ImNotMyIllness
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If You Could Start Your Life Over-Reset
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Hellhound
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I'd go back to 2008, when all of the things I was forced to bottle up for so long finally came to light. I'd have tried to manage my feelings differently. I'd have gotten help earlier.
I wouldn't have gotten back to my childhood because I had absolutely no control over my life. It wouldn't have made any difference.
I wouldn't have gotten back to my childhood because I had absolutely no control over my life. It wouldn't have made any difference.
Not a thing. I do wish I could have been born without illness, but my illnesses has lead me to a career where I help out people similar. My past is my past and I felt that it was truly out of my control because it's life and things are bound to happen, I just have to try take my experience and turn it into a more positive thing.
ImNotMyIllness
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I have a looong list of things I would do differently! When I have more time to organize my thoughts, I'll post them.
....if only.....if only
....if only.....if only
I would go back to age 18 and be true to myself. I wouldn't try to deceive myself into thinking that I love being around people. And I should have told my parents that I was never meant for the medical field. I wish I had sharpened up my IT skills and joined this forum.
ImNotMyIllness
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Is it too late to start? Is your life salvageable? I'm sure it is. What if you started right now?
BlueDays
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No, I have been trying to get into a mental place where I would be able to "salvage" it for over 20 years now. I would need a complete reset for it to be done.
My first thought is that I would want to go back to being a child.
But the fact that I would know everything now.....It wouldn't be the same.
The world wouldn't seem as magical as it did back then.
I wouldn't be as happy.
I would just be a meloncholy toddler.lol
No,
If I had a choice....I would go back to being about 14-15.
I feel like that's about where everything started to go south for me..
I wouldn't allow myself to be bullied in school.
I wouldn't drop out.
I would learn to drive and get my licence at the age most people do.
I would take more risks.
I would actually be a teenager....and do whatever it is that teenagers do.
Which I didn't the first go around.
But the fact that I would know everything now.....It wouldn't be the same.
The world wouldn't seem as magical as it did back then.
I wouldn't be as happy.
I would just be a meloncholy toddler.lol
No,
If I had a choice....I would go back to being about 14-15.
I feel like that's about where everything started to go south for me..
I wouldn't allow myself to be bullied in school.
I wouldn't drop out.
I would learn to drive and get my licence at the age most people do.
I would take more risks.
I would actually be a teenager....and do whatever it is that teenagers do.
Which I didn't the first go around.
BlueDays
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Welcome to the forum! Actually, a person is created as soon as a sperm fertilizes an egg. You would not exist as a sperm cell because you are the product of a sperm and egg.
vj288
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This is a really loaded question I feel like. Going back in time would mean losing the good things in my life now, presuming I did things differently, and considering that I wouldn't press the button at all as I am happy with where I have come and where I am hopefully going.
If I you were to have asked me this question as recently as a year ago I would have told you I'd have wanted to go back to when I was 11 or so. In fact, I would say it was something I dreamed for and wanted more than anything in the world to be able to do. Mistakes I thought I had made is what I blamed for all my problems, and were problems within themselves, so I would want to go back and stop myself from making them ever.
Now, knowing all I know and going back now, if given the chance I may consider and try to use to my advantage. I may fear it would backfire on me, but basically I would be all knowing of the future and control it in anyway I wanted to. The ethical complications of this would make me nervous, as basically I would be manipulating all the people around me and making what I wanted to happen to happen. I may overlook this if I considered myself a moral enough person who would not hurt others in my new formed path.
Having the intelligence of a 21 year old as a 12 year old would also make me wise beyond my years, and a appearing to be somewhat of a genius. I would be able to get into a prestigious school, probably on scholarship. I would be able to know how to work my body to be good at sports, and then excel at that as well. And socially speaking, I may be able to live the "childhood I never had" as I was too focused on the mistakes I made to do anything about it.
But that would all change who I am, and there's not anything wrong with me when it comes down to it. I know this is just a silly hypothetical question but I have moments where the past saddens me, the things I missed out on and the things I could have done differently. The fact that I can't redo things, or change things about the past. But the present is all that really matters, and I said before there is good in it. That means that the past, as imperfect as it was, must have done something right.
If I you were to have asked me this question as recently as a year ago I would have told you I'd have wanted to go back to when I was 11 or so. In fact, I would say it was something I dreamed for and wanted more than anything in the world to be able to do. Mistakes I thought I had made is what I blamed for all my problems, and were problems within themselves, so I would want to go back and stop myself from making them ever.
Now, knowing all I know and going back now, if given the chance I may consider and try to use to my advantage. I may fear it would backfire on me, but basically I would be all knowing of the future and control it in anyway I wanted to. The ethical complications of this would make me nervous, as basically I would be manipulating all the people around me and making what I wanted to happen to happen. I may overlook this if I considered myself a moral enough person who would not hurt others in my new formed path.
Having the intelligence of a 21 year old as a 12 year old would also make me wise beyond my years, and a appearing to be somewhat of a genius. I would be able to get into a prestigious school, probably on scholarship. I would be able to know how to work my body to be good at sports, and then excel at that as well. And socially speaking, I may be able to live the "childhood I never had" as I was too focused on the mistakes I made to do anything about it.
But that would all change who I am, and there's not anything wrong with me when it comes down to it. I know this is just a silly hypothetical question but I have moments where the past saddens me, the things I missed out on and the things I could have done differently. The fact that I can't redo things, or change things about the past. But the present is all that really matters, and I said before there is good in it. That means that the past, as imperfect as it was, must have done something right.
regularman
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I'd like to be 11 again before i moved to another school. I had friends in my old school and i lose it when moved. In new school people liked me but i didn't have any bond with them. They were just schoolmates, nothing more.
Esperance
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I don't really think I would do the things differently because well, it's could be better for me that it really is right now but at least, I am really me. If I change something in my past, it would be like being somebody totally different and I don't really think that's what I want. Start a new life on a new place, maybe but not change all my life