Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets, then can come the best of benedictions: "If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.
-Joan McIntosh
Namaste
Peace and Love
2007-07-10 01:38:34 · 20 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I get the feeling I HAVE done it all over... and over... and over...
...I am just happy that I am finally getting it right THIS time. =D
2007-07-10 04:12:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is a hard one to answer. While there are certain things that I wish I had done, or had happened differently, I also feel that had those things not taken place I would not have the life I do now. I am trying to learn to live without regret, a very challenging quest!
Had I not lived my life the way I have I wouldn't have my husband or my baby boy. I feel that these two reasons alone are worth any suffering and pain I have experienced. So, my answer is no.;)
GREAT QUESTION!
2007-07-10 08:58:14 · answer #2 · answered by PaganPixiePrincessVT 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends, if I could go back knowing everything I know now, I would probably do things differently because I'd know what the consequences would be and it would be boring to know everything that was going to happen. But generally I am pleased with my life so far, it's had horrible and awful bits, but amazing bits too, and I feel like I'm always learning and becoming a better person, and you can only do that by being yourself and living life just the way you live it. To be able to go back and do things differently would change the person you are, and I am happy to say I wouldn't want to do that. :)
2007-07-10 08:51:26 · answer #3 · answered by Katrina W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Not because I haven't enjoyed major parts of it, but what would be the sense of doing it exactly the same? I'd want to actually do the things I questioned and didn't move into.
I would have added even more to me.
Now, I do. So, you would find a whole lot less missed opportunities around for me to swing back and catch the second time around. But I wasted a portion of this lifetime and I'm not going to hide that.
Truly, it's wonderful to love what you have built. But I would certainly make additions. Funny thing, about this though and I'm just remembering it now.
Sometimes the door doesn't close on your lifetime and you do get the chance to restructure it. You just have to see into it.
2007-07-10 10:32:20 · answer #4 · answered by shakalahar 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to say no. Not because I made so many horrid mistakes or because my life sucks.
But just for pure, unadulterated fun and adventure!
I mean, if you had to live your life over, why would you WANT to do everything the same? Yawn!
I know there's that trap where if you change one thing, it has a domino effect which changes other things. But so what, I say. Take a chance!
2007-07-10 18:03:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would do it all over again the same. And make the same regrets for a couple of choices made - seeing as those choices ended up being the right ones even with all the pain associated with those choices.
2007-07-10 08:45:12 · answer #6 · answered by capitalctu 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I would. I have been through some tough times and have made my share of mistakes but those are the experiences that help you to grow and become the person you are. I would rather have made those mistakes then to constantly wonder if I should have done things different.
I live my life by a very similar quote. :)
2007-07-10 10:11:00 · answer #7 · answered by Vintage Glamour 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a loaded question! If I had it to do over, I would live my life differently. But that would mean I wouldn't marry the person I married (and divorced), and I wouldn't have the children I have now. Based on my children, whom I love so dearly, I don't think I'd want to live life over again.
2007-07-10 08:47:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would change just one day. Just one act of not opening a door would have made a huge difference in the quality of my life.
2007-07-10 08:47:03 · answer #9 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think about all the women I could have slept with if I wasn't so shy. I'd change that. Some of them were practically throwing themselves at me.
2007-07-10 08:41:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
if i went back with the knowledge i have now? no, i'd try different paths and different options.
if it was a total rewind... who knows what choices i would have made, one butterfly in china could have changed me with a flap of its wing.
2007-07-10 08:44:42 · answer #11 · answered by joe the man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋