If I had the chance to go back

@EavesJ (95)
United States
December 6, 2011 7:28pm CST
If I had the chance to go back and change things in my life, I'm not sure I could. But don't you ever wonder what life could be like today if you had? I do know that if the things that happened to me didn't happen, then I wouldn't have the things I have now. But there is always those thoughts in the back of my mind, they tend to eat away at me sometimes.
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@megamatt (14292)
• United States
8 Dec 11
There will be many things that I might want to change in theory. However, there are going to be a lot of reasons why I would not. If we had the ability to change all of those bad decisions that we made(and for some that there are many), then how much would we really learn? The real answer is absolutely nothing at all. We would learn not a thing for sure. Life might be different but would I have grown into the person? Likely if I had erased those mistakes, I would not have learned. I would not really grown into who I am today. In fact, if you erase one mistake, it could be replaced by three more. Perhaps three more mistakes that are far worse. All because we have never rather properly learned that lesson.
@chrisding (141)
• China
8 Dec 11
Have a nice day.Sometimes i wonder my life but now it isn't the truth i want to get.But i think it is necessary for me to live.
7 Dec 11
Regrets are pointless. At least until we invent time travel. Experience is the thing to aim for - learning from past mistakes instead of moping about them. Like "The Fool" in the Tarot, carry your experiences with you but put them in your backpack, so they don't get in your way and you're not constantly looking at them.
@airasheila (5454)
• Philippines
7 Dec 11
Good day EavesJ, Honestly, your main topic that indicates this phrase "If I had the chance to go back" is my usual tag line. As I always say this since May of this year. That, if I had the chance to go back, I will do it now. Thus, I want to be back to my previous work, far from my family, far from home. The reason, when I came back here and decided for a career redirection, my family whom I loved most and expect to be at my side especially now that I am adjusting have turned their backs on me. My brother as well as my mother does not appreciates my presence. Instead, they keep on pushing me away. As my mom, always ask me when will I leave again to look for another desk job work. Wherein, before, my mom always asked, when will I go back home. Same thing with my brother, before he always tells me, we will gonna put up our own business. And now that I am here for the business and here as my mom told me to come back, yet they are pushing me away and leave. Thus, if I only have the powers to turn back the time, I will do it exactly right now. As my eyes are so tired of releasing amount of tears every night due to the pain that I really feel inside my heart. I am really praying hard, that God will gonna bring me out from here and lead me to another place to live. And this is also the reason why I do not want to celebrate the coming holidays with my family. Since they do not really appreciates my presence here.
@ramonah (211)
• Romania
7 Dec 11
I've noticed so far in my life that every time I lost something I won something right after it, or when I won something, there had to be a loss to balance things out. So even if I had a chance to go back I don't think I would, other than just to see how things would change. You can't go back to make things better, you could only go back to change something, it would still balance out in the end, so don't bother thinking about it. :)
@Kocetog (14)
• Bulgaria
7 Dec 11
This is complicated, because if you change one thing, another consequences could happen.After all, we do what we do, we pay for our mistakes, or we get rewarded for what we have done.Life would have been very different, if we had this opportunity.
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
7 Dec 11
I was just thinking the other day about the three places I have lived since I left my parents home, I was thinking I wonder how things would have turned out if I had have stayed in that flat or the other place I lived how different my life could have been, something we will never know, I guess we just have to think we made the right cjoices in our lives to get us where we are today.
@mensab (4200)
• Philippines
7 Dec 11
i think it is regrettable that you do sometimes wonder what could have been your life had it been this and that. i think it is unproductive to continue to think like that. especially if it makes you frustrated and disappointed. the negative energies generated by this regret are overwhelming at times that one tends to overthink and dwell on the what could have beens. break free from that. power to that one.
@dodo19 (47317)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
7 Dec 11
If I had the chance to go back in time, there are some things that I might do differently, but for the most part, I don't know if I would change a whole lot. I think that it would depend on what I feel that I need to change and such, but there's still a lot that I just wouldn't change, things that I just wouldn't want to change.
@jricky1 (6800)
• China
7 Dec 11
I always think of this way,if i had the chance and i will definitely grasp it and feel so grateful for that.I will go back to my primary school and middle school,it's so free of us and innocent.That's really memorable time for me and i think for everyone.lol,hopefully this will come true.
7 Dec 11
why feel uncomfortable for these things? something you can change ,,some you can't why not pay more attention on what you can change and have in the future