If I had my life to live over again, I would...

[David O]

If I had my life to live over again, I would....

1) Have more real troubles and less imaginary ones

2) Make more mistakes and not have such a fetish about being right all the time

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8)

Everyone add your one-liner till we reach 100: this should be eye-opening.

[Jetliner]

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[Calla]

4) never have a relationship

[David O]

6) Cry and laugh less at the movies and more in real life

7) Worry less about my house being clean and more about my children being loved and adored

[Calla]

Hey where's number 5!!!??

8)never gone into my career path and worked with animals

Oh I see now...jetliner edited and threw me out of sync!!!

[IrmaJean]

9)Have expressed to my mother how much I loved and appreciated her before she passed away

[David O]

I thot you'd forgotten to count or your alphabet Calla!! :) ooops, mea culpa, mea culp!

10) Chosen some of my friends in the past based and who and what they are and less on what they have

11) Told my children i loved them every day until they said: Dad, please don't love me so much!" (and now I'm choking up)

[IrmaJean]

This is easy for me....

12)Been less afraid to take chances in life

13)Spoken up to H about his problem many years earlier

[Calla]

n) learn to count

14) discovered exercise at an earlier age. Running saves me many times

(just a guess but this is going to go well beyond 100!)

[LaLa]

15) begun psychotherapy at least 3 years before I really did!

[Symora]

16) acknowledged my needs and loved myself more...

[Newmommy]

17) Not worry or care so much about what other people think of me

18) Taken the high road with the small stuff and not try to prove my point so much or get revenge

[JaneE]

(19) Had been less timid, less afraid. Realized that people are basically GOOD.

[Aaron.X.C]

20) Hmm... should have listened to my parents and my early on teachers and acknowledged lying is bad. I'm just now learning that what a laugh, and idiot I truly am.

[Calla]

21)changed my name legally to Strawberry.

22)not allow my first relationship to ruin others.

[Lindamomof7]

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[IrmaJean]

25) Learned how to be assertive

[malign]

26) Learned earlier that it's not how many answers I ever acquired, but how often I visit that place inside me that already knows (and no longer needs) them all.

[IrmaJean]

Nice to have you back, Mark.

[Guest GingerSnap]

27. I would live it just the same. If I changed some of the bad things in my life, it would effect the good things that came out of them. (like never meeting my 1st husband, I would not have my older son, etc.) I am living the plan that God had for my life.

[finding my way]

28) I would have continued struggling to learn piano or any instrument instead of giving up.

29) I would have stuck with dance, again, not giving up

30) spent more time in nature

31) paused more .... before opening my mouth:rolleyes:

To me these things aren't about chasing after perfection. I really don't believe in that. Just reflections on lessons learned.....

[IrmaJean]

I agree about the lessons learned. My number 9 is exactly why I always express feelings of affection and appreciation openly now.

[DahliMOMMA]

33) I would've made peace with myself sooner and been less hard on myself for being "emotional".EI...given my emotional abuser less power over my childhood.

34) I would have trusted to share my manic irritable behavior sooner, instead of hiding it...maybe getting BP diagnosed before 34!

[Nicolec]

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[Newmommy]

27. I would live it just the same. If I changed some of the bad things in my life, it would effect the good things that came out of them. (like never meeting my 1st husband, I would not have my older son, etc.) I am living the plan that God had for my life.

WOW, I love this. This just really helped me.