If I could turn back time...

heatherloveslifting

Funny, I remember when I was a teen I used to write letters to my grown up self when I was upset. And I used to wish I could magically find a letter from my grown up self with answers. I do have answers for my younger self, now that it's too late...along with a bunch of new questions for the future me.

Pinkigloopyxie

I don't know if I would...

If I had to I'd go and be a sneaky yet not very outstanding child. I assume I'd have all my adult knowledge along with the baby's unfixed developing brain, so in effect I would actually become a super genius since it's like getting an xbox360 with 25 games right from the store.

Yeah I'd learn the violin and banjo. Mostly strive to just be able to provide for my fam, travel, and do art. I'd be a backpacking banjo player with a half a mil in just my bank by age 25.

Plus I'd have to stop my mom from dating all the retards she did. And the whole dying thing.

LivingJuicy

This is a great question, because sometimes I feel like I spend my life trying to forget the last five minutes . . .

I would go back to tell my 15 year old self that the guy she was about to fall in unrequited love with was not worth pining over the next 8 years.

I would go back to tell my 21 year old self to find a way to take the unpaid theater management internship.

I would go back to my 30 year old self and tell her NOT to go to law school and instead get her paralegal certificate. I'd be in less school debt and making more money if I had.

I would tell my 33 year old self to find an earlier flight so that I could have been with my father and hugged and kissed him one more time before he died.

I would tell my 38 year old self to work harder on her marriage so that she was 100% sure that ending it was the right thing to do.

I would go back five minutes and love myself more.

Masqueraded

I'd go back to when I was 22 or so. I would do two things:

1. Believe I was beautiful and not fat (I was 5'8/150 lbs) and embrace the beautiful body I had

2. Kick my ex in the junk who, at the time, was the one telling me to tone up and lose weight

Though it's not anyone's fault but my own, it was that age that the eating problems started and here I am now....

Midnight1210

I'd go back and smack some sense into myself before I married my ex-husband and tell myself to apply myself to my career more!

I hear you. Would absolutely do the same.

TheRoadDog

Even though there have been many twists and turns in my life, I wouldn't change a thing. I am very happy where I have landed.

mandy0688

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!

Same here I am on day three on trying to quit and its hard for me but I am proud to say i am making it.

yo_andi

"...if I could find a wayyy. I'd take back all the words that have hurt you, and you'd stay."

Oh wait, this wasn't karaoke hour?

I have no regrets.

diodelcibo

I would tell two people not to abandon their son in a foreign country.

harvo

I would not go back as I have lived a good life and I am made up of my highest highs and lowest lows. Been divorced once, lived with a couple women afterwards. Some relationships ended well, some not so well. As someone that almost died Christmas 2005 I have found a new contentment with my life and I appreciate my struggles more now than ever. May whatever God you pray to, or choose not to pray to, continue to love and protect you and your families.

mandy0688

I would go back to about 15 or 16 to not sneak my older sisters cigs. I would tell me its not worth it and you would save so much money just by not doing it and quitting is a challenge I am doing now.

I would go back to my 16 yr old self and tell her not to quit soccer. It would have kept me in shape all these yrs and I would probaly weigh alot less than I do now.

I would tell my 18 yr old self to not marry the first guy I "loved" he would cheat on me and take me for granted, But in a way that made me who I am today so I would prob not waste too much time on him.

I would tell myself to go find Christopher early. He is one true guy and I would fall madley in love with him.

I would tell my younger self to start watching what I ate and not finish a bag of chips or a box of cookies and to finish off the fruits and veggies instead because when your 24 you will face the challenge of trying to get that weight off.

I would go back to 1999 and tell my grandfather I loved him one more time and go back a few yrs ago and call my friend Corey so when he came back to town he would have been with me instead of someone running him over and taking his life. I miss him so much.

hbrittingham

I would go back 22 years and started couples counseling when my husband and I were first living together. I think we wasted a lot of years not being good to each other. I would still marry him all over again, but it would have been nice to skip some of the really hard parts, which could have happened had we known how to communicate with each other effectively.

crystalflame

August 2003. I'd make sure I avoided ever talking to the guy who took advantage of my friendship and my love, manipulated me, verbally abused me, and turned my friends on me. I hopefully would have avoided clinical depression, eating disorders, unhealthy relationships, staying in dying relationships because of not wanting to hurt someone like I'd been hurt, fear of not being loved or accepted... It's amazing how badly one person can screw you up if you let them.

sicoe17

Oh man, Cherapalooza just took place in my brain.

TheCaren

I would spend more time on the floor playing with my kids, and less time cleaning it.
I'd quit believing love conquers all a whole lot sooner.
I'd skip my Master's program and go to Law School instead.
I'd go to my mom's house and demand she see a doctor when I suspected she was ill (I didn't, so she didn't, and she died in 2008).
I'd delete toxic persons from my life a whole lot sooner.
I'd refuse to listen to the voice that told me for years that I wasn't good enough, that what others do to me is all my fault, and that it's my responsibility to make everything okay for everyone else.

InnerFatGirl

I would start my life again, I have made so many mistakes in my childhood and early teenagehood that make my life a lot harder than it should be now ..

oregonzoo

None. Good or bad it's all shaped me and who I am today.

And I am a good person today, with a good life.