If you could go back in time, and change one thing in your life what would it be?

If I could go back in time, I would choose to go back to Labor Day, 2007. I was living in Denver and not really aware of how depressed and in pain my brother was at the time. My brother lived in Monterey, CA.My sister drove down from San Francisco to take him in for psychiatric care.

We didn't know he had purchased a gun a month before. My sister was talking with my mother who was taking care of him at the time. He got very agitated and said he would wait outside.

My sister was pulled in two many directions at that moment... trying to get directions to the hospital. Two minutes later my sister heard a bang, but told herself it was just a car back firing. She looked all around the property but couldn't find him.

She drove around a five block radius but didn't see him. She called the police and they found him on the property next door.My sister is devastated. She feels responsible and I can hear the suffering in her voice everyday.

She knows it's not her fault, but... I would go back to the beginning of that weekend and be with my brother. I would get him the help he needs. I would tell him that I love him.

If I had to, I would tell him that I know of his present intentions and would also tell him exactly how everything would play out if he went through with it. S sisters heavy guilt of responsibility; his moms grief and despair of losing her son. Even if he decided to still go through with his plans, I would have had the chance to hug him and tell him I love him.

I wish I could have been there. I wish he was still here. *last picture I took of him... holding up a whole oak tree.

When I went through my first divorce and was a single father I decided to hang out with "the guys" rather than my usual which was only to hang out with women. The guys I met during that time of grieving were a bad influence (guys really are dumb) and to fit in it took very little effort and I was better at being bad than any of them. Those associations led to the most troubling times of my life.

Looking back if I'd never met them and kept socializing with women I'd have still met my wife now and enjoyed every good thing that happened but without any of the bad. I did a good job of keeping those two aspects of my life separated. I wouldn't miss it at all.

The one thing I would change is that during school, I would not have worried so much about what others thought. I got over that by the time I hit 20, and since then, life has been much less stressful. I wear what I want and stay true to my beliefs and find I am a better person for it.

I would have waited longer after breaking up with my fiance before starting a new relationship, and I would not have let that new person talk me out of continuing in my field in graduate school. I would have waited until both of us were financially stable, by which time I might have figured him out and decided it wasn't worth it.

I will add some more fun in my life or in my child hood because after marriage you havenot so much time for enjoyment as you have responsibilities of your home and children.

Honestly, I wouldn't change a thing. Although my life has been far from perfect I believe in destiny as it unfolds through time.

I like to pride myself on not regretting anything in my past but there might be on event I would like to do differently. When I was about 10 I had a cousin who was sort of the family eccentric and we would exchange postcards back and forth. I wasn't too faithful about writing him back but I did occasionally.It was his birthday and I took my sweet old time sending him a birthday letter...I still have the letter.

I never sent it because only days after his birthday he was admitted into the hospital with AIDS related pnemonia. Not too long after that he passed away.It wasn't until years later that I fully realized that of all my family members he was my match. In many, many ways we are very similar and within the last few years I really could have used his help.

I wish I had sent that last letter so that he would have known during those last few weeks that I cared and loved him.

There would definitely be a couple of relationships I wouldn't have gotten into.

Although I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason and the struggles should only make a person stronger....if I had to change one thing...I wouldn't of wasted the last year and a half of my life (age 19 & 20) in a worthless relationship that did nothing but drag me down. Although I find it rather funny that his New years present was me breaking it off...(he deserved it trust me) I wish I would of never bothered to start the relationship in the first place. I have gained nothing from having that man in my life, yet he has gained the world.

I found him a job, and education option, car, new friends, and a new life....but I just put myself in a rough place because I neglected anything I needed for the whole duration of the relationship. Maybe I care too much about others...maybe I don't care enough about myself. I hadn't of gone into that relationship I would of never been laid off from my last job...I would be working, happy, on my own and probably moved out of this state by now.

But the harsh reality is I am jobless, on unemployment, had to move back in with the parents and am not happy about any of it! Moral of the story is...he may be good looking...but make sure you know him before you waste your time! If I only I would listen to my own advice.. Good question!

I wouldn't change anything, my life has become what it has become and I need to accept it. Are there things that I could change that I would *think* would make it better for me? Possibly, but the grass is always greener on the other side.

I just look to make the best of what I have. That said, what I WOULD do is go back to being a child. The innocence, the lack of responsibility, the carelessness and the incredible imagination.

I think I would truly appreciate that now, realizing how simple life was and the amount of fun I could have with two friends and a nerf gun. Those were the days.

If I could go back in time , I would love to be a child again. You can play and play and play. When your an adult you have to worry about so many things money wise and etc.. At least as a child you can enjoy life with no worries in the world.

I was in my 30's and our neighbors daughter, cousin, and a friend had been arguing with my daughter. They were doing and saying horrible things. The verbal abuse spilled over to me one day as I sat on my front porch.

I confronted the parents about the situation. The father defended his daughter and niece and belittled their young guest. My husband and I decided to sell our home and move away because the tension became so bad.In hind sight I wish we had put up a privacy fence and stayed in our home.

The move caused problems in our marriage, we lost our home, our children got involved in situations that might not have occurred had we not moved. We would still have our home, our marriage probably wouldn't have suffered under the stress of the new mortgage, job changes, school changes, misbehavior of the kids. The grass is not always greener in another pasture... sometimes you just need to work on the pasture you are in.

Would have paid more attention buying domain names, created my first startup in my 20's not 30's and drink more chocalate milk...

I wouldn't have gotten married so young. You can't possibly know what true, lasting love is before you've gone out on your own and experienced some things. I hate to put a number on it because everyone is so different, but I would say it would have to be at least 25 in my book.

I would have studied harder in HS, gotten a scholarship at a college far away from where I lived, and left my family behind. My life would be very different now, and I would not have my children, but maybe it would be better for all of us. Because of my toxic family, I was less of a mother than I should have been, and never really learned to be independent until it was too late to do it well.My children suffered and our relationship suffered.

I would go back and never have them if I knew for sure it was going to take away their pain, that they would be born into a better family and a better situation.

I like to think living with my Father when I was 5-15 instead of my Mother would have had a better outcome for both of us. He loved me a lot and was devastated when I left. Later he became paralyzed after a big lifestyle change and later passed away.

I have to wonder if I lived with him through school if he would have kept his high paying job and never gotten into the situation that left him paralyzed. On the other hand, if I did that I wouldn't have the 4 kids I have now....I'd probably just go back a few years and spend more time with the kids. Altering the past once you have a family has terrible ends any way you try to make something better.

I would bring back my father and all my relatives who are no more. I want to relive them again. I want to see my full family back together, smiling and happy.

May God make my dream come true some day in my life. Thanks.

It would be my education. I always swore my life would be that of some kind of professional. An Attorney, teacher, a model, accountant something.

Unfortunetly I chose (so to speak lol) to get pregnant and marry my love at the age of 20. I had not enrolled into any kind of college classes or anything of the such before becoming pregnant. I just worked at my job until I could not work any longer.So the fact that I did not carry out my own wish for a professional title is what I would change.

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I would not change a thing! Sure I have made mistakes along the way, I am sure that we all have, but I would not be the person that I am now without the experiences and the subsequent character building.

Well - I'll tell you then. I'd start over from birth. I've made too many mistakes.

I know we learn from our mistakes. I've also been gifted to have, many, many blessings. But the warped memories, of the nights in which I cried myself to sleep.

Or nights when I starved myself in pain..... Makes me want to be reborn. You know what though. When all of us think about it Hasn't everything worked out for each of us, in ways in which we cannot believe?

Hasn't everything turned around for us, in ways that have warped other people? Haven't we all survived the storm? Danced in the rain?

Celebrated? Enjoyed? I think we have.

Although we want to change everything and start anew - as much as we can't - things have worked out, and everything is ok. Now all we need to do is pray for those who are in worse shape than we are, right?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.