If you could edit out any period in your life, which would you choose & why?

I would not choose to edit any of my life. My life now is the sum total of all of my experiences.

Even the bad parts were learning experiences.

@Marina Precisely what I believe.Which is why I stated so in my subtext.

Honestly. I think I’d call a mulligan. I could have done so much a lot better.

The streets, the parks, all empty and bare;
Where alone I stand and alone I stare.
I see shimmering drops of light reaching down towards young seeds;
It’s as clear as the glimmer of dew on the weeds.
I realize I only have a short time to do the things on my list;
As I look beyond the meadows of the early morning mist.
The heat of the daily sun cast shadows of glistening rays;
Then the twinkles and flashes all soon fade away.
The wind across my face comes creeping;
Awakening me as if I were sleeping.
Over the distance fields and through the damp grass;
The unforgotten memories began to pass.
A tear falls from my eye;
The sun has now arisen in the sky. Do you understand or will you ever understand the mind of the one who is too fully aware of the realities of life?

@germanmannn You really should have answered my question on poetry with that one. Excellent as it is.

Every moment of life leads to the next. Delete any one moment and you may not like the edited version. ;-)

I’d be tempted to edit out all the boring parts but not if doing so would lessen the excitement of the rest. Maybe I’d just hit fast forward instead.

Oooo… now that I think of it I could really do with out the month I spent in bed with the flu and pneumonia. When coughing up blood and fever dreams are the highlight of the time, it’s probably a time I could do with out!

Oh and yes, memories good and bad are most important, though it’s what we learn and take from them and our choices going forward that make us who we are.

@Austinlad Yeah some things are lost in the edit.

Did someone watch butter fly effect recently or something?

My first year of college.

@ucme: Which is why I stated so in my subtext.

“subtext” means something different than what you think. it means (to simplify) what you “read” when you “read between the lines”

@Ria777 Ok i’ll be sure to remember that nugget of info (to simplify) Gee thanks Einstein.

The years from 2005–2007 were not good for me. I had a lot of negative interpersonal experiences at that time, including a painful breakup and the loss of some fair weather friends on whom I’d relied quite heavily. Those experiences created a dramatic change in my personality. I went from fairly happy go lucky and outgoing to reclusive and self-deprecating. Why bother with relationships when people simply broke my trust? I would be tempted to edit out those years, but without the memory of them, I wouldn’t understand why I feel different today as compared to a few years ago.

I worked at a job relocation assignment for five years in Nashville. during that time, i was accused of spreading a rumor about a fellow employee. this was not true. the person that made the accusations finally admitted that i had absolutely nothing to do with the rumors. this person i disliked very much from that time on. i could have taken revenge on this person, but i decided that my best choice was to forgive him. this i did. i knew that sometime during his life, that he would pay for the remarks he made about me. and, i was correct. he was caught cheating on his income taxes and was terminated. then his wife filed for divorce and left him. this is a time period i wish i come erase from my memory, but my thoughts never go away. i am learning to deal with it and just knowing i came out of this situation as a better person and the final winner.

My ex boyfriend because he was a mean controlling manipulative piece of crap. He scared me and was very abusive