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What would you change in your past & why?

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  • 03-12-2020 5:58am
    #1
    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,323 ✭✭✭


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


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    #2
    SineadSpears
    Registered Users Posts: 2,645 ✭✭✭SineadSpears


    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


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    Sonics2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    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.


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    #4
    parttime
    Registered Users Posts: 284 ✭✭parttime


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


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    #5
    tringle
    Registered Users Posts: 865 ✭✭✭tringle


    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.


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    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,929 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


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


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    kippy
    Registered Users Posts: 18,429 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    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


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    Xtrail14
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 253 ✭✭Xtrail14


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


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    Sam Hain
    Registered Users Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭Sam Hain


    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.


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    #10
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Quite a lot , I've a lot of regrets


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    #11
    Samuri Suicide
    Registered Users Posts: 285 ✭✭Samuri Suicide


    Not putting Iloveyourvibes and Mr feg on ignore sooner


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    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    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:


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    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    I would have studied more and smoked less


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Aye, smoking.


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    SB71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭SB71


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


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    SineadSpears
    Registered Users Posts: 2,645 ✭✭✭SineadSpears


    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:


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    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    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???


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    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Nothing, no regrets
    No I've no regrets


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    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    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


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    Stateofyou
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,431 ✭✭✭Stateofyou


    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:


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    Cody montana
    Registered Users Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭Cody montana


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


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    #22
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Feisar


    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.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #23
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    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 ?


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    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    #25
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    those dont sound like things to regret ?

    Yea on second thoughts yer right!

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #26
    PhilOssophy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭PhilOssophy


    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.


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    #27
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    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


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    #28
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    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.


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    #29
    biZrb
    Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭biZrb


    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.


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    Katgurl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭Katgurl


    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.


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    bocaman
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭bocaman


    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.


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