Time for a new poll!

**Maria** · 01-26-2006, 05:56 PM

If you woke up tomorrow and you'd gone back to when you were a newborn baby, but you still had all the knowledge you have now (are you with me?), what would you do differently?

And assuming you don't fall into a catagory, pick the nearest, VOTE, and then tell us below what you'd do. (You know how I get when you don't vote. Olden-days women died so you can vote on my polls, you know. This is because I killed them and then I learnt computer skills in prison. Only kidding. Go and vote now please)

**Judy Canty** · 01-26-2006, 06:33 PM

Making mistakes has been my education. Why change a good thing?

**Blake** · 01-26-2006, 06:36 PM

I'd do it all, except the last one. Not because the fuehrer was a swell guy in my book, but because my parents weren't even born back then!

Throw in a time machine and I'll put a bullet in ol' Adolf as well.

**Maria** · 01-26-2006, 06:42 PM

To The British - look at Blake's picture above. Now imagine him bald and saying 'Yeah I know'. Am I right or am I right?PS Keep voting and telling me, in great detail, what you would do different.

PPS Time machine? This is a realistic scientific survey!

**Maria** · 01-26-2006, 06:59 PM

27 views and 6 votes. I am not happy.

**hcjilson** · 01-26-2006, 07:14 PM

Get over it my dear.......some of us just found it. Anything to make you happy!

I was dismayed to see I am the only one(to date) who would do it all over. I'd have a hell of a lot more fun the second time and if you couple that with the fun I've had so far.......a human being doesn't deserve anything that good.

**drk** · 01-26-2006, 07:17 PM

I would love to re-live some of the good times of my life:
Family before "the divorce"...
Grandparents and great grandparents (even great-great) would have a lot of stories to tell...
I'd be nicer to everyone in high school, and play football...

**Maria** · 01-26-2006, 07:38 PM

Why would you be nicer to people in high school? Was Carrie White a classmate? Seriously, why? I'm interested to know!

**drk** · 01-26-2006, 07:41 PM

Who's Carrie...oh, Pig's blood!

No, not that bad. I was rather concerned about maintaining my perch as an "A-lister" and I had to be sure that I dated the "right people" as opposed to who I'd go out with now...

**Maria** · 01-26-2006, 07:44 PM

That's so sweet, now you wish you'd gone out with the unpopular one that smelt funny. RRRRRRREEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYY?

**drk** · 01-26-2006, 07:47 PM

I wouldn't go THAT far...just the ones with the good personalities!

**Lynne** · 01-26-2006, 07:49 PM

Hard to decide between education and spending more time with family members, but if I had had more education maybe I'd be retired by now, and have the time and money to connect now, before its too late. As it is, my relatives are over two oceans away (Pacific and Atlantic), and I can only afford to go home every few years. Would have stayed in school longer, kept at my first profession (nurse/midwife), stayed away from most of the old boyfriends, but still have married the same man. As it is, St. Paul said learn to be content in whatsoever condition or situation you find yourself in - so I am happy and content! Besides, who would REALY like to go through childhood and adolescence again.....:)

**drk** · 01-26-2006, 07:51 PM

I'd bet living in Hawaii is not one thing you'd take back, Lynne...

**Lynne** · 01-26-2006, 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by drk

I'd bet living in Hawaii is not one thing you'd take back, Lynne...

You won that bet!! :cheers:

**Lab Rat** · 01-26-2006, 08:23 PM

i would not change a single thing in my past....every decision, whether it was "right or wrong" at the time has brought me to this place and time in my life....and aside from having a wonderful wife....most agree with my assesment that "my life is a fairytale" 95% of the time....i would not change a thing from the past for fear of changing anything in my present.

**Maria** · 01-26-2006, 08:28 PM

But you would still have the knowledge that you have now, so you could find your wife and still marry her. Anyway, this theory supposes you have already woken up as the newborn baby you, would you really do every single thing the same, knowing what you know now?

**hcjilson** · 01-26-2006, 10:21 PM

You've made me rethink this. I HATE it when that happens. In the retrospective glance, perhaps I would change some things! The things that are particularly sad or tragic, We've all got things like that in our past and I suppose, given the opportunity, I would change those things, but my origianal premise is that all life's experiences have molded you into the person you are. I like the person I am. I wouldn't want to change that so I'm back to where I started. It was a good trip though!

I told you folks you would enjoy having Maria back! :):)

**Cindy Hamlin** · 01-26-2006, 10:29 PM

I would redo some of the major bad choices I made. That would give me a 50/50 chance of correcting it, huh?

P.S. Maria I missed you very much!

**mlm** · 01-27-2006, 01:00 AM

I voted for the education one. Mainly because I spent 5 years in university, studying a subject that I thought I loved but didn't get me any closer to my goals. However, as it is now, I'm still not a university grad, but I've managed to acheive my goals anyway. :)

**fvc2020** · 01-27-2006, 11:49 AM

I voted to spend more time with the family members I miss the most. If I had a second choice, I would only change minor things like, taking up softball in my teens, becoming a true Christian sooner. The mistakes I have made, have made me the woman I am, so I'm not sure I'd want to change those

Christina

**Happylady** · 09-18-2009, 11:50 AM

The poll really needs to be muliple choice because I think I would do several.

There is a book I love that is almost about this same idea. It's called Replay by Ken Grimwood and was published in 1986. It's still in print. In it a man dies in his 40's and finds himself 18 again and in college but with all his memories intact. He lives his life (well a different life) over again and when he dies in his 40's he again finds himself back in college. This happens over and over.

As he goes through these cycles he changes things up everytime and every life is different.

I thought it was fascinating. I recommended it to several other people and they all enjoyed it, too. :)