What Would You Have Done Differently

[Bazile]

If you had your time again - What one thing / one choice would you have done / would you have made , differently in your life .

I know there might be more than one - but you have to choose ONLY ONE

[mallyh]

not to have argued with my dad ,it's too late now .

[Bazile]

What - when you were a teenager and the hormones were playing up?

[Peter Pedant]

well the difficulty is that now
you know that doing X leads to disaster, but ya didnt know that at the time

so it is hard to say a really catastrophic decision was wrong - because it looked OK at the time [ and was done in the best possible taste ]

For me - retire early I think, as I wasnt expecting to start a years chemotherapy three months after I retired..

There are quite a few things I would have done EARLIER
but delayed as I couldnt believe X had behaved like that

oddly enough I would have whistle-blown still at the times I did
as I had already weighed up the consequences of living with yourself and conscience if you fail to stand up and say: That is not true - X occurred.

[Peter Pedant]

// not to have argued with my dad//

o I did the arguing with my Dad bit,
and perhaps feel I could have done less

[janbee]

Not to take my parents for granted and to treasure every second with them

[espookid]

I think I would have studied harder and for longer

[Peter Pedant]

// I think I would have studied harder and for longer//

yeah espoo - I am very aware that I now have to pay for teaching I would have got for free if I had turned up whenI was younger

I say it alot to youngster who look at me as tho I were a Martian

[ummmm]

Trusted my gut instinct.

[dannyk13]

Would never have started smoking.

[RATTER15]

Very difficult!! I chose an extremely rocky path as a teenager but it meant I learned some very hard lessons!

If I had chosen a different path path I would not have learned the most valuable lessons I learned.

I think if I had to put my finger on one particular course of action.... at the age of 16 I would have continued my passion of working in the field of Mental Health instead of leaving it and taking up Monumental Masonry.

[nailit]

Good question Baz,
I would have trained to be a pilot, seriously. I discovered flying late in life and still get excited at the thought of been up in the air, I love it. I piloted a light aircraft once (one of those gift experience presents that come out at xmas) and regret that I didnt work and save harder when I was younger to have flying lessons.
Ah well!

[janbee]

Not get married. BIG mistake .

[Sqad]

I would have got married much later......probably early 30's ...I married the one i got and not the one i wanted.

[Sqad]

janbee...LOL ^^^

[AlwaysConfused]

I wouldn't have given up playing the violin. I was very good and pretty certain that I would have made it through to a professional orchestra. My fiddling now sounds like a cats choir. Years of practise stupidly thrown out the window

[RATTER15]

I should never have pulled that trigger!! :-(

[murraymints]

same as Jan..I should NOT have married my now ex....he did not find you after me did he Jan ? lol

[chaptazbru2]

Not got married ! (Now divorced).

[janbee]

Minty, like you, I'm now happily divorced. I hope it wasn't the same one although he did put himself about a bit !

[murraymints]

EEK !!!