If I could turn back time...

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  • mandy0688
    mandy0688 Posts: 335 Member
    I would not even pick up a cigarette. I also would pick up more fruits and veggies instead of chips and cookies. I would also keep working out after leaving my soccer team. I would not get married at 19 and i would have finished school. But i wouldn't trade my fiance or the lessons with that marriage for anything else in the world. Also I would spend more time with Corey before he died. Tell him how much he meant to me. I would also be closer to my dad when i was younger
  • foleyshirley
    foleyshirley Posts: 1,043 Member
    There are so many things I would change if I could, but ultimately if I changed anything I wouldn't have my kids. No change is worth that.

    :)
  • ajro0610
    ajro0610 Posts: 21 Member
    I would go back to December of 2007. I had struggled with obesity my whole life and in December of 2007, I had lost over 120 pounds and weighed a very healthy 142. I was so fit physically but mentally, I was not healthy or happy.

    I would tell myself to make some changes:
    1. Cut a few specific people out of my life who were holding me down.
    2. To understand that focusing on myself is not wrong or bad or selfish. It's necessary.
    3. To move on and stop holding onto the past.
    4. That I could do it myself, on my own, without my family and without a man.
    5. That I was about to lose the most important person in my life, that knew me better than anyone, and there was absolutely nothing I was going to be able to do about it.

    Unfortunately, or fortunately, some of these changes (see 1,3, & 4) are about to take place in the next few months. It's going to be a long, hard winter!

    Great post HisEminence :-D Glad to have you as a friend!
  • HisEminence
    HisEminence Posts: 55
    The pleasure, without a doubt, is all mine!!! I loved reading these posts!
  • Wrreck
    Wrreck Posts: 99 Member
    I would go back to see my 15 year old self and warn her to stay away from the 20 year old creep that she'd date and eventually marry then divorce. At least I did have enough common sense not to have kids with the a**hole!
  • slepygrl
    slepygrl Posts: 249 Member
    4/19/95 - I would have stayed with my best friend after I took him home from school. I would have told him I loved him. You see, he shot himself not long after I took him home. He had a horrible life. I think this had been a plan of his for a long time. I'm not mad at him for leaving me. The pain he was in must have felt unbearable. I just wish he could have seen that things really do get better.

    All these years later, I still miss him.
  • bankmd
    bankmd Posts: 20
    I did apply myself, and go to college and then law school. I stayed thin. One can do these things, but still have regrets. I would go back to high school and tell myself to love myself more, and to stand up for myself and not let people who who are negative diminish me. I would tell my high school self to worry more about making sure I surround myself with people who are caring and decent, and particularly not to let guys who would not really care distort my outlook.
  • enwando
    enwando Posts: 1
    I would go back 3 years from now and actually do freshman football so i could start out in shape to do my long time awaited goal
  • JayStu
    JayStu Posts: 332 Member
    I would go back to when I was 13 and tell myself that you have the possibility to become an alcoholic inside you, don't pick up that bottle
  • 12skipafew99100
    12skipafew99100 Posts: 1,669 Member
    I WOULD GO BACK TO 14 AND NOT DRINK THE PEPPERMINT SCHNAPPS MY FRIEND GOT FROM HIS BROTHER.
  • MemphisKitten
    MemphisKitten Posts: 878 Member
    If I could go back to Halloween of 2001, I would prevent my fiance's suicide. He shot himself in the head when I was in the shower, and that one event has f-ed up my life. Not only do I miss him and I have never found anyone who came close to worthy of taking his place, he would have done so much good on this earth if he had not made the decision to end his life. That is the one thing I would go back and change. RIP Alex Cantrell :sad:
  • kathim429
    kathim429 Posts: 379 Member
    The only thing I would do is hug my kids more.
  • 12skipafew99100
    12skipafew99100 Posts: 1,669 Member
    4/19/95 - I would have stayed with my best friend after I took him home from school. I would have told him I loved him. You see, he shot himself not long after I took him home. He had a horrible life. I think this had been a plan of his for a long time. I'm not mad at him for leaving me. The pain he was in must have felt unbearable. I just wish he could have seen that things really do get better.

    All these years later, I still miss him.
    I'm sorry........I know someone who hung himself. It leaves the ones behind feeling so helpless and sad.
  • FlyByJuly
    FlyByJuly Posts: 564 Member
    I would go back to around summer of 1984. I'd then know to stay away from the "friends" who offered me dope to help me thru the loneliness of my husband dying. I can't blame it all on them, of course. The next 3 years were bad, and I had a bad guy to go along with it. Three years of my life that I wish I could just have a do-over.
  • erinkeely4
    erinkeely4 Posts: 408 Member
    I'm really happy with the way my life has gone so far. I have made some minor mistakes, but nothing that I haven't learned great lessons from.

    I think I'd go back and keep up better with my friend who died. Then maybe I could have in some way influenced things so that her and her daughter weren't killed, though I don't know how I could have fixed that.
  • Jeremyjly
    Jeremyjly Posts: 30
    While going back in time sounds appealing, I'm not sure I would. Mistakes, regrets and bad decisions make us who we are. We can only try to learn from them, right?
  • anaboneana
    anaboneana Posts: 195 Member
    i wouldn't change anything.. but i'd like to tell my past self that she's a wonderful, beautiful person who shouldn't hurt herself trying please others
  • DonM46
    DonM46 Posts: 772 Member
    I've often wished to go back to the day I was born, yet keep the knowledge that I have now.
    Not necessarily to change anything, just to know the consequences of everything I did.
  • TorontoDiane
    TorontoDiane Posts: 1,413 Member
    1788 lol I would rock those corsetted gowns lol

    ok in reality 21... fresh start.. delete half of the nonsense I put myself thru lol

    make better decisions given the wisdom I have now and would love youth on my side once again and appreciate it this time
  • Sweetybug
    Sweetybug Posts: 6
    I would go back to when i started eating twice the meals portion. Then it wouldn't be so hard now and i wouldn't have to worry about my health. Do I have diabetes? Do I have low cholesterol? Do I have high blood sugar? Am I seriously sick and don't even know it?
  • lexlowe
    lexlowe Posts: 908 Member
    I'd go back to the mid 80's and move away from my 'Costanza'-like parent's the day I turned 18, travel around the world for a few years right after high school, and invest heavily in Microsoft stock.
  • seal57
    seal57 Posts: 1,259 Member
    I would go back to a week in August 2008 when I meet the most amazing guy....I would love to relive that week..... He past away May 2011 and I never got to see him again...:sad:
  • HisEminence
    HisEminence Posts: 55
    I am awed with what has been shared in this thread! I have read each and every comment on here, some several times, and have been humbled by all who took the time to share of themselves through the medium of words. Thank you for that. I wish you all the best of everything in your lives! Here we can support each other in matters of fitness and nutrition...and sometimes we can just support each other!
  • kilikinilei
    kilikinilei Posts: 12 Member
    All my mistakes have been lessons learned, so I wouldn't change a thing. So if I had a time machine I would use it to go back to see singers and bands that are no longer here perform live.

    Like : Billy Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald. Louie Armstrong, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Queen, ... and so many more.

    I think it would be awesome to see them perform live.
  • Laura_Ivy
    Laura_Ivy Posts: 555 Member
    I would have told myself to never snort that first line and that meth is the devil and tell my Dad I loved him more and visited him a lot. He passed away two yrs ago and I miss him so much...which is one of the main reasons I stay away from alcohol is because it killed him...he just couldn't give it up. :'(
  • Ldysw357
    Ldysw357 Posts: 118 Member
    Aside from wishing I was the athletic and sporty type, I really don't think I'd change anything. Sure, I wish I had gone to school after HS but had I not married when I did I might not have my kids now ( hysterectomy at 28 ). I am who I am because of the choices and life I've lived and I'm actually happy with that....except for being fat, but even then I'm still a pretty confident person.
  • MindyG150
    MindyG150 Posts: 1,296 Member
    There are so many things I would change if I could, but ultimately if I changed anything I wouldn't have my kids. No change is worth that.

    This for me too :) I have the best kids, love them both so much!
  • Celeigh12
    Celeigh12 Posts: 763 Member
    I'd go back to 12 and never gain the weight. And I'd do everything in my power to help my mom change her lifestyle so I wouldn't lose her so early.
  • Tennessee2019
    Tennessee2019 Posts: 676 Member
    I would go back to the age of 14 and never have picked up a cigarette! Not that I would ever want to re-live all of those youthful years but I truely wish I had never started smoking to be as cool as my best friend that was 3 years older than me.....bad choice looking back at it for sure!

    I started at 18, because my boyfriend smoked. That was the 2nd biggest mistake of my life (the biggest mistake was my first marriage) & I have tried to quit so many times without success. I can't do Chantix due to my head injury, I don't believe in being hypnotized & the patches don't work for me either. I'm just going to have to get up the courage to quit cold turkey & hopefully not kill anyone around me (due to nicotine withdrawl) when I do.
  • KenDubya74
    KenDubya74 Posts: 196 Member
    I would go back to age 23 and totally skip meeting my first wife and erase 5 years of hell. You live, you learn.

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