What would you change in your past & why?

JustAThought · 03-12-2020 5:58am #1

If you could roll back time what would you
change from your past and why?

SineadSpears · 03-12-2020 6:25am

I should have dumped the deadbeat boyfriend & went out with the uncle. I think it would have been exactly what I needed at that time & genuinely think I would have grown a lot from spending time with him. We got along brilliant, but I was a lot younger & didn't have the nerve to take the leap so it is what it is

Sonics2k · 03-12-2020 6:49am

I don't really do regrets, a lot of choices make us better people.

But smoking. I really want to quit smoking and I just ****ing can't.

parttime · 03-12-2020 6:57am

Same here. Smoking. Did it for 25 years.
Off them now, but I'm worried i may have left it too late...ðŸ˜

tringle · 03-12-2020 7:03am

Rented a house for a year in rural France with a pool on 11th March this year and spent the last 9 months working from home there.

Gregor Samsa · 03-12-2020 8:23am

I would have put a lot more thought into this post and either come up with something poignant or funny.

kippy · 03-12-2020 8:37am

JustAThought wrote: »

If you could roll back time what would you
change from your past and why?

I would have changed the lotto numbers I did last night to share that jackpot.
Invested in bitcoin/Amazon etc. Etc

Xtrail14 · 03-12-2020 8:38am

Shouldn’t have had that Chinese last night, my ring is red raw.

Sam Hain · 03-12-2020 8:55am

SineadSpears wrote: »

I should have dumped the deadbeat boyfriend & went out with the uncle . I think it would have been exactly what I needed at that time & genuinely think I would have grown a lot from spending time with him. We got along brilliant, but I was a lot younger & didn't have the nerve to take the leap so it is what it is

I would change the legalities around incest in your county.

Mad_maxx · 03-12-2020 9:02am

Quite a lot , I've a lot of regrets

Samuri Suicide · 03-12-2020 9:04am

Not putting Iloveyourvibes and Mr feg on ignore sooner

sbsquarepants · 03-12-2020 9:46am

I'd chop and change jobs, i've been working in the same place for 20 years and stuck in a rut for the last 10. It's a comfortable enough rut, but it's still a rut. I only have myself to blame.

I'd swap a couple of the women i slept with, with the ones i didn't. I have 2 major regrets on either side of that fence.

But above all i wish i'd had the sense to realise i hadn't actually missed the bitcoin boat when it hit €5, then again when they were €100, €1000 and most recently €10,000. I have a god awful feeling i'll be thinking the same when it hits a million!

I still own zero bitcoin, oh my god what might have been:mad:

eviltwin · 03-12-2020 10:12am

I would have studied more and smoked less

biko · 03-12-2020 10:28am

Aye, smoking.

SB71 · 03-12-2020 11:42am

yeah ill go along with smoking, 27+ years smoking digusting habit and a nightmare togive up but i havent smoked now in 10 years

SineadSpears · 03-12-2020 11:43am

Sam Hain wrote: »

I would change the legalities around incest in your county.

That story is very dear to my heart. Please don't pick out flaws in my grammar :pac:

Cee-Jay-Cee · 03-12-2020 11:52am

tringle wrote: »

Rented a house for a year in rural France with a pool on 11th March this year and spent the last 9 months working from home there.

So you would have changed that and not rented a house in France???

Kylta · 03-12-2020 11:53am

Nothing, no regrets
No I've no regrets

Mad_maxx · 03-12-2020 12:04pm

going to sound both smug and trivial but

i had the wrong haircut for the first thirty five years of my life , near skinhead tight , didnt suit me at all , thanks to my mothers genes , ive a good head of hair and until i met my wife to be , never appreciated it - got it styled properly

probably why i was single for so many years prior to meeting my fiance

Stateofyou · 03-12-2020 12:05pm

Would tell certain family members to take a flying leap a lot sooner. Too many years spent in unnecessary stress and all the effects of that, because family. :rolleyes:

Cody montana · 03-12-2020 12:06pm

I would have opted for work experience in the USA.
Rather than a one horse town in Cork.

Feisar · 03-12-2020 12:09pm

It annoys me when I think of the amount of money I pissed up against the wall in my twenties. I also let a few good things slip by because I was too busy being jack the lad and shagging anything that moved.

Mad_maxx · 03-12-2020 12:10pm

Feisar wrote: »

It annoys me when I think of the amount of money I pissed up against the wall in my twenties. I also let a few good things slip by because I was too busy being jack the lad and shagging anything that moved.

those dont sound like things to regret ?

03-12-2020 12:10pm

Smoking would be the big one.

The second would be nipping the procrastination habit early.. I've wasted a lot of time with that rubbish.

Third, would have been applying myself more in university the first time around.

Fourth, would have been leaving Ireland when I was younger, rather than waiting until my 30s. It's been great to experience what I have abroad at this age, but I think it would have been an amazingly positive influence on me, if I'd started doing it in my 20s.

Feisar · 03-12-2020 12:26pm

Mad_maxx wrote: »

those dont sound like things to regret ?

Yea on second thoughts yer right!

PhilOssophy · 03-12-2020 12:44pm

Feisar wrote: »

Yea on second thoughts yer right!

You will never get that sort of craic back, I did the same and I hadn't a cent to my name at 30 years of age. Best thing I ever did and saved hard in 30s, now own home.

Would never swap the craic and carnage in the 20s for a more peaceful life.

Mad_maxx · 04-12-2020 12:10pm

PhilOssophy wrote: »

You will never get that sort of craic back, I did the same and I hadn't a cent to my name at 30 years of age. Best thing I ever did and saved hard in 30s, now own home.

Would never swap the craic and carnage in the 20s for a more peaceful life.

the important thing is not to be still spending like a drunken sailor in your mid to late thirties , have to do the " cop on a bit " thing eventually

Your Face · 04-12-2020 12:15pm

I would have got a car on the road a bit earlier.

Also, I play guitar and I wished I joined certain bands when I was younger.

biZrb · 04-12-2020 12:17pm

I wish I had been more selfish and less of a people pleaser. I made a few decisions that pleased other people and were good for them rather than being better for me.

Katgurl · 04-12-2020 12:22pm

I would have not left so late to learn to drive.

I would have made some attempts to budget / monitor my spending. It's not rocket science, I earned a lot and really didn't reap the benefits - I was always short.

Nothing else really which is not to say I haven't made mistakes. I've made plenty but gained something back from all of them.

bocaman · 04-12-2020 12:28pm

In my 20's I'd a chance to work abroad. I stayed put. Big mistake.

For too long I was loyal to people who didn't give a damn about me. A few years ago I copped myself on and broke off contact with these people. Sorry I didn't do this sooner.

Strumms · 04-12-2020 12:36pm

In my work situation I wish I’d have taken advice from a colleague regarding a certain manager.... this colleague was a bit of a negative Nigel at times but he turned out to be 100% correct about him......

Wish I’d learned to drive a little earlier too..

Also wish I’d taken up guitar earlier. Always had a great interest and aptitude for music.. in my younger days though, recorder as a kid...then clarinet and piano were my instruments, I was a good clarinet player... for whatever reason I couldn’t get good at the piano... actually I think it was because I didn’t have one at home and needed to rely on using my neighbors.. but yeah, I’ve only in the last two years or so, reached a decent proficiency on the guitar after taking it up... maybe 15 years ago..

banie01 · 04-12-2020 12:41pm

Nothing.
I've had a lot of hurt and probably caused just as much but all those were steps to me.
To the "Who" I am now.
I'm happy with me, there's nothing I'd like to change in my past because I'd be afraid it would change the equilibrium I have now, and that I struggled for a longtime to find.

Wizard! · 04-12-2020 12:42pm

Nothing. I have seen "Back to the Future" trilogy and I don't want to risk it

banie01 · 04-12-2020 12:43pm

SineadSpears wrote: »

That story is very dear to my heart. Please don't pick out flaws in my grammar :pac:

It could be worse!
It could be flaws in your granma!

Mimon · 04-12-2020 12:44pm

Xtrail14 wrote: »

Shouldn’t have had that Chinese last night, my ring is red raw.

Yep.

Love the hot Indians and can handle them going down but not worth it for the volcano arse the next day.

Mimon · 04-12-2020 12:50pm

bocaman wrote: »

In my 20's I'd a chance to work abroad. I stayed put. Big mistake.

For too long I was loyal to people who didn't give a damn about me. A few years ago I copped myself on and broke off contact with these people. Sorry I didn't do this sooner.

Good lesson. People who don't give you respect are not worth bothering with.

Made the mistake of telling a colleague I thought I could confide in that I was getting a decent pay rise which is well overdue and have just walked in on him bitching about this.

Will be a good morning/good afternoon and keep walking relationship from now on. When I was younger would have kept more friendly, as you get older have no problem dropping people like this.

sbsquarepants · 04-12-2020 1:52pm

Mimon wrote: »

Yep.

Love the hot Indians and can handle them going down but not worth it for the volcano arse the next day.

Is this an actual thing?

You hear it all the time but i've never once experienced anything remotely like it, i love spicy food and have on occasion eaten stuff that felt like lava going down, but not one single time did my arse notice any difference!

JustAThought · 05-12-2020 1:57am

I let some good friendships go by not being emotionally intelligent enough to fix them or to realise how valuable they were and impossible to replace. I think they are my biggest regret. You can always make money again! Also, possibly, buying a house. My jury is still out on that one.

jelem · 05-12-2020 2:14am

in 1970s was in a different place and options were
2 week all expenses paid hang gliding course in bavaria or
2 weeks in ireland sorting out arrangements for a wedding.
as grow older priorities and life take a ddifferent meaning
along with what further oppertunities you lose.

gogo · 05-12-2020 2:49am

I regret having a massive row with my mother over braces when I was about 13.. I won and I didn’t end up getting them ... I was an idiot

Raffo69 · 05-12-2020 2:56am

I regret following through on that fart.

jelem · 05-12-2020 3:37am

gogo wrote: »

I regret having a massive row with my mother over braces when I was about 13.. I won and I didn’t end up getting them ... I was an idiot

unlucky one as many proven right

jelem · 05-12-2020 3:39am

gogo wrote: »

I regret having a massive row with my mother over braces when I was about 13.. I won and I didn’t end up getting them ... I was an idiot

freddy mercury etc. so no big deal

Kaybaykwah · 05-12-2020 3:56am

I should have wiped them fingerprints offa that car trunk...

SineadSpears · 05-12-2020 12:30pm

bocaman wrote: »

In my 20's I'd a chance to work abroad. I stayed put. Big mistake.

For too long I was loyal to people who didn't give a damn about me. A few years ago I copped myself on and broke off contact with these people. Sorry I didn't do this sooner.

Same here. & then I went & got myself pregnant on top of that just to rub salt into my wounds. I always said I wasnt the sharpest tool :rolleyes:

jmlad2020 · 05-12-2020 11:41pm

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I'd chop and change jobs, i've been working in the same place for 20 years and stuck in a rut for the last 10. It's a comfortable enough rut, but it's still a rut. I only have myself to blame.

I'd swap a couple of the women i slept with, with the ones i didn't. I have 2 major regrets on either side of that fence.

But above all i wish i'd had the sense to realise i hadn't actually missed the bitcoin boat when it hit €5, then again when they were €100, €1000 and most recently €10,000. I have a god awful feeling i'll be thinking the same when it hits a million!

I still own zero bitcoin, oh my god what might have been:mad:

Buy some so you have no more regrets...

ILoveYourVibes · 05-12-2020 11:45pm

JustAThought wrote: »

If you could roll back time what would you
change from your past and why?

Only my mindset i suppose but this is impossible!

jmlad2020 · 05-12-2020 11:48pm

Wasting away my youth memorising pointless pieces of information for the leaving cert when I could have been reading up about investing and learning how the world of money works. Pretty sure we all would be better off financially if we were more switched on in our youths.

Our curriculum unfortunately rewards those who can regurgitate endless pages of information, but doesn't encourage actual creative thinking, something that is needed in the real world.

jaxxx · 05-12-2020 11:51pm

Being born.

triona1 · 05-12-2020 11:56pm

Id not sweat the big stuff everything works out someway.

What would you change in your past & why?

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