If only I knew then....

[j]

Do you have an answer to this question:

"What do you know today that you wish you had known when your were 25?"

Here is mine --- I know today that it is better to get divorced (if there is no other way) BEFORE ever having children.

[GalvestonDuck]

9/11, Columbine, Columbia, or OKC. If there was some way to go back and change history so any of those events didn't happen, I wish I could.

[Lindaloo]

If I knew then what I know now I would have never had kids in the first place. lol j/k.

[Amanzi]

How tough immigration was I would have made my Mom give birth to me in the USA!

[j]

ANOTHER ONE:

I would have bought stock in Microsoft instead of the few hundred bags of .....well that's another story.

[Skywatch_NC]

Back before February 1964...when I was a 1 yr old and we had just moved to Rhode Island...one morning at a restaurant parking lot and there was some unbeknownst "black ice"...Dad carrying me...and WOOSH...end result was a skull fracture...my head had swelled to the size of an *whatever*...and it screwed up the arithmatic area of my brain in some ways. As the saying goes in life...crap happens...

Yes, I know...there ALOT of peeps out there a whole LOT worse off.

And yes, I am thankful every day for my Blessings and try to look at the glass as always being half FULL.

Eric

[streetsoldier]

I would have kept my St. Louis MPD commission, and made a career of it...plus, I'd have pursued another lady (who I knew at the time) for a soulmate.

You asked...there it is.

[azskyman]

Fortunately my awakening came in the middle of some violent and powerful times during my 20's.

But the wisdom and knowledge that continues to accumulate add wonderful dimension to the experience of life. While many grow old and cynical, I have found ways to see a tremendous amount of good and beauty around me. There are very powerful messages in the simplest of events and words.

If I had known then what I know now, I believe I really would have embraced the opportunities that being a teacher first gave me. Instead, those ten years of teaching were a mix of anger and frustration and disappointment in parents, in me, and in the educational system that was supposed to be bringing the best out in children.

I'd probably still be teaching...but would be challenged by school boards and administrators for letting my heart be such a big part of that experience.

[vbhoutex]

Steve said it very well!!! If I knew then what I know now I would have been a much more positive "force" in anything I had delved into and attempted to "make better" instead of only being a thorn in the side that was often dismissed. I now work in a much more positive way for change when I feel it is needed and like Steve am taken much more seriously than I was when I was younger and didn't know how to work for change "within the system".