Do you ever wish you could go back in life?

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

When I was just a nipper, I got selected to go on tour with a West End musical, "Smike", conducted by Simon May, the man behind the music for Eastenders, The Last of the Summer Wine, The Summer Of My Life and so on. I LOVED it. Ferreting around back stage, performing on stage, just living the life! Of course, I don't have the chance of this anymore but for a heady few months, life was SWEET.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smike

 

[tvguy]

Wish I could have spend more time with my dad before he passed. I was only 9 and I knew he was sick, but not aware he was terminally ill.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Wish I could have spend more time with my dad before he passed. I was only 9 and I knew he was sick, but not aware he was terminally ill.

That's so sad I'm so sorry

 

[tvguy]

That's so sad I'm so sorry

Thanks. Just part of who I am. And I'm not sure the questions I would have for now, as a 66 year old, would be the questions I would have asked as a 9 year old. He lost both his parents when he was 10, so I have broken that trend as my kids are in their 30s.

 

[NannyBeBe]

Yes. There are things I would love to have done differently.

 

[fly girl]

I watched Back to the Future, I don’t want to disrupt the course of my future by altering it going back. (I’m pretty content with my life.)

However, I would love to go back twice — once in the late 80’s, and again in the early 90’s to relive that part of my life. I had a good time!

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Definitely. I would redo my high school years minus one particular person.

 

[fla4fun]

I would go back to before I lost my parents so I could talk to them again. Life has been just so so since then, so I have a 50-50 shot of improving it as well.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Hm. If I could stay me and see myself in my younger days without ripping apart the fabric of the universe, I'd go back to my seventeenth birthday and tell that scared young girl (me) to just give college in NYC a chance, so she wouldn't regret having never tried. I wound up with a good career that I loved, but if I had followed my dream of being a bridal and formal dress designer who knows what life I could be living now?

I'd also like to go back and tell her I forgive her for being too scared to go off on her own to a strange city with no family there to turn to. It took me a long time to get to forgiveness, and I'd want her to know.

 

[macraven]

i was removed from my family when i was 4 as my parental units , did not want me

had a loving two single lady’s take me in to raise me until i was 6 -7 yo years old
this couple were the best parents to me for many years until i was returned to my birth mom

I think of them often
wish they were still on my life

 

[Genie+]

I’d love to revisit the 2nd decade of my life. 10 to 20 was quite an interesting joy ride.

Lost my father early as well. Had the fortune to spend one last summer with him when I was 12 knowing it was likely the last. There was a lot of love and care between us but not much in words. I think we just both enjoyed the normalness of life together, while it lasted.

 

[Mysterian]

I watched Back to the Future, I don’t want to disrupt the course of my future by altering it going back. (I’m pretty content with my life.)

However, I would love to go back twice — once in the late 80’s, and again in the early 90’s to relive that part of my life. I had a good time!

Getting older, I started to look at Back to the Future in a new way. It’s a fun reminder to look at ourselves and the way our own choices have developed to where we are today, and to consider how our own current, incremental decisions and behaviors may eventually bring dramatic consequences ahead. We really didn’t think this way as kids, and to be fair, maybe many adults still don’t.

Just a little thinker post for y’all, to earn my DIS Philosophy badge.

 

[leebee]

I'd go back to when I was about 25 and do it all again- differently this time. I have had a lovely life but have realized things in the past few years that have made me think about how much of my life hasn't been my choice- or at least, not my first choice of how things should be, where we should live, etc. It's hard to explain, because while I don't regret anything, I sure do wish some things had been very different.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Sure, there are times I would like to relive. I would like to spend more time with people who are no longer around, that is probably the #1 thing.

I definitely had a lot of fun "back in the day", but I don't know if I would want to teleport back in time to do it all again if it involved having to go through the dark times too.

 

[footballmouse]

All the time

 

[TippyThomas]

There's many, many things I'd do differently if given the chance. I would actually say the words instead of just feeling the feelings. I wish I would have talked to people more about those feelings. I still struggle with effective communication today, but I'm trying to improve.

 

[j's m]

I wish I had listened to my parents and my brain and never married my first husband.

 

[GAN]

Frankly, while I have regrets I wouldn't change a thing. I never think like that. Life shouldn't be a bunch of what if's, but only full of little things that can be. I'll be 60 in a two months(Lord willing) and I'm truly blessed -not with things or money but with the people around me. Old friends since I was in kindergarten that know me, and new friends that help me learn more about myself than I would have imagined. I wish everyone could be as lucky....

 

[DCLMP]

Of course, who doesn't want to be younger?

 

[sam_gordon]

There are things I'd like to do differently (sp?)and there are things I'd like to re-experience.

BUT, all my experiences have made me who I am today and where I am today. I wouldn't want to change that.