Which stage of your life would you want to re-live again???
By bodhisatya
@bodhisatya (2384)
India
February 5, 2010 11:28pm CST
Hi,
Would you like to tell us; as if given an oppurtunity which stage of your life would you like to re-live again?
Some of us have had beautiful childhoods. Where we were fiercely protected by our parents and loved ones. No worries and everything was just so fine and smooth.
Then some of us had some real terrible childhood experiences so probably we won't love to re-live those moments again.
What about your teens? Your youth or the time when you gained real maturity and the world seemed so clear to you.
What are those moments you would like to relive again?
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11 responses
@GADHISUNU (2162)
• India
6 Feb 10
I like to relive my childhood, not because I felt protected. I had my own unhappiness- that comes due to limited means. I had several bright ideas to try out but there wasn't enough money to experiment. But the times were something I woul call more humane. Today's mechanical world is very tiring and unimpressive. I do not want to relive my teens, for that was the time I felt very low- going through several stages of self anlysis, destroying the images built and rebuilt. The saddest and troubled moments. This I think would be the case with almost anyone. I have only heard my wife say that her teens were also good. I would like to re-live those few months after I found love and both of had declared our loves. It was an unsuccessful thing but the moments were beautiful. If you ask if I would like to fall in love once again should I have another life( I am a full practicing Hindu who totally believes in several lifetimes.)I would not want to fall in love and go through those agonizing moments. You might see a contradiction. I can explain.;
One time I do not want to get back into is the newly married days. There couldn't have been greater misunderstanding than those days. If there was any hell, well, this was it. Now, I am more settled. The turbulent newly married days being over somehow, there is more peace.In my opinion this is just due to the Infinite Grace of God. As of now, I would however like God to bless me with good health in my middle and old age for I have a lot to achieve and accomplish, that somehow I feel God has opened His benevolent eyes, to let me see something I like. I only want to work at my success [B]my way[/B] and today, for that, I need the health and vigor of my youth. I want to accomplish as much as I can and would want to leave no residue, for more than anything alse I wouldn't want to be born again at all!
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@bodhisatya (2384)
• India
6 Feb 10
Wow, mesmerizing words, but they don't portray the entire picture.
I can bet with my soul that there are many a things you wanted to say right now, but you restrained yourself.
You have said this thing so beautifully that you want to do and accomplish everything in this very life itself and be free or what we Hindus call "Moksha".
The minutest thing which I could do for you right now is to mark your response as BR.
Thanks and I sincerely hope that we can have many long conversation from now on!
Bodhi
@GADHISUNU (2162)
• India
7 Feb 10
Yes Bodhi! You [B]have[/B] got a lot out of my rather short response. Generally, my responses are long winding, if not for anything else, to make it "count" in myLot. I am just joking. Yeah, you rightly read between the lines, I have a lot to say and I hope someday I would "grow" enough to write an autobiography that would help, if no on else, those wanting to be on a spiritual journey. For that I must first qualify, in several ways.
Thank you again Bodhi for marking my response as BR. I too look forward to having very long and detailed interactions with you. Lemme, also make a guess- the way you have "coined" your screen name I see a lot of thought has gone into it! You have switched a part of the name,felicitously.
You have said,[I][B]right now the least I could do is give a BR[/B][/I], why, just be around and exchange views, isn't it a great thing to do on the path: [B]satsa~Ngatve nissa~NgatiH[/B]...
@bodhisatya (2384)
• India
7 Feb 10
Hi,
Sorry I didn't get the last part, would you be kind enough to explain it to me please.
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
6 Feb 10
I coud not bear to relive my childhood or teens again. I quite like the moment now as I am comfortable with myself in any situation. I have beautiful loving children and grands and I am in reasonably good health. Now is good. I would pray to stay for another maybe 10 years as I am today. Energetic and have come to terms with my faults and have tried to improve plus my spirituality is high and increases daily. I am blessed! Thak you for giving me a BR.
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@bodhisatya (2384)
• India
6 Feb 10
Hi,
It is really so good to know that you enjoy your life. You really are blessed! And why only 10 years? You must go on for a long time to come, as I really am in dearth need of good friends.
Bodhi
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
6 Feb 10
i think i would relive my teen years.. i was going to be disowned and blamed for stuff anyways i might as well had raised hell and done some of it lol.. i was a good kid that with a few lies got branded bad and it really hurt me and i tried to hard to prove myself good and it didnt work so i think i would have more fun and not have worried about trying to prove my innocence.. even me being careless wouldnt end me up in trouble like a lot of people since im a careful person anyways.. i would have just not worried as much about what other people thought
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@bodhisatya (2384)
• India
6 Feb 10
Hi,
So what are the pranks you were involved in, huh?
Just kidding. You must have learnt a lot from your teens till now. Eventually we do realize that we don't need to make everybody feel good. We can do just what we ought to do.
Thanks
Bodhi
@frtwome (239)
• United States
6 Feb 10
I actually had to think about this question a little bit. But I think the best time in my life for me was in my 30's. My husband and I owned our business that was doing quite well. We were young with lots of energy, goals and dreams. The cool think when you are young is that you belive that all you dreams will come true. And I suppose that most of ours did. I feel very fortunate that one of my dreams is that my husband and myself would always be together, and we are. A little less energy and goals nowadays, but fortunate for the memories.
@bodhisatya (2384)
• India
6 Feb 10
I bet there still is time for the dreams to pursue. And they will if you keep dreaming. If you give up dreaming then there is nothing.. a void.Wish you and your husband all the good luck to make the dreams come true for both of you!
Bodhi
@msfrancisco9369 (10002)
• Boston, Massachusetts
6 Feb 10
Hi Bodhisatya,
I want to re-live again the time when i met my husband. i always wat to refresh that early stage of courtship and when i accepted his proposal for me to be his girlfriend. the engagement was great and the wedding day was really excellent. then when i got pregnant it was such an amazing experience until i gave birth to our first child.
i still want to live the way i live myt entire life. i can't imagine changing everything that i've gone through.
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@bodhisatya (2384)
• India
6 Feb 10
Hey my blessed friend,
I am afraid I won't find that many people who would say that. You must be a very happy and contempt person. I really feel so good for you.
it really is an amazing experience when one falls in love and it takes a lot of blessings when you are married to the person whom you are in love with.
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@msfrancisco9369 (10002)
• Boston, Massachusetts
7 Feb 10
i thank the almighty for this wonderful chapter in my life...falling inlove and be loved in return. i am so blessed that i want to share how it feels to be one. thanks for the chance friend for me to share my experience and happiness here.
@junrapmian (2169)
• Philippines
7 Feb 10
My early adulthood stage, I'd like to relive the time when I just graduated from college. That was the time when I should have enjoyed first my singlehood before getting married. I got married at age 23, just a year after I graduated from college, I could have save first and help my parents settled financially. What happened was I plunged into the married life because I got pregnant, so young, I don't even have a savings, I wasn't ready for the responsibilities that comes with it,and my parents were mostly affected. However, I did not regret having my husband as a lifetime partner, he really worked hard to give me a better future with my children.
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@bodhisatya (2384)
• India
7 Feb 10
Hello friend,
You have recounted so many incidents in such a little paragraph. Thank you so much for sharing. I wish all the very best to you and have a very happy and wonderful life ahead!
@irishmist (3814)
• United States
6 Feb 10
I would like to have back the moments I had with my husband before he passed away.
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@bodhisatya (2384)
• India
6 Feb 10
Hello,
Thats a short response but it speaks volumes I guess. I am sorry to know that he has passed away.
Thanks,
Bodhi
@maezee (41988)
• United States
6 Feb 10
I would say my high school years. I would focus more, work on getting more scholarships to avoid being in the position I am today - which is not being able to afford to go to college! Not that I regret any mistakes that I've made in my past - but I'd like to.. see what it would be like to be like everyone else my age and actually stay in college for more than a year.
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@bodhisatya (2384)
• India
6 Feb 10
Is it really too late to try back going to college. Pardon me if I sound intruding.
Bodhi
@bingchen (1119)
• China
6 Feb 10
i want to re-live during the youth.i find that i dont have chance to do what i want and share this good time during the youth.i only stay small city to work,i want to live in big city and work and want to look for my value of life.so i dont have this chance to make attempt to do this and regret in my life.especially when i request this thing for my husband and go to far place to live.he alwayse talk to me,you have older and dont do anything and make me angry at him.if i have chance i think that i make correct choice for my future.
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@bodhisatya (2384)
• India
6 Feb 10
You must have had a great time when you were young right? I pray that the things you want may come true.
Bodhi
@AjaySinghBaghel (5506)
• India
6 Feb 10
For me definitely it would be childhood days. Now a days we have to go to job and do work to get paid but in childhood days specially in school days no worries as to how we will earn money. slowly slowly when we started knowing things like job, responsibilities, family, society, nation, world and many more things.
And yes - once we are grown up , need to take care of our self and others around us but in childhood days its our parents who protect us from everything which comes on our way. You feel secure because of parents and being loved unconditionally by our parents.
Would that we get a chance to live those days again :)
@bodhisatya (2384)
• India
6 Feb 10
Hi,
for most of the people it is the childhood memories that we relish the most, isn't it? Ye schildhood is indeed the most blissful period of our life. Good to know that you had a wonderful childhood and would like to relive the moments.
thanks,
Bodhi
@brynnesmom (169)
• Canada
6 Feb 10
That's a tough question to answer! I definetly wouldn't want to re-live my teens...hormones, confusion, and pimples! My young years were wonderful, as were my twenties but I think I was happiest around age 30. I was mature enough to know what I wanted to all that crazy stuff with relationships went away. Now I'm in my 40's, married with a daughter and I'm very content as well.
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@bodhisatya (2384)
• India
6 Feb 10
Hi,
So you were more happy in your thirties or now, I didn't get it?
Have a great weekend, friend.