If you could have one do-over???
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marymc says,
I have one, but I don't honestly know what I would have done differently, so maybe that doesn't count.Dragonflower says,
This one is easy.Wench says,
Tough call. Couldn't do it over without losing the two most important things in my life.Steve__Anthony says,
I would have learned electronics right out of high school when I had the brain cells and time.Mourningdove says,
I try not to have regret. I try to remember that all my mistakes and misteps make me the person I am. But I wonder...Believe says,
May 1995canadafreeze says,
A dangerous question ...Level1 says,
The things I would do over are not the things I should do over.Undermom says,
Changing the past changes the present. Not willing to go there.ba_miracle says,
too many needed and they would effect too many other people....really though, not becoming addicted to drugs and 1000 other mistakes.ErikaStellar says,
I said something horrible to my mother when I was a teenager. I would take back those seven words. I will never forgive myself for saying it, and it is the only thing in my life I regret.TheAngstyPoet says,
Lessons are not meant for do-overs.mzejay says,
Good or bad, everything that happened to me made me someone that I am proud of now.kathi_wright says,
i wish, in 1970, i had been strong enough to disregard my fathers hurtful words of 'you're a goddamn fool if you go to college. march on down to mcdonnell-douglas and join the typing pool.' at 60, i am still a secretary, with half of an education.illuminatrix says,
Not going right on to grad school after finishing my degree. Turns out a BA is essentially expensive toilet paper these days. That said, I will go back to school and now I'm capable of being an even better student than I was then.MsKillie says,
My first marriage was a joke, but it did get me out of debt and taught me a very valuable lesson about the kind of men I avoid. I suppose my only regret is not getting out sooner that I did.L2L3 says,
It would take so long to choose just one that my do-over would be the time I wasted trying to decide.ChewyD2 says,
Only one?lillybrook says,
I'm with marymc. The part of it I would do over would probably go the exact same way. I did what I could, honestly, and it still didn't end the way I hoped.ShellDeFelice says,
I would have run like hell when I had the chance.juice-thelife.blogspot.com says,
I would have never had unprotected sex... Not mature enough for the real thing lolJohnBigJohn says,
I would have not gone to college right away. Would have gone to Chicago and worked with Second City for a couple of years to see if there would have been a future in comedy. Spent too much time trying to please my parents....Redx3 says,
If I could, too many other things would change irrevocably.