Reversing One Decision

[Limper]

If you had the chace to reverse one decision you made in life what would it be and what result are you shooting for?

[Bagpuss]

The problem I have with this is that I'm happy with the life I have now, so while I have made some mistakes in my life (wasting time studying a degree I didn't like in the end, and thus scraping a pass), if I didn't make them I doubt I would be married with the family I have now. So since virtually any chance would put what I have now in jeopardy I think I'll stick with my past cock-ups.

[Black Angel]

This might come off as a bit arrogant, but I can't really think of a decision that I'd want to reverse. Occasionally bad shit has come of decisions I have made, but I think that I needed to learn from my mistakes, and if I hadn't had those experiences that I wouldn't be the person I am today. And my life is pretty good currently (touch wood!). I am healthy, happy, financially comfortable, employed, with a good husband and family... There's not a lot more I could ask for really... :D

Goddammit too slow!

[Limper]

I'd like to have chosen to go my own way and form the real estate business way back when in 93 rather than going with the flow and forming a computer business.

All the pieces of my current life were already on the table so it wouldn't have broken the happy pieces I have now but it would have saved me a lot of bull crap and I'd be much better off financially.

[Steampunk]

I would rethink my decision to not join the military right out of high school and then go to college after. Instead, I went to college immediately, and burnout took me down the road to dropping out. I think had I joined the military, then gone to college, I would have definitely done much better.

[Dawnstar]

This is hard because I would agree with several people's comments on if I would change something it could change what I have right now. And I am happy with the life I have now and all my decisions up until now have gotten me this life.

I think the only thing that I could have changed that probably would not have changed my life too much would be that I would have finished school. I would have stuck with working full time and going to school full time. But even this is something that I would be nervous about changing because it may seem like nothing would change but there is no way of knowing.

[Phantom Stranger]

I would have gone to the Hospital when Pops died.

[Kastil]

I should have finished college. I just didn't want to deal with it when I went and dropped out. Money played a small factor in it but not much. I'd still like to take a few courses just to brush up on some skills.

[Limper]

I would have gone to the Hospital when Pops died.

Ow.

[Enk]

I wouldn't have signed the adoption papers.

[Dr_Avalanche]

I would have selected a different university program, probably delaying it until I knew for sure what I wanted to do. As it is, I got nothing out of that time except loans.

[mollygrue]

easy--would never in a million years have married first husband. knew better at the time. love my daughter- but we married after her conception--never ever ever should have married him. evil abusive violent alcoholic sociopathic bastard: and those are his good qualities. felt pressured into legitimizing the child. (this was 25 years ago). never would do it now.

[Xavier Lang]

If you had the chace to reverse one decision you made in life what would it be and what result are you shooting for?

I would have been an exchange student in high school for an entire year instead of just a summer. That would have required picking a different country than Russia, as they didn't offer a 1 year exchange. I can't think of anything else I could change that wouldn't cost me too much good.

[Dinkeldog]

I would've taken the three days to heal from the pulled muscle at Officer Candidate School. Much better than the 9 months+ (hasn't fully and never will fully heal properly now) it took after it became a tear.

[Harry]

I would stay on track with a single curriculum in college, not flitting about willy-nilly between broad areas of study. And I would hold to my strengths, namely, history and English. The reason I did not do so when I was actually in school was that the only possible career choices I sensed coming were positions with the CIA or FBI. Little did I realise then that both would have been excellent careers for the person I turned out to be.

[doc]

If you had the chace to reverse one decision you made in life what would it be and what result are you shooting for?

Does it have to be one ? Hard to decide,
#1- would save someones life, but lose mine.
#2- Would not know something but still be hurt by it later.
#3 I would take another path and lose all that I now love even if that love is far away but loves me back.

[Janos]

Self-aborted?

I have a few what-if questions I ask myself, but no major regrets. I'm pretty happy with the way things turned out. I often wonder what life would be like if I had followed through with joining the Military, arrived a few minutes earlier to the house of a friend who committed suicide, or moved to New York with my high school sweetheart who begged me to go.

[Utrecht]

Hmmmm, there are a series of smaller decisions that i certianly would change

The only major thing I can think of is rather than going to the expensive private school where I had a 50% ride - i would have gone to the public university where I had the full ride.

Of course - it would likely be the case that my life would be fundamentally different - so in the end - why play with fire :)

[Thoth-Amon]

I would of went straight to University out of High School instead of taking a year off. After a year of working and partying I couldn't bring myself to go back to school.

[Tetsubo]

I wouldn't have married my first wife. A handfasting yes, legal marriage no... it would have made my life so much simpler and I might still have some of that money... I definitely traded up when I remarried...

[shabois]

I don't think there is anything major I would change because then my life would be totally different. I think it would be neat to be able to see what my life would have been like if I had made different decisions ala a Christmas Carol.

If I had to choose one thing... Telling the girl in high school my true feelings for her instead of letting her go.

[Prorpger]

I would have dropped out of High School after my Freshmen year, gotten my GED and gone to Tech school to get my BS in Network Engineering by the time I have 19 instead of 30.

I figured that I'd have a nice stacked resume, a good salary or I'd have my own consulting company instead of sitting in an entry level job looking at Limper all day.

[Limper]

blah, blah, blah, looking at Limper all day.

You're getting hard aren't you?

[Goblin Girl]

My first reaction was to say that I would not have married my first husband.

But if I had not, I would have taken the other job I was offered back in 1991, and then my whole life would have gone differently.

I wouldn't trade my dear Wil for anything, so I guess I have to say that I wouldn't risk changing any part of my past, no matter how small.

[shabois]

You're getting hard aren't you?
I'm getting a chub with all these people talking about getting hard.

[Phantom Stranger]

Ow.
It's my only one true regret.

[Brynja]

Considering leaving the US for Patrick. Seriously. I don't regret the relationship but the reality is I had (have) way more going on professionally than he does.

[Limper]

Considering leaving the US for Patrick. Seriously. I don't regret the relationship but the reality is I had (have) way more going on professionally than he does.

You could start waiting tables or even dancing on them and that would still be true.

[Brynja]

You could start waiting tables or even dancing on them and that would still be true.

:neenerneener: