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Post by peasapie on Aug 17, 2015 23:24:08 GMT
If you had no choice, had to go back to a point in your life and start reliving it from there, and not changing anything (that's important), how far back would you go?
I was thinking about this today. I wouldn't go back more than 10 years.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2015 23:26:52 GMT
No changes -- all the same decisions and happenings? I'd take any point in my life.  some of it I would like to relive, and some of it I would like to see in person with my viewpoint today. |
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Post by mollycoddle on Aug 17, 2015 23:27:18 GMT
Age 30.
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Post by fuji on Aug 17, 2015 23:28:05 GMT
I would go back to my wedding. I loved that day so much!!!! Then I could relive the moments with my kids too. I wouldn't change any events, but I would change my attitude. I was way too stressed and uptight when my kids were little. I should have sat back and enjoyed living in the moment much more than I did.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2015 23:30:49 GMT
July 31st 2015. That is as far back as I would want to go and live through it all again with no changes. To be honest, it is as far back as I would want to go and make changes (If I could just figure out who shared this rassafrasin cold with me.)
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Post by originalvanillabean on Aug 17, 2015 23:44:04 GMT
I don't think I would want to go back. I'm pretty happy where I am and the good memories are still alive for me.
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Post by hop2 on Aug 17, 2015 23:45:15 GMT
If I could make a change I know exactly where Id go but that's not your question. I'd go back far enough to see my dad  |
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Post by MizIndependent on Aug 17, 2015 23:53:47 GMT
Even the smallest change could be a game changer. I'd go back to 11 and I'd make for damn certain I didn't repeat blue eyeshadow or parachute pants.
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Post by bc2ca on Aug 17, 2015 23:53:51 GMT
Interesting question! I would at least go back to the point my oldest was born (so 18 years ago). As I think about it a bit more, I'd happily go back to starting university and relive those days, along with travel and building a career in my 20s and early 30s (so back 35 years). The high schools years were ok, but I would probably want to make a few (minor) changes so I wouldn't go back that far.
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Post by freecharlie on Aug 18, 2015 0:00:34 GMT
Maybe one of the Stanley Cup games.
Am I living from then on, or just reliving a specific event?
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Post by jcm28 on Aug 18, 2015 0:02:23 GMT
What's the point of going back if you can't change anything? I wouldn't go back one second.
I'm editing my answer because I didn't read it right the first time. I would go back to 2014 and relive our Alaska vacation.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could change one thing? I would spend my brother's last days with him.
Janet
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Post by anxiousmom on Aug 18, 2015 0:06:29 GMT
Ha. I have enough mommy guilt that trying to decide exactly which moment that would have made the difference would drive me insane.  |
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Post by finaledition on Aug 18, 2015 0:06:37 GMT
I'd go back to the day my oldest son was born. He's 19 now. I've loved being a mom-even the challenges. It will be the period of my life that I look upon most fondly when I'm in an old folks home Luckily I still have a 7 year old whom I get to experience things with. ETA- I loved the movie About Time- they could change things, but the movie deals with this subject-very heartwarming. |
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Post by myboysnme on Aug 18, 2015 0:08:38 GMT
Ok so we can't change anything? Hmmm. Because I would go back to age 30 and change only my lifestyle food/exercise habits so that I wouldn't gain much weight and be healthier. 30 I was at my best me and I would like to relive that and also pay better attention to my best self and not let myself go like I did.
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Post by breetheflea on Aug 18, 2015 0:10:36 GMT
If I couldn't change anything I don't think I'd want to go back, but if I had to maybe 10 years ago.
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Post by valleyview on Aug 18, 2015 0:11:47 GMT
I am the sum of my experiences. No looking back.
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Post by lancermom on Aug 18, 2015 0:16:44 GMT
I would go back to the day I graduated from high school. I would go to college and take it serious. I would keep my husband and kids!
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Post by YooHoot on Aug 18, 2015 0:17:33 GMT
27. That way I'd still have my babies, but I'd change a few things from that point on.
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Aug 18, 2015 0:21:08 GMT
My past was really bad so idk what the point would be in going back if I can't change anything.
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Post by gryroagain on Aug 18, 2015 0:21:52 GMT
I'd be too afraid to go back very far, because I'm so happy now and what if I did something that screwed that up? Like took a right on that alley rather than left and got creamed by a car when my kids were little? It wouldn't be possible to do everything exactly the same, and little things have big consequences. If I HAD to, a day. And I'd do exactly what I did yesterday, which is nothing, lol.
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 18, 2015 0:25:14 GMT
So we're going back to re-live out lives from any point in time we choose, but we're not able to change anything? Then no thanks, I won't go back even 1 minute. I don't like this game!   |
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Post by polz on Aug 18, 2015 0:28:23 GMT
Oh heck no. I don't want to go thru some of the hell I've been thru again. NO THANK YOU! I'm really working on making the rest of my life the best of my life. It's hard.
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Post by kat on Aug 18, 2015 0:35:26 GMT
I woukd not go back if I couldn't change anything.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2015 0:37:42 GMT
I don't think I would want to go back. I'm pretty happy where I am and the good memories are still alive for me.  you couldn't pay me to relive my teens and 20's!! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2015 0:40:09 GMT
Just to the point where I conceived DS. I would carry DS and raise him without exDH I think. If I went back any further I wouldn't have DS and that's not something I would want to miss out on.
My past isn't horrific by any means. It is the time in my life that I started getting sick. Sure fixing that (how right?) would be nice, but if it meant not having baby boy, I wouldn't do it.
Neat question!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2015 0:42:26 GMT
If nothing could be changed/fixed, I would not want to go back..
waiting for the spin-off when someone says we CAN change something. haha
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Post by Basket1lady on Aug 18, 2015 0:44:22 GMT
I'd go back 12-15 years and try for a third (and fourth) baby. My biggest regret is that we never had more kids. But I was a fertility mama and we were already in debt from 2 1/2 years of fertility work, with high risk pregnancies on top of it. I don't know how it would have all turned out, but I wish we had tried.
ETA: oops. I missed the no changes part of this. I guess I'd go back to this morning. It was a nice lazy day. There's too many things that I don't want to relive. Once is enough!
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Post by mrsscrapdiva on Aug 18, 2015 0:54:01 GMT
I am 41 now and I would go back to 22. When people say leave the past behind etc, I don't really relate because my past experiences have made me who I am today. I like reminiscing.
My teens were good but I have a great time in my 20s - If I look back on them they were a lot of fun and carefree and the problems I had weren't major, even though I thought they were at the time, there are just a few things I would correct that would make my life "easier" today.
My 30s are a blur, well mostly 35 to 40. I did thoroughly enjoy my oldest son as a baby, toddler and preschooler. I feel sentimental because he is going into 5th grade and it seems like it happened in an instant.
This is why I have a love/hate relationship with social media, camera phones etc. I have limited photos and negatives from my past and I would love to share or see more photos my friends have, except all of theirs on somewhere packed away or they have the negatives etc. The kids/teens now have so many photos out there (well that could be a good or bad thing)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2015 0:56:32 GMT
I would go back 17 years.
ETA: Didn't read the OP very well. I wouldn't go back. If I couldn't change anything, it would be pointless.
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Post by lesley on Aug 18, 2015 0:57:18 GMT
If I couldn't change anything, I wouldn't go back either. It was bad enough living it first time around. Imagine repeating it, knowing what was to come, and not being able to change anything. That's a horrible thought!
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some of it I would like to relive, and some of it I would like to see in person with my viewpoint today. 
you couldn't pay me to relive my teens and 20's!! 
