If you had a time machine...

**madhen** · 10-21-2009, 11:23 PM

...and could make just one significant change to your life, what would it be? Or would you choose to not change anything? How many years back would you go back, knowing that any change would possibly alter everything that came after?

**MaryCarney** · 10-22-2009, 12:17 AM

Oh wow!!! I would go back to 1974 and answer someone's question differently.

**lotsadebt** · 10-22-2009, 09:31 AM

I would not have let my husband convince me to let him take over the finances. He still would have had his bipolar crisis, had his own financial drama, but it would have happened quicker and I would not have been drug in as far as I had.

Since I love my kids so much, I wouldn't have changed him. They are the product of the marriage. The same situation would have happened but quicker and less collateral damge.

**Surilda** · 10-22-2009, 10:48 AM

I would go back to 2004 and take back a question I asked.

**baxjul** · 10-22-2009, 11:29 AM

I would go back to 1976.

**madhen** · 10-22-2009, 11:54 AM

And what would you do differently, baxjul?

**monkeywrangler71** · 10-22-2009, 01:17 PM

I'd go back ten years and buy gold.

Personal mistakes I'll leave alone, since I don't know what I'd lose if I fixed them.

**Pemberleyan** · 10-22-2009, 01:47 PM

Wow -- what an interesting question. It's easy to say what I'd do, but then again, I don't know what worse might have happened.

I think I'd go back to, say, age 15 (1976) and not date my high school "sweetheart" or at least begged him not to ride motorcycles anymore and perhaps he'd still be alive. I'd definitely not date my former fiance. Hmmm. A pattern of bad relationships here....

After that in college I would have chosen a different field to go into so that I wouldn't have carpal tunnel!

**Contrary Housewife** · 10-22-2009, 02:14 PM

I would either go back to around 1990 and gotten out of that relationship a lot faster, or to around 1995 and changed my behavior on a certain night in front of a certain person. But in either case I suspect it would lead to me not meeting the love of my life, the man I eventually married.

(Although I gotta wonder about Fate sometimes, as there were two instances in the decade before we met where we came *this* close to meeting by chance and didn't... the timing would have been wrong anyway. When we did eventually find each other it was right for both of us.)

**Debbie-cat** · 10-22-2009, 07:33 PM

Wow what a question madhen.... I would go back to 1998 and notlisten to my heart at that time.

**shoiji** · 10-22-2009, 07:44 PM

So many choices, probably back to college days and more book learning. lol

**forHISglory** · 10-22-2009, 07:54 PM

This a Ray Bradbury type of question!

I live with very few regrets that I would want to go back and fix. But I would like to go back to 1978 and start over on a relationship that began then. Yes, I would do a lot of things differently.

**gapeach** · 10-22-2009, 07:57 PM

I wouldn't go back. Sure I've made mistakes but I've learned and grown from all of them. They have helped to make me who I am.

**georgiamom** · 10-22-2009, 08:00 PM

That opens a lot of what if's. I would go back to 1985 and tell my sister not to leave her house and stay home so her and her husband would still be alive. A drunk driver hit the car her and her husband and another couple was in and killed all four. I know that is strange but I wouldnt change my life but I would want to change hers. But it would probably change mine and it might not be the same and I might not be where I am or the person I am but she would be alive and I miss her everyday of my life. She was my only sister. They had only been married six days. I guess God took them at their happiest time. But if I had a time machine I would do that or at least tell her I loved her because I didnt get to say it before she left. But we know not what the Lord has planned for us only he does and we have to leave it all for him to decide. It made me grow up faster. I learned a lot an had a lot put on me looking after my parents one who was very sick at the time thank goodness he is better now but I think it made me stronger to some degree. Yep I would probably tell her to attempt to cook instead of going out to eat. She was not a very good cook. Just learning. It was always a family joke.