If I could turn back time...

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

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!

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!

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.

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

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:

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.