What part of your life would you like rewind to and play over and over again?

Honestly... I wouldn't want to replay any of my life. I love my life just the way it is, and I wouldn't change a thing. Sure, I've had the ups and downs and good times and difficult times, BUT it's who I am, and it's those experiences that have created the woman I am today.

I have great memories, and I have some terrible memories, too, but if it weren't for those bad times and bad memories, I could never fully appreciate the great things in my life! I dated a lot of frogs, snakes, lizards, and toads in my day, and I had my heart broken many times...BUT, even though I experienced some of the things I did, I still wouldn't change it. I met a wonderful man, and he treats me like a queen.

If I hadn't been with the scum of the pond, I would never truly appreciate who I have in my life today! I wouldn't have my husband or my daughter or the wonderful experiences we have had together! I can see this!

Who was it that said, "You must experience the lowest of the valley to appreciate the peak of the mountain"....I think it was Nixon (or something to that nature anyway). I thank God every day for the blessings that have been bestowed upon me, and I have lived an incredible life with so many wonderful experiences. I have traveled the entire country with my father...how many fathers and daughters can say they've done that?

I was given the opportunity to travel as an exchange student, and I performed in the Aloha Bowl after being 1 of 100 chosen across the United States. I have had an incredible education, and I have been given many gifts! I have awesome memories from my life, and I want to keep it that way!

I want to continue living my life and see what is in store for me tomorrow...we don't get today back, so I want to enjoy each day as it is given to me! Great question! .

Simply put.... I'd have to say all the times I got to spend with my father before he died of cancer. He was the greatest.

Christmas Day when I was 2 yrs old We always would go over to my maternal grandparent's house on Christmas Day and the moment I would want to rewind to and play over and over again is in the afternoon after we'd had a wonderful meal prepared by my grandmother and after opening gifts. My grandfather would want me to sit on his lap/knee and he would pretend to forget the words to several well-known songs and he'd ask me if I would sing it for him. Little did I know he had a tape recorder on the whole time recording our interaction and my singing and then he would sing with me and sometimes he would sing the songs for me and would ask me to tell him a story or answer a question.

He did this every Christmas Day from the time I could talk until the day he died and he kept every one of those cassette tapes and my grandmother gave them to me after he died and I cherish them so much because I can play them whenever I want and hear my grandfather's voice again even though he's gone. He was my best friend my entire life and he had a great sense of humor which my family has informed me I've inherited from him and those tapes hold so much meaning for me and that's why I would choose that day to play over and over again.

The part where my husband and I were in the midst of raising our three now adult children. Strange as this may seem, it took me a long time to realize they had all left. I was down for a couple of years until it suddenly dawned on me what was missing and the fact that I was suffering from "The Empty Nest Syndrome!"

Me, who doesn't hesitate to give everyone advice from the heart could not see within myself. I fully knew and had read about the "Empty Nest Syndrome" for years, yet I failed to see it within myself. We moved to Florida six years ago, along with our adult children.

They are still in our immediate area and we see them several times a week, yet something still was missing, something big and I couldn't put my finger on it for a couple of years. I kept thinking it was the house, our big dream home. I thought I missed our home and all the pretty things in it but in the back of mind I can remember how empty the big house was at times when we lived there, when the first two left, it didn't make sense.

I finally realized, I didn't miss the house but I missed what happened in that house while we lived in it. I was needed to the fullest. I loved being a mom to my three children, at one time, it was my responsibility to see that they were fulfilling their educational needs, their day to day needs, whether it was a football game, a volleyball game, a prom or a graduation and all the preparations for college.

I was needed and in a big way! I concluded and had to face that this part of my life was over and I would never be needed in the same way again. It's funny how I kept trying to hold onto any need they had as adults but I was never fulfilled in the same way, because it was only bits and pieces.

I now have the answers I needed and I can look back and see how wonderful those times were in our lives and how much laughter was in our household and all of the incredible memories we will always have of those times. That's why I often tell people to cherish those years, even though they may seem stressful, these are the memories you will look back on as the most precious in your life. I now know that my husband and I did a great job and we were so blessed and we are now at another great phase of our lives where we have the pleasure of watching our adult children become a little more like us each and everyday.

I hear the same standards, values and compassion in their voices that we have instilled in them throughout life. Isn't that a wonderful thing to realize! Best Wishes!

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Two weeks Getting married to my husband and our honeymoon. The wedding was so special and the reception so much fun. And then two weeks with NO pressures of any kind.Heaven.

I'd do that two weeks over again and again and again....anytime! .

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