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"What If?"

Imagine you could start your life again, at a pivotal point in your life. Would you choose the same path? Where would you start and what would you do differently?

I thought about this myself and there are things I'd probably be tempted to change, things that made my life miserable at the time, but then I thought more and realised that these things, however bad, helped shape me into the person I am today. Sometimes a really bad incident or time in your life can produce positive results. However, sometimes you just wonder what it would be like to take a different course. Would a previous love have worked out if you had made different decisions? Would that fight you walked away from be any different if you had faced up to it? Would you have even survived this long?

Questions, many that cannot be answered, but it's a great way to make yourself realise that you are more than the sum of your experiences.

But still I wonder…What if?

I'd never have killed that kid.

REGRET NOTHING! your choices, good or bad, are what made you who you are today!

bad choices can be character building, and make you stronger in the long run (unless your bad choice results in death! :D )

To be honest, if i could start life agin i would:

Try harder in school then what i have done/do.

Not be such a moody git as i am.

Get out more and have more excorsise.

I would just generally like to be a more fitter intellegent person.

I would change most of my decisions at "pivotal" moments in my life. Up until now a mixture of self-doubt and subtle self-destruction have [as far as I perceive it] seriously messed me up.

To say I'm plagued with regret would almost be an understatement. Nothing too serious, but big enough to make think "what if". So yeah, I'd like to turn back the hands of time and do things differently. No doubt about it.

I've often wondered if my life would be better or worse if one part of my life was different. Obviously, we can't go back and change it but the thoughts still remain.

A few things that I would like to see changed:

Stepping out of back gate a minute later when I was 6 and not getting hit by a cyclist riding on the path and cracking my head open.

Not riding my bike so fast when I was 13 and my brakes locking making me fly over the handlebars, fracturing my wrist for which I needed surgery to repair.

Not having to have a canine tooth removed 2 weeks before my German speaking exam and seeing something before the operation which still haunts me to this day.

Being able to tell the woman I love that I wanted to be with her before she moved to Ireland.

They may not seem like much, but they mean a bit to me.

pb wrote:
> Alternatively, it could just mean your toothbrush lasted a day
> longer...

It very well could.

Alternatively, it could just mean your toothbrush lasted a day longer...

pb wrote:
> Belldandy wrote:
> changing the simplest of things can have great effect,
>
> This is always a 'given' in any discussion on time travel, but how do
> we know? Who has tried it out? It's just a useful tool someone
> invented to make time travel stories more interesting.

It does make sense though that changing some relatively simple things would have a great effect, brushing your teeth where you hadn't before would mean everything else you do that days would happen say 5 minutes later than previously, which in turn could end up putting you in the wrong place at the wrong time, which could cost you your life.

Worst case scenario, but it is a possibility.

Belldandy wrote:
> changing the simplest of things can have great effect,

This is always a 'given' in any discussion on time travel, but how do we know? Who has tried it out? It's just a useful tool someone invented to make time travel stories more interesting.

I wonder too. In fact I wonder about her every day at least once. Whether or not we would still be together is irrelevant, I could have done something but didn't. And to a degree I still kick myself. Although I know it was the right thing to do.