If you had a time machine and could go back to one moment in your life and change something, what moment would you choose?

Back in time so I could get the Old Timer award.

To this question
or
This one

I would go back 12 minutes from now, and not ask this question since there’s apparently no use in asking a question that has been asked before >:(

@chelseababyy Don’t get yourself down about asking a question. You were curious and that is no crime.

I would take it to LA in the 1940’s and find a very drunk Bukowski.

Or I’d take it to April 5th(?) 1994 in Seattle and try to stop Kurt from offing himself.

I’d go back to the day I asked my husband for a divorce, and try to work it out. And this question is worded a little differently.

Honestly I would go back to when I was in college and take linear algebra. It’s my one regret in life.

@timtrueman If that’s your one regret, you haven’t lived enough.

I doubt that. I just wouldn’t change anything bad that’s happened to me. I wouldn’t be where I am today without it.

@timtrueman Lurve for “I wouldn’t be where I am today without it.”
I couldn’t agree more.

@timtrueman Accepting the bad =/= rejecting regrets.

@timtrueman, can’t you take it now? Some mistakes can’t be rectified, but this seems like an easy one to fix.

I go back to my birth and strangle on my umbilical cord.

I would have followed my dream and drive to be a dancer. It was almost handed to me on a plate but I stupidly chose love….. and first love at that! – which didnt last and he went on to achieve his dreams and I have had to rearrange myself into new dreams :( It is a deep regret that even my body aches for with regret of not letting it dance. Arrrr well.

Go back to the last time I saw my daughter, take her and run.

Whoa Jack79 I just read your go back in time wish it is sad. Not sure what eles to say about it other then when I read it my guts churned with the sad :(

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I can’t know what will change if I change one little detail

@ratboy Why so miserable? And funny!

my sister died suddenly in 03 at the age of 26 i would go back and tried to get to know her better when she died i hadn’t spoken to her in 2 years.

I would go back to November 2005 and break up with my then-boyfriend. Then he wouldn’t have moved to be near me, and I might not have hurt him so badly.

(lickin’ my lip like Cher) If I could turn back time…

I’d go back to the moment that a girl from work convinced me to go on a date with a guy she knew. If I would have turned it down I could have saved myself a few months of falling head over heels in love only to get abused and nearly killed.

@ItalianPrincess1217 – Dang, girl! Do expound.

@Jack79 I’m sorry, honey. I wish you could, too.

I’d go back to the time before my mom died. SO many things I’d do differently. Hindsight is 20/20. Too little, too late. :-(

@stratman37 Want the whole ridiculous story? PM me and I’ll explain…

When my dad left, I would ignore my mother, and tell my grandparents about it right away, instead of letting them find out by accident three year’s later. Perhaps they would have insisted that we move back, and I would have grown up with a support system around me. They lived 1,200 miles away from us, and didn’t come to visit much. They found out by running into my dad’s sister at a shopping mall, and she thought they knew.

Very shallow, but I would go back to senior year of high school and NOT turn Josh down for prom:( Then we’d start dating and live happily ever after.

I’d also go back in time a month and get a professional haircut, not ask my friend to do it in my kitchen:) Still waiting for it to grow out.

@sliceswiththings hahah i have a bad haircut right now too. and i paid for it! growl.

i dont think i would change anything. because sometimes i think about the tiny tiny tiny little things that have happened in my life that ultimately led to huge changes down the road, mostly for the better. but if i could change one thing i guess it would be to try harder in school. i didn’t think it mattered that much so i slacked off and now that i’m going to actually apply to a big school and not a community college i start to worry….

@chelseababyy
I’d go back and wipe out the following four families:
Warburg’s
Rothschild’s
Morgan’s
& Rockerfella’s

Oh an George Dubya…..Just for the hell of it!....

@Pazza I love you for that answer. For various reasons.

The moment my brother died.

When my daughter went thru an attempted rape (she was 12 years old), I was rational and controlled.
I would love to go back to that moment, and put the boy’s head thru a brick wall. The pain and suffering as a result of the attack ruined my daughters next 11 to 15 years. We had to deal with gangs, drugs, and her low self esteeme.
Maybe if I had done that, she would have felt safer, and not made so many bad choices.

@timtrueman Thanks for pretty much answering this question for me too.

I would go back to the time I got married. I would run like my ass was on fire and the nearest water was two miles away.

@timtrueman Hey, I’ll trade you. I’ll go back to college and NOT take Linear Algebra (and Matrix Math, while I’m at it). I thought I understood a little about math until I got to those. I dropped Matrix Math in time, but Linear Algebra resulted in my only academic F. (Calculus and Statistics should have clued me in to the fact that I didn’t know as much as I thought I did… and that I understood damn near nothing.)

But that wouldn’t be my moment, anyway. I hardly care about that. I think I would have talked a little more seriously to a girl I met in Florida a long time ago… or traveled to Guyana to meet the woman I met just three years ago, before either of us married “someone else”.

I have no regrets, though. The kids that I do have are wonderful. If I could go back “knowing what I would be changing”, then I wouldn’t do it.

I’d go back to high school and do better and get into a decent college.Plus I’d of asked Tamara Shaw to the prom. I know she would have said yes and I was too afraid to ask :(

I’d go back pretty much 3yrs to today & explain to myself that my girlfriend isn’t actually about to dump me…. which would prevent everything that happened from there on.

I’d go back to the day of my car accident, and instead of seeing the car coming behind us (while we were stopped for traffic, btw) and warning my fiancee, I’d try to pull out of the way so it didn’t hit us and ruin my life like it did. I’m disabled now.