I would have stayed in college the first time I went and gotten my degree instead of going back to it years later only to have the new math requirements kill any chance I had to do that...
I have to agree with the previous two posts about education. If I had completed my college education when I first started I could have finished and been teaching instead of losing track and not getting that degree.
I would not change one single day of my life. If I did, I wouldn't be the person I am today. I like who I am and where I am going and even the hell of where I came from.
I would have been a better teenager (I was not a good child then), and I would have had some single time before getting into a serious relationship - then marriage, just to have some me time, to travel.
I would follow my dreams , not those of my family. I had a dream and gave it up to be domestic as the women in my life had always been. I wanted more from life than to wash diapers and cook and clean..............................Norma
I would not change anything..........I agree with Wanda H, - I would not be the person I am today if I would have done anything differently! I like me and I love my life!!
Nevertheless - given the chance to relive my life, I'd probably change three things:
Say out loud that I want to and insist on going to College!
Resist my mother's dream of what I should become and study Architecture!
Have an Aunt or better yet Uncle in my life who would help me eradicate some of my naivite, before it affected my life and my lifes decisions so negatively - or better yet come back knowing what I know now:)
Number one and number two would change my life so drastically that it would be a whole new life and I'd never meet the people I met in this life.
I would like to say that I wouldn't of married my ex...but then I wouldn't be the person i am now, and I wouldn't have my children. I would of stayed in college and gotten the rest of my education.
It is amazing to me how many of you think along the same lines. (Me Too!) I hope that what we learned and lived will help us to have a better life if needed. Thank you for your honest answers.
I would not change a thing. I would not wish my past on my worst enemy, but I would also not be the woman I am today if I changed a day, or even a minute of it. I am happy to be who I am now.
I would have appreciated all the small things, the gems, the things that we aren't aware of as priceless at the time: conversations with my grandmothers, the aunt I should have known better, the corsage my father pinned on me before I graduated, my son as a toddler and all I can remember being was impatient, never losing the thrill of driving for the first time solo, the wow of landing the first good job. . . We can always get our educations but we can never take time back. Live and learn. Appreciate the small stuff first, not last.
I wouldn't change a thing- all of the mistakes have caused me to learn and grow. I decided early on that I never wanted to be an 80 yr old who said "I wish I would have...." So I have always jumped at the opportunities that have come my way and I love my life!
I would be more driven in my teen and early adult years, practicing the principles that hard work expands the number of opportunities one has. I would want this for the happiness that comes from exploration and adventure, not neccessarily for the material aspects.
I am amazed at how honest everyone is. I hope that some of us will think...well I can't change those things now, so I going to do -----while I still can. It's never too late!!!!!!!!
Are you ready, because there is alot.... and i'm going to do this tomorrow I'm posting this now so It will be at the top of my list of things that I just did to remind me. But tired now..must try to sleep,
I would do a few things differently but would generally live it the same way. The only thing I would do differently would be to never start using credit cards.
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The list goes on and on.... lol
Nevertheless - given the chance to relive my life, I'd probably change three things:
Say out loud that I want to and insist on going to College!
Resist my mother's dream of what I should become and study Architecture!
Have an Aunt or better yet Uncle in my life who would help me eradicate some of my naivite, before it affected my life and my lifes decisions so negatively - or better yet come back knowing what I know now:)
Number one and number two would change my life so drastically that it would be a whole new life and I'd never meet the people I met in this life.
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I was REALLY bored ;)
and i'm going to do this tomorrow
I'm posting this now so It will be at the top of my list of things that I just did to remind me. But tired now..must try to sleep,