If you could go back and change one thing.....

[Pburgh]

Each good, bad, ugly and wonderful experience in our life makes us what we are today. My life has been very full and interesting. I thank God each day for every moment, past and present.

If I could bring back a few people that I have lost and undo any hurt that I have caused anyone, I'd do that.

sci, great goals. I'd send you a card too.

[opera ghost]

I've thought about it more than once and I've realized that I'm pretty darn happy with my life- through all the ups and downs. The only thing I'd change right now...

If I knew now what I knew then- I'd have gotten married in the mountains like we'd origionally planned and taken my mom in law with me- like we'd origionally planned for the week and a half before the wedding. It would have been our 12 closest friends and knowing then what I know now- it would have been a mirical.

Because if I'd taken my mom in law with me to Wyoming she wouldn't have taken the extra codine that took her life... a week and a day before my wedding. And I would have had the most important people in my life there instead of 300 strangers... and I wouldn't be broke now from paying for the things I thought I had to have in a wedding in our hometown.

That's the only thing I would change.

[JCT777]

I would have bought a house sooner. My wife and I did not buy until last year, after renting for quite a few years. And the price of houses has really gone up a lot in the past few years.

[StormCrazyIowan]

I'm glad you all have had something to bring to the table- enlightens me that I am not the only one kicking myself!

[pojo]

I would have changed the fact that my teachers did not really push me in High School....now that I am a senior at UWGB, my professors are really clamping down on bad study habits. Yes, I study, I do whatever I can to find time to study.

Another thing that I would have changed was the fact that I made a mistake to transfer down to UW-Milwaukee....I didn't mind the professors, but I didn't like the fact that roommates were there to party not to learn. I was caught up in that a few times, and in the last minute had a crash course before an exam. I was a pain in the butt to attend UWM.

[j]

well...a tough one since one decision in life can totally shape your future.

Mine would be.... turn down that invitation to have sex on the very first date from my first wife. I was young...low self esteem...on the rebound from a 3 year intensive relationship, and I got royally trapped with a person bordering, if not psychotic. I was of weak will and made one bad decision after another. If only I had met my present wife then.

[OtherHD]

I think I can honestly say that I would not go back and change anything in my life. I have some made bad decisions that I certainly regret, but I also feel that they have made me a better person. What doesn't kill you can only make you stronger, right?

[Josephine96]

I'm kinda young. But I would have made sure to talk to my dad a lot more. We talked a lot. But now that he's gone I don't have many to talk too.

[stormchazer]

I try not to have regrets. It doesn't always work.

[GalvestonDuck]

I would have watched carefully when I dumped a big container of change into that darn Coinstar machine! Somehow, I suspect my mom's wedding band (from her marriage to my stepdad) got scooped up with a bunch of change on my desk, where it was sitting with my watch. That's the only place I could think of that I went in between the time I took it off the first time to the time I got up the morning and went to put it on again.

Never lost a piece of jewelry before in my life! I have my mom and dad's wedding bands, both engagement rings, my dad's class ring, my great-aunt's class ring, my dad's dogtags (yeah, not really jewelry, but still kept safe always), my stepdad's medals from Nam (same as my dad's tags), and all my jewelry. It bugs that crap outta me that I lost that one. I called the grocery store and they looked but didn't find it. I called the Coinstar customer service number and they don't have it either.

I can't change alot in my life and probably wouldn't want to. But I wish I could go back and change that one small thing.

[stormraiser]

I could make a list a mile long:

my parent's divorce
my dad not buying the farm so we had to move
the words he said to me, the words I said to him
the drinking
the anger
and on, and on

But who knows, I might have turned down a different path, made another wrong decision, hurt someone, got hurt myself. I still go through struggles about those things, but they made me who I am today, and who I will be tomorrow. I like me. There are things I need to work on -- my weight, the amount of time I spend with my wife and children, getting my priorities in line, but I wouldn't go back and change a thing

[sunnyday]

If I could change one thing, I would have gone ahead and tried to have at least 2 more children. I was very high risk with the first ones, but I should have gone for it. I would have loved a big family, all boys, preferably. I