For me, I think I would have waited a couple more years before having my first child. Not that I wasn't a good mother, but I still had a lot of growing up to do myself. I was much more focused and had my priorities straight when my second son was born.
So...what would YOUR "do over" be?
2007-10-25 17:32:33 · 22 answers · asked by night-owl gracie 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
I was happy with the timing of my children. I wanted to have them before I was 30, and I just made it. My do over would be, to be quite honest (and expecting thumbs down), that I had found my relationship with God about 5 years earlier than I did. Or earlier even. And found a way to actually do Architecture which is what I wanted.
2007-10-25 19:24:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
If, I knew then what I know now?
Probably a total do over. But, we never know the outcome. I think sometimes how I would have done things different, but, had I done those things, would I be a better person today? I think the mistakes helped me understand people more and have more respect for them. Had I gone back and made my life perfect, knowing the mistakes not to make. I may have turned into a self-centered, dog hating, egotistic crap f*ck. So, I look back now and think what things could have, should have been and glad I became a person who cares and helps people when I can.
I still wish I had bought 100 shares of Yahoo when they first went public. But, I learned enough from that to buy Google when it went public. :-p
2007-10-26 00:54:47 · answer #2 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Although I lean towards melissa's answer, I think I WOULD have thought 3/4 times before agreeing to leave the home my parents had 'lent' us [full ownership pending repayment of down payment] and moving back to the city...at that time I was into 'wither thou goest...' Then we divorced a few years later!That home would have been fully paid for eons ago [recently sold for $750,000 - bought originally for $37K]...Now that I am a senior, permanent affordable housing is a real concern of mine.
What's the old saying? Wisdom is wasted on the young ?
2007-10-26 09:00:58 · answer #3 · answered by sage seeker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't do over any of it. I would go back and relive the good and hilarious moments in my life. From kid sayings, to getting one over on a nasty co-worker, to racing cars, the smell of a tiny baby wrapped in my arms in a rocking chair, taking first place at a horse show and second place in the same class. Riding horses with my good friends. Endurance rides. Camping and fishing with the kids.
Laughing till I peed my pants. Lots of the fun days gone by. No changes at all. ;0)
2007-10-26 08:17:40 · answer #4 · answered by lilabner 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well Gracie as much as we look alike, we think alike.......I would of waited a bit to have my first child as well........I was 19.....I did the best I could and I think I was a good mother....but I still had A LOT of growing up to do as well......sometimes I felt as if my first born and I were doing some growing up together........
I waited 6 year to have my second and then 7 years after that to have my final one......so they are spread out.......
2007-10-26 13:35:13 · answer #5 · answered by Melissa R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never would have left New York and finished school there instead of going to Florida. Heck....I could have a been a Dr. and doing well by now. But that's just assuming it would have turned out the way I wanted. The "other" option doesn't always mean it would have been a better one.
2007-10-26 11:34:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are things I wish I'd done differently, but I'm afraid if I did a 'do over' it might change things that I wouldn't want changed. So I'll take my life as I have lived it and the things it has taught me and do the best I can with each day now.
2007-10-26 01:03:18 · answer #7 · answered by luvspbr2 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I would have waited a little longer to get married. We struggled the first 5 years because of lack of a decent job but pulled thru.
2007-10-27 06:47:30 · answer #8 · answered by Eminence Vox 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would have applied myself wholly to high school scholastics, investigated and applied for scholarships, thoroughly educated myself in a good college, chosen a career with a self-sustaining income, then have looked parenthetically at possible life partners, rather than have fallen in love in high school and abdicated self-sufficiency.
2007-10-27 10:52:17 · answer #9 · answered by Dinah 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I too was married young and had 2 children when I was 20. Unfortunately, I had uterine cancer at 24 and was unable to have any more children. So I am happy I didn't wait to have my children, but I probably would have been better at it if i had been older.
2007-10-26 02:39:48 · answer #10 · answered by slk29406 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋