open up new doors, other times we meet dead ends, and simply have to turn around and go back the way we came. Everything is based upon choices and ever choice we make opens up a new set of possibilities, some good some bad. If there was one thing I could change Mmmm, probably my confidence is where I lack, and I probably would have gone a lot further with my life, had I been brave enough / confident enough at times to go for things or do things straight out.

Answer 2

I would have left college and travelled the world - the reason I would change this is because I have always regretted not taking a position with a sales company to go travel and see this big beautiful world, although I am happy with my college course I am still working for a PhD in social culture I think that a large chunk of my life has been in a book or staring at a computer screen.

Answer 3

I wouldn't change a thing, no matter how minor.
It's not that I have always been happy with the choices I have made, because, believe me there are somethings that I wished I had handled differently in the past. But, it is because after 25 years I have finally come to terms with myself and have learned to accepted me for me. And if I go back and change even the most minor thing in my past, I won't be me anymore. At least not the me that I have grown to accept. For the first time, in a long time I am at peace with myself and I am comfortable in my own skin. I could not take away the peace of mind that I have attained in the present for a fleeting moment of peace in the past.

Answer 4

I should have had a different attitude. You can change your attitude but not others. So this will make you adjust in any circumstance.
What you do depends on your attitude and your perception of things. If I had a positive attitude, I would have taken a different course in studies, would not have been angry with myself and others, would not have made decisions basing on anger , lot more things. My life could have been far better. Attitude makes you a better person.

Answer 5

There are no gaps in the construct of the universe, and if there are spaces between things then there is opposing energy of things present in place, causing all things to stay distinctively within their own regions of separations. Just the way air and water cannot harbour vacuum in their contentment, life too loath vacuum or chaos in its folds. The formation of life is such that there is nothing isolated, or a thing aloof and detached for the rest, or in your words an isolated ‘point, the changing of which would cause all other things to shift and come together again with a new binding order in place.

There is however one thing that we can change that could change everything thenceforth, and that is the way we look at things in our life, the concept of our destiny I opposition to our free will to choose and do things. Do you believe in destiny, do you think that things happen because they are preordained to happen, and does not matter what we do they will eventually happen? If this is your opinion then there is not point considering some point that could have been placed differently to make all the different differences in the course of things to come.

The fact I know is that all things in our life: our thoughts, emotions, feelings, deeds, beliefs and our entire knowledge are interconnected. They surround our being like the light of a candle surrounds its flame; all things in our life are there for just one reason, or a unifying principle of our existence, and that is our being, the full sense of it. The proper sense of this principle of being is in our acceptance of life in its entirety. By believing in destiny we tend to throw away the responsibility that we have and need to realise for the present moment. For this is the point in our life where we could a difference, just this one and nowhere else. We can use our will to change thing here and now. There is no point tin the past, or I the future to change, for all things exist as us in the present moment of our life.

We might have wider choices available in the beginning about a certain specific matter in life but then it all starts to narrow down to few until we have to make a single choice; and this choice thus is the ultimate consequence of many made earlier. Sometime it seems as if things happen isolated in life, and only if that would not have happened this would not have come into being for us, but this is just a thinking, and the fact is we forget to keep tracks of our own actions and sometimes we are not aware that we are and in the end allowing us to choose only form the set of things that we have made most probable for us.

All actions in our life are built up like a pyramid, as it is impossible to remove removing a block that is set near the bottom or in the middle of a physical construction unless we learn to cause a lift and uphold things, which in the world of time is impossibility.

Then everything we do, we do in the service of our own essential being, and every choice we make or each decision we take is connect to all other choices and decisions that are in the past of our life, this because our inner self has been the same all along. What we will do in the next moment is greatly influenced by what we did in all the moments that are in the past now. In this sense our destiny is not in the future, but stored in our past exerting it control upon our life now. And if we would not have an active will to choose differently, or to change thing in the present moment, we would keep doing just one thing over and over again ever since our beginning, and thus for the rest of our lives. But we do change things, and the point for this change is only in the moment present, in its acceptance and in the sense of responsibility for all things we.

Answer 6

It would be when I first started full time employment at the age of 16. I would have found myself a decent career to settle in to, instead of floating around different jobs, as I did. That way I would probably be in a much better situation than I am today.

Answer 7

I would have pushed myself harder when i was doing my Alevels and also in my last yr at uni. I still got good results and a good degree but i know i could have done better and that plays with me sometimes.

I also agree with the person who said they'd change the 1st person they slept with! I never would have slept with the person i did had i been put in that situation again! He was a complete sod and a minger, but its amazing what some men can say and charm you to get into your knickers!

Answer 8

You ask the impossible. One small change, however minute, has enormous ramifacations when taken over a person's lifetime. One slight deflection can cause tremendous change in both a person and those around them. Remember the Frank Capra movie "It's a Wonderful Life" with James Stewart?

Answer 9

hi,
I would not have been in a pedestrian walkway on one day in my life, which changed my life so much, I am still struggling to reform it to something manageable and likeable to my child.
If i'd gone a different way, I would have got a great promotion, my child would've grown up much easier, and I think we would be where we are now approaching anyway because we wanted our lives together so much.

Answer 10

I would not change anything. I don't believe in looking back . We make choices some good some bad. Most importantly you learn from them. It's what makes you the person you are today. I have no regrets!!