If you could start again......

One_Of_Shanks

Lads and ladies, if you could turn the clock back......

What would you do different?

endacl

Plenty. But if I did, I wouldn't have the life I have now. So, on second thoughts, not a single thing. Might do some things sooner though.

One_Of_Shanks

endacl wrote: »

Might do some things sooner though.

Such as?

wakka12

I think regrets are toxic.I choose to actively push them out of my thoughts. Whats the point of wondering what if? Just try to do the best you can with your current life and try not to make same mistakes again.

jaxxx

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

Lads and ladies, if you could turn the clock back......

What would you do different?

Make sure I was dropped on my head as a child... repeatedly. Might knock some f***n' sense into me!

RayM

If I could turn back time, I'd take back those words that hurt you, and you'd stay.

longshanks

Hello One_of, its your cousin long here, will you drop the hedge strimmer in if you're passing? Thanks.
What would I do different? I wouldn't loan you the hedge strimmer.

endacl

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

Such as?

Personal.

Alf Veedersane

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

Lads and ladies, if you could turn the clock back......

What would you do different?

I'd turn the clock back next weekend.....when it's supposed to be.

And be on time all of next week.

Karangue

Cheap Lidl wine is taking its toll.

jaxxx

Speaking of time travel, I'd love to go back in time (to before my time) and kick the butt of whoever it was that came up with daylight savings time!

Cee-Jay-Cee

Nothing as I wouldn't want to do anything that could alter my present life and/or family.

DellyBelly

Put everything I have on Leicester City to win the league a couple of seasons ago

Pwindedd

Do we get to keep the knowledge we have now and use it to our advantage ?

I seemed to do everything ass-ways in my life. Baby at 21. split from her dad. i was living on benefits for her first 5 years of life. Then got a job in a school when she started school, and just kept plugging away keeping our heads above water. Met a guy, moved to Ireland, did some courses , got an office job, got married, did more courses and have now got myself a decent enough job that i love (most days), now separated.

I keep wondering when i'm gonna grow up and settle. If I could go back and do it all "properly" would my life be any better ? No it'd just be different i guess. I'd have tried harder at school and maybe gone to college and had my career earlier, but then if i had my kid later, i'd probably still have a dependent child/children. Instead i have a great kid, now 21, and i'm living my "twenties" life now instead of then. It's a one shot deal and wondering about what could have been will just torture you.

But i would definitely have hugged, kissed and spent more time with my dad and told him to quit the fags!

Karangue

Fags as is in gays ^

corner of hells

Karangue wrote: »

Fags as is in gays ^

Are you really that stupid or trying to be funny ?

If movies have taught me anything - and I think they have - it's that you simply can't just mess with the space/time continuum and not face terrible consequences.

No, I wouldn't go back and change anything because I'm happy where I am now and any alteration to the past would jeopardize that. And I agree with Wakka, regrets are toxic and unproductive and promote wallowing in the past rather than moving forward and embracing the future.

Karangue

corner of hells wrote: »

Are you really that stupid or trying to be funny ?

Post reported I won’t tolerate being attacked.

jaxxx

Karangue wrote: »

Post reported I won’t tolerate being attacked.

New to the internet are we?

One_Of_Shanks

Karangue wrote: »

Post reported I won’t tolerate being attacked.

Post reported for what? telling the truth?

One_Of_Shanks

Pwindedd wrote: »

Do we get to keep the knowledge we have now and use it to our advantage ?

I seemed to do everything ass-ways in my life. Baby at 21. split from her dad. i was living on benefits for her first 5 years of life. Then got a job in a school when she started school, and just kept plugging away keeping our heads above water. Met a guy, moved to Ireland, did some courses , got an office job, got married, did more courses and have now got myself a decent enough job that i love (most days), now separated.

I keep wondering when i'm gonna grow up and settle. If I could go back and do it all "properly" would my life be any better ? No it'd just be different i guess. I'd have tried harder at school and maybe gone to college and had my career earlier, but then if i had my kid later, i'd probably still have a dependent child/children. Instead i have a great kid, now 21, and i'm living my "twenties" life now instead of then. It's a one shot deal and wondering about what could have been will just torture you.

But i would definitely have hugged, kissed and spent more time with my dad and told him to quit the fags!

Great post!

Capt'n Midnight

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

Lads and ladies, if you could turn the clock back......

How far ?

I'd keep the Neaderthals alive

and the trilobites

I wouldn'd de-evolve our tails, claws, ability to make vitamin C , ability to continuously grow new teeth, third eye and all the other cool stuff we've lost over the years.

Pwindedd

Karangue wrote: »

Fags as is in gays ^

corner of hells wrote: »

Are you really that stupid or trying to be funny ?

It's ok - hes just trying to be funny, failing miserably I might add, but giving it a go none-the-less. My dad appreciated effort - as long as you tried you were ok with him. Very low tolerance for prats though

donegaLroad

you could go to bed tonight, wake up tomorrow, and call that starting again. This is still your life... you have the same heart beating in you as was beating all those years ago.

Clearing your mind might be the most important thing you do.

fineso.mom

Karangue wrote: »

Post reported I won’t tolerate being attacked.

You weren't attacked, you were asked a question.

Pwindedd

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

Great post!

Why thank you - what would you do different Shanks.. ? you started it after all

elperello

Fail again, fail better.

fmpisces

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

Lads and ladies, if you could turn the clock back......

What would you do different?

Only thing that really stands out for me is that I would not have gotten married.
Lordy, hindsight is a wonderful thing!

jaxxx

elperello wrote: »

Fail again, fail better.

Is that like... an alternate universe's version of Die Hard 2???

freshpopcorn

I wouldn't get worked up/bothered over little issues.

Pwindedd

donegaLroad wrote: »

you could go to bed tonight, wake up tomorrow, and call that starting again. This is still your life... you have the same heart beating in you as was beating all those years ago.

Clearing your mind might be the most important thing you do.

it's an overused cliche about "today being the first day of the rest of your life" but that's the thing about cliches, they're usually bang on.

What's gone is unchangeable but the future has no such restrictions.

Capt'n Midnight

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

How far ?

I'd keep the Neaderthals alive

and the trilobites

I wouldn'd de-evolve our tails, claws, ability to make vitamin C , ability to continuously grow new teeth, third eye and all the other cool stuff we've lost over the years.

And being able to grow back limbs and tails too.

Larbre34

Karangue wrote: »

Post reported I won’t tolerate being attacked.

I'm surprised you aren't more used to it.

By the way your homosexual/cigarettes pun was beyond pathetic.

gitzy16v

It's been a tough life,late teens and 20's wasted but in my 30's now with 2 brilliant boys I'm proud to call my sons.
If I changed anything they wouldn't be here and that's simply just not worth it.

jaxxx

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

How far ?

I'd keep the Neaderthals alive

and the trilobites

I wouldn'd de-evolve our tails, claws, ability to make vitamin C , ability to continuously grow new teeth, third eye and all the other cool stuff we've lost over the years.

But what if we have it all wrong... what if it was homo sapiens that went extinct... and WE are the neanderthals? :eek:

One_Of_Shanks

Pwindedd wrote: »

Why thank you - what would you do different Shanks.. ? you started it after all

Just saw the person a few posts beneath saying they wouldn't have got married.

Thats the sort of thing I think is the hardest and saw my uncle go through a divorce and yeah i had that sort of thing in mind starting thread.

Yeah mine would be last Xmas Eve getting hammered on whiskey in front of my lady's father and the show I made of myself.
The fookin things I said.
Til the day I die I will regret it but cant take it back. But it was awful. Hardly a day goes by. Made the ultimate tool of myself.

I wish I could unwind to that day.

eviltwin

I'd have put more thought into my college choices and studied hard er for the Leaving but that's about it.

corner of hells

I'd pay more attention to relationships, I've a failed marriage and a few relationships behind me.

I'd pay mo..... doorbell, takeaways here.

donegaLroad

Pwindedd wrote: »

it's an overused cliche about "today being the first day of the rest of your life" but that's the thing about cliches, they're usually bang on.

What's gone is unchangeable but the future has no such restrictions.

yep, its a bit of a cliche... but we have no choice. As the old saying goes, Time and tide waits for no man

Pwindedd

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

Just saw the person a few posts beneath saying they wouldn't have got married.

Thats the sort of thing I think is the hardest and saw my uncle go through a divorce and yeah i had that sort of thing in mind starting thread.

Yeah mine would be last Xmas Eve getting hammered on whiskey in front of my lady's father and the show I made of myself.
The fookin things I said.
Til the day I die I will regret it but cant take it back. But it was awful. Hardly a day goes by. Made the ultimate tool of myself.

I wish I could unwind to that day.

Were they just silly things you said or did you let fly with a rant / inappropriateness? Don't want details but it may be one of those things you all come to laugh about in years to come. If you take care of and love his daughter he'll forgive you the odd transgression.

jaxxx

donegaLroad wrote: »

yep, its a bit of a cliche... but we have no choice. As the old saying goes, Time and tide waits for no man

or woman.

Come on, we're living in the age of political correctness my friend!!

One_Of_Shanks

Pwindedd wrote: »

Were they just silly things you said or did you let fly with a rant / inappropriateness? Don't want details but it may be one of those things you all come to laugh about in years to come. If you take care of and love his daughter he'll forgive you the odd transgression.

Armageddon

elperello

jaxxx wrote: »

Is that like... an alternate universe's version of Die Hard 2???

Mr Beckett.
A great man entirely with the words.

Pwindedd

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

Armageddon

oh dear - are you still talking ? or is it awkward

OldMrBrennan83

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One_Of_Shanks

Pwindedd wrote: »

oh dear - are you still talking ? or is it awkward

Well, texts have been shared. Nice ones.

But it was last Xmas Eve and we haven't met since then.

I'll be honest, if it was My own Dad he'd have laughed it off. He's have said ah just whiskey talking.
If it was my sister's fella like.

But I dunno.

He bought a house forher brother. But nothing for her.

Ah its just how it is

Pwindedd

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

Well, texts have been shared. Nice ones.

But it was last Xmas Eve and we haven't met since then.

I'll be honest, if it was My own Dad he'd have laughed it off. He's have said ah just whiskey talking.
If it was my sister's fella like.

But I dunno.

It'll be ok. If you go over this Xmas just present him with a lovely bottle of the best whiskey you can afford, tell him he's not to open it till you've left the premises, laugh it off, and then sit down with your cup of tea and get him talking about the good old days. Folks love reminiscing. And they love a good listener.

Just seen your edit, yeh families can be weird and do things we'd find disagreeable. But nout you can do.

Hitman3000

I have 2 great kids, terrified if I turned back the clock I'd miss out on them. Not worth it.

Miss Demeanour

If is pointless.....everything you have done and everything you have experienced in life so far has led you to exactly where you are now.....imho life is pre ordained and what is for you wont pass you and what is meant to be will be. You can do nothing about your past and the future too is beyond your control.....live in the now as it is a gift.....its why it is called the present.

Guy Sajer

Miss Demeanour wrote: »

.imho life is pre ordained and what is for you wont pass you and what is meant to be will be.

I always hear this bull****. If I just sit in this room now and refuse to eat or drink water... will what is pre-ordained come walzing in the door. Or does it mean I was pre ordained to starve myself to death?

Miss Demeanour

Guy Sajer wrote: »

I always hear this bull****. If I just sit in this room now and refuse to eat or drink water... will what is pre-ordained come walzing in the door. Or does it mean I was pre ordained to starve myself to death?

It was pre ordained you would starve yourself to death obviously......I wouldnt advise it though.