If you had the chance to live your life all over again, what would you change?

Very little. I’ve had a very… interesting life, to put it mildly. I suppose I would be kinder and more considerate. I would have put up with fewer idiots. But other than that, I wouldn’t change much of anything, not even my first marriage since we got five wonderful children out of that. : )

In my teens and early 20s, I would try to more conscious and appreciative of my health, energy, and the life around me. When I was in my teens and early 20s, I didn’t really appreciate my youth. It went by so quickly. Now that I’m older, I am only beginning to see and feel “real life” and the joys it can bring.

I would have quit most of my jobs much sooner than I did. Some of them I was so overdue to quit I ended up letting myself get fired, heh. Staying at a job you hate isn’t worth it. Life is too short.

@CaptainHarley FIVE? You were a busy man…lol

I would be less afraid to ask women to do things with me.

LMAO @FutureMemory !

My first wife had three from a previous marriage, and we had two more. I have always tried very hard to not make any differentiation between them. Now I have 12 grandchildren! OMG! LOL!

@FutureMemory Been there. I know what you mean. Good answer.

Up until the day my last child was born… absolutely nothing.
After that? Almost everything.

Nothing. I know I’ve made mistakes and I’m not proud of where I am now but I know… I don’t know what I know. I don’t want to go back. How are we supposed to know what has shaped us? We think we might do differently but if you’re that same person then maybe you’d still make the same mistakes because we wouldn’t know what we know now. And most of the things we wish we could change are beyond our control anyway. We can’t prevent something that’s supposed to happen, so why try? What’s meant to be will be. That doesn’t mean we are helpless or we can’t change anything. We have control over what we do now.

My body hair.

I wouldn’t have gotten my Great Dane, because no matter how much I love him, I wasn’t properly equipped to deal with him and I think someone else may have had a better home for him. I would have become more involved in my life. I would have been a better daughter to my mother when I was young.

I would have worked harder to live with my ex-husband longer to try to keep the marriage together.

I have thought about this a lot.

I would do more to tell people how much they matter to me in the moment, and not just assume they somehow know.

I’d start growing out my hair as soon as possible, and not start smoking and drinking. I think…XD

I would not have grown my hair out and started smoking and drinking. haha!

It’s never too late to start on the last two. Go for it! And sever your hair off.

*Didn’t let my hair grown out when I was younger. Started smoking and drinking when I was younger. ;)

The main thing I would change is that I would’ve come out as homosexual earlier than I did. I waited until after high school and a big part of me wishes I had done it earlier.

Aside from my sex, faith, and logic, about 93% of it would have been changed.

Depends upon how far back this Q covers.

I would choose a better set of parents to be born to :)

I would have ignored my parents’ advice and gone to art school at 18.

I would have spent more time studying in college the first time I went. I really could have done better.

I would have gotten over my ex-husband after we broke up the first time. We had co-habitated, broke up and eventually got back together and got married.

Bite that fucker’s dick off.

@Hypocrisy_Central I’m curious: if your logic remains the same, do you think any of your life would be able to change?

My underwear in the seventies. I mean come on, Batman Y fronts? Purleeeeze!!!

@DominicX Did fear and a concern for not being accepted play a significant role in not coming out sooner?

@King_Pariah Omg….not nice. ;)

@MRSHINYSHOES I should have, he was a pedophile and I was 6

@MRSHINYSHOES

Absolutely. But once I did come out and realized that basically everyone I knew was accepting, I felt like I could have and should have done it earlier.

I’d call the FBI on September 10, 2001.

@mattbrowne you’d probably be in jail right now

@harple If I went back without the foreknowledge I have now, I would have used the same logic and thus not know what would have worked until they didn’t work, at what time I would be in the exact position. The only way anyone can say they would do something different is to know what they know now, when going back threw it. If you knew that taking that engineering scholarship would lead to a crappy, high pressure job, and following your dream to be a stage actor would have netted you your perfect mate, you would have still gone to college because at that time it was the most logical decision.

The expression of logic…like poetry in motion.

@Hypocrisy_Central My point exactly! Thank you

I would have majored in psychology in college.