If you could go back and be any age you want for a month, what would you choose?

Philippines
June 8, 2012 10:35pm CST
hello mylotters! this was questioned to me when we were having an impromptu speaking in english. My answer that time was... i wanted to go back at the age of 6 years old because when you're still a child everything is like heaven to you. All things you can do is to play, play and play. Also, you can sleep all you want and you have no problems. how about you??.. :)
12 responses
• United States
10 Jun 12
hi effinmuffin...this is a very interesting question...i definitely would return to the age of eighteen because that is when the psychoartist was introduced to her soulmate, but alas, we were both in other relationships and did not unite even though we both knew it was the right thing to do...but we had a happy ending, we reunited and married twenty-five years later! but if i could go back in time to the age of 18, i would not have been shy and missed out on the opportunity of a lifetime...i would have been a shameless brazen hussy and would have been happy all that time rather than without the love of my life!
• United States
10 Jun 12
"shameless brazen hussy" -- Oh my!!
@megamatt (14291)
• United States
10 Jun 12
Ten years old would rather be the age that I would want to be after some thought about it. There was just something about that period, where I was mature enough to actually be able to do some new things but I did not have an extra load of responsibilities pile on me. In other words, I considered ten, maybe eleven, to be a bridge year. A year where we tend to get a taste of two different worlds, appreciating the things from when we were younger, while getting a taste of the things that the older things are just going to enjoy. There are just going to be many times where I can still just be childish and insane, but also be more sophisticated. At least that is how I remember my life as a ten year old. A fun time right there in life.
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
9 Jun 12
i think i am fine the age i am actually. i would have liked to have kids earlier though because all the drama with my 19 year old would be over!
• Valdosta, Georgia
9 Jun 12
If I had the chance to go back I would go back to 17 years old. My childhood was Hell for me, no where near what I imagine Heaven to be. I absolutely HATED my life as a child! It definitely was not all play and fun. I would go back to 17 so I could have went to college this time and had a career to have a better life now. I would have made very different decisions and my kids would have a better life too now.
@nikki3 (172)
• United States
10 Jun 12
I would have to say 16. I had my son at that age not that I regret having him I just wish that I would have waited and had him at a different age.
9 Jun 12
I would like to go back to the year when I was 20 where I knew my first love. There I would like to remind myself not to love him because loving him will hurt me 'til the end. I would like to erase him in my past. So in this present time no hurt feelings I will feel deep within me. Yes I said I let him go, yet we can't also deny to the fact that the feeling will always engrave in my heart. I'm trying to forget him, yet for sure it will take a very long time to make it.
@cloud31 (5809)
9 Jun 12
I would go back at the of 17 when I left my hometown to study oversea.I would make a decision to stay with my family and rather stay to my hometown to pursue my studies.Then I could spend more time to my parents and be able to let them feel how I cared about them.Because when I left Its almost 10 years before I can make my way back to my hometown then it was the time had my father passed away after spent few times holiday with him.And that was hurt when you are about to give your whole time with them and he leave me behind. I truly regret those days when I'm not with him its the most painful part being a person when the one you most love leaved without me by his side.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
9 Jun 12
well it's clear to me you never had my childhood or the one of many other children.. you really believe that at the age of 6 years old everything is like heaven?? Als at that age I was already going to school, which is normal over here, since 3 years. So there was no all you can do is play and play and sleep or sleep. I can assure you there were a lot of problems. Kids have problems as well. Many kids have a hard life and try to survive. One month any age? I think it's useless and there are also no better times I would like to go back to. I would not choose anything.
@jadoixa (1166)
• Philippines
9 Jun 12
i would go back to the age of 7 because this was the time that a lot of bad things happened to me and i would do my best to correct anything that was done wrong and bad to me which is not right in order that everything in my childhood would be happy and normal as it was and not all negativity and sad as an effect of what happen to me starting at that time and age of my life.
@ARIES1973 (11426)
• Legaspi, Philippines
9 Jun 12
I would like to go back at my age of 16. Perhaps I could change some decisions that I've made during those time. After graduating in high school, I decided not to continue my college education outright. Instead I went to the city to find a job. I should have been graduated earlier if I had just decided to stay.
@riempie9 (1021)
• South Africa
9 Jun 12
If I could go back for a month and do it all over again, I would choose to be 38. I would be more sure of who I am, I would have learned some hard lessons already as far as relationships,and I would be young enough to start a whole new life. I would not easily fall prey to a man. I am not interested in money; it always comes to me and I don't go after it. At 38 I would have a fine physique and be wise beyond my years.
@SaifuMak (61)
• India
9 Jun 12
I would go back to the age of 16. It was the time of my +2 (higer secondary) classes. I had a lot of friends there. They made me learn the meaning of friendship. I really enjoyed those days. Really loves to get it back again. At least for once :)