Say you had a time-turner and could change something in the past, whether it be in your life, in the world or anything else what would it be ?

This is all about memories and regrets.....

Sorry if one of these has already started

hey I_LOVE_RON, i've seen you started your own topic..

well, there's a huge list of things that i have regreted
nothing huge, but small things here are there

probably one of the things that i've regretted most of all is not being more involved in my middle and elementary school, i wish i joined more clubs ran for a position on student council, and so forth. so my goal for the upcoming year is to try to be more involved

in 6th grade, i was really mean to her because she would always follow me and i made her cry and do things for me and i was so happy when she transferred to another school, but now i regret it... she probably was one of my only friends that tried so hard to be my friend, not the other way around... i miss her, but i'm probably not going to see her again

but if i had a time-turner i wouldn't use it wisely, so sometimes i'm glad that i can't go back in time

Ooh, a deep one....

You know, I could say that there were many things I would change if I could....but I honestly don't think I would.

We're all the products of our experiences - good and bad, successes and mistakes. I wouldn't be the person I am today if I hadn't made mistakes and learned from them. It's how we grow.

Everything happens for a reason, I'm a great believer in that. The biggest regret of all to have is to regrets.... It's a waste of energy. Gotta keep looking forward, it's the only way to go.

I've thought of that before and it's a difficult one.

I think I'd change things, that I'd still be good friends with an ex-friend of mine..

Aaah..... interesting question indeed...

I'm almost sure this has been used in one of the final question to choose Miss Universe/Miss World (not sure which one, but definately a beauty pageant) some years back...

Among the five finalist, one of them answer exactly what she wishes to change, and the other three answered something in the between... the crown goes to the one who answered exactly as what Dana had said...

And I've been thinking about what she said ever since... about how we are the product of our experience. Experience are indeed the best teacher of live...

Everything happens for a reason... yeah, absolutely agreed on that... when you're 25 and you looked back at how you've spend your life... you should know how you want to spend the next 25 of it... so, when you're 50, you'd know you've at least spend half of it as best as you can...

Regret is good, as long as it makes you to realise not to repeat the mistake again and then, with that perfectly engraved in your book of life you look forward and keep moving on...

Everyone's so deep!

That's so cool, because when we (my friends and i) were discussing this topic one of them was like, i wish i didn't pop that zit so i wouldn't have this scar! I'm glad some people look beyond this question

hmm, this is pretty deep, isn't it.

I get what y'all are getting at with the concept of we are what our experiences make us but if I was given an opportunity to change something about my life I don't think that I would have the self control to pass it up.

If I was given this oppurtunity I would want the fact that someone who loved me very much died, I have a particular person in mind and would love to see that person alive and well. I would choose this because I believe that changing this would have a more positive affect on my life than a negative affect.

Not telling someone how I really feel. I felt so much for this person, and we were always embarassed around each other when we were sort of going out (don't ask how you can "sort of be going out, but-believe me- you can). But I knew how he felt, because I felt it too. I haven't seen him for a year and a half, but have talked to him on the phone lately and I still have deep feelings for him. I think about him every day and hope we can see each other again soon, hopefully this summer-maybe sooner.
So that's my regret, not my only regret, but definitely the biggest one. I wish I would have told him exactly how I felt.

for me it is soooooo simple!
Last year I found out my best friend cutted herself and I did not tell anyone. And she just kept right on with it for more then a year. If i told someone she wouldn't have done it so long, she wouldn't have been depressive so long, and I wouldn't have been depressive.

^^Actually, I have a friend like that right now...at least, I'm very suspicious that she's doing it (again)...does anyone have any ideas how I can help her???

Omg...suicide...I hadn't even thought of that...I don't think she'd be the type but still....

if i had a time turner i would change many things like when i was in fifth grade my teacher was the meanest and always yelled an hated me if i had a time turner i would never ever even dream of joining that school and if i knew my own best frined would join the other kids and make fun of me with her other friends. I would change it all.

Thread Revival!

Well, there's alot of things that I wish I could've done differently, but now that I think about it, I've come so far in life. I've learned from my mistakes, and although at a present time I may wish to change something, I know that if I look back at it, I'll appreciate having learned from my mistakes.

there are so many things! but there is this one thing which changed 3 years of my life....if i only could....

There are so many things I've done wrong, or messed up that I wish I could do over, but there is only one thing I would really change if I could.

A couple of weeks ago, two of my friends (one lived right next to me, and the other lived a neighborhood down) went canoing on a cold, Sunday afternoon. The water was freezing, but they still went. That night, they still hadn't come home, so the police were eveywhere, and searching the waters. Their bodies were found 6 days later, and by then everyone pretty much knew, but it was still a hard hit.

It was really tough on everyone, and I miss them both soo much. I'd never thought I'd miss anyone so much. If I had a time turner, or a spell to make me go back in time, that's what I would have used it for.

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Anjali

Nothing. I enjoy life - and wouldn't change anything in it for the world.

if i could change one thing..i would make my real dad come back to life. my mum has kept him alive in my mind telling me stories about him but it scares me that i am starting to forget him a little bit... but i just want to talk to him once now to know if he is proud of me...i know that if he didnt die i wouldnt have the person in ,my life that i love more then anything in the whole world - my brother because he is my mother and step fathers son...but if i could bring him back but change nothing that has happend i would!

I don't know if I would change anything, because my past has shaped the person I am and I like me how I am.
I kind of wish i had spent at least a little bit of my life without everything I have. Everything in my life has been handed to me, just because my parents are rich so I go to a great school and I'm lucky that I'm naturally clever and good at sport so I do well. Also i have been a bit of a spoilt idiot at times so i'd like to have known what it's like to be unpopular so I understand what it's like and can benicer to losers.

i regret loads . . . from things such as telling a teacher something to letting something out . . .

i would probably go back and erase loads but sloppyjoe, i agree with you. the pasts shapes you into the person you are . . . so now i'll have to think about this again!

Well, maybe i will go back and change something. I would change the moments when i was angry and shouted on the ones i really trully love, because you don`t earn anything by shouting or yelling, just regrets afterwards...

ohh well iv'e messed up so much in my life but i guess i wouldn't change very much of it cuz it all has made me the person i am right now
but if i could change one thing is not being open with many of the people in my life expecially a friend who has now pass away i can't tell him what he meant to me or actually means to me i can't even remember what was the last thing i said to him so i would change that i would tell people how much they mean to me

We all have regrets or mistakes...I should know,I have numerous things I would change in my life if I could.The one main thing I would change would be moving and changing schools so quickly(1 day notice) without saying good-bye to many of my friends who I still havent said good-bye to .But in the end our mistakes and regrets make us who we are today and without those who would we be...

id change the fact that i smoke, and drink..it has altered the way i look a bit..eyebags and whatnot..LOLOLO...i was loking at some younger photos the other day and i thougth to myself "what hte heck happened to you dude!?"

There are different things I regret. I regret saying some things to girls that I liked, then there's the big one...I really wish I could change my work ethic in school. I'm a 3.0 student it's good, but I can do a heck of a lot better.

i could change one thing about my life is would deffiantly be my shyness. Because of it there ere so many oppurtunities that i have missed...

I really want to be tall. Not extremly tall but at least 5'7 or 5'8 . I would also like to have perfect vision as my vision is starting to fail me.
I would also really want a real brain for a change

man their hav been so many things i wish i culd take bak.. losing my dad, and losing just about a week ago a best friend, she meant alot to me, and we hooked up on new years and now she hates me and wnats me out of her life, apparently i took advantage of her.. i dunno, but i regret it anyway

If I could change one thing it would be the recent deaths in my community.

Two 17 tear old boys, one 16 year old, and one 68 year old woman were killed in a horrible car accident on January 10. They were killed on impact. Its one of the toughest things this community is going through because everyone knew someone, I mean everyone. Personally I have 5 different connections, one being my very close friends older brother. Sometimes I wish I could just have said, dont get in your car, just dont do it, walk home today, take the bus, just dont get in your car.

I wouldn't change anything in my past... I'm not saying that I have a perfect life, I have had a lot of terrible things happen... I just think that everything has a purpose and that you should just keep going and forget your past but remember the lessons... you can only change the future...

well i wouldn't change anything actually hahaha because we learn from our mistakes and that's it

but i do admit that there are certain aspects of my life i would change like for instance

i wish i could recover all the the time that i've waisted on useless activities (haha and believe that it's alot of time) and do something productive with it

but like i said above, we make mistakes so we can learn from them

Wow, i wish i could change everything, i wish i could change world hunger or change deaths. But other than that, i guess i wouldn;t change anything in my life, cause thats' what makes me; well me. I mean, yeah, i've done heaps of stupid things, but i guess thats' part of growing up.

i wish i could change the fact that people lie! i hate liars! i'm sick of hearing lies people! i would make it so that everyone would tell the truth no matter if it's hurtful! because when you discover that people have been lieing it hurts more than the truth!

I don't think I would change anything, mistakes are how we grow. I wouldn't want to change something small and trivial, just to change it, it's all or nothing, because one thing will affect another, and another, and so on.

Perhaps I would change that B I got on my math test last week to an A, but that's about it.

Well I don't like to say I have regrets in life, but if I could change something in my life, I know just what it would be. It's a little personal but I'll share it anyways with all you wonderful people. It's a relationship thing . I had been dating somebody for a year and a half when I got sick and tired of all the fighting and I decided to call it quits. We had had a mutual understanding that it was basically just a break, although probably a long one, and that eventually we'd come back together, but he had told me if I dated anybody else in the mean time he would be able to go back with me after the thought of it. Well, I didn't believe him, and I dated somebody else for basically 2 months, just something short and meaningless. Sad to say, the boy I really loved stood by his word and didn't come back. So if I could change one thing it would have been to stay away from the boy I only dated for a couple months because in the end it meant nothing.

Like I said though, I don't have regrets so that's not something I think about always and regret it, but if I could change it I wouldn't have done what I did. But hey we live and learn right! And I'm perfectly fine in my life right now.

I wouldn't change anthing in my life. I have made mistakes, but the weren't life changeing. I love my life.

I have a question - If you could change your gender, what difference would it make in your life?

I am a female and I was born in a time when women were deemed to be only relevant for marriage and producing children. They were never expected to get an education or expand their minds at all. So I followed what we set out for me and I accepted it begrudgingly to an extent.

I grew up believing I was thick as two planks. I didn't have an education therefore I was uneducated. WRONG. I have spent the last 15 years trying to prove to myself that I am intellegent and worthy of being deemed capable of knowing right from wrong.

So my question to you is - if you could change your gender, what difference would it make to your life.

mrs hagrid

If I could change my gender (im a girl) I would be able to see what guys think. Very fascinating. Who likes who and why guys act the way we do. I mean who wouldnt want to knwo what the opposite sex thinks!?

But If I could change anything I would change the fact that I have glasses. I hate them! People treat me like a geek. They call me 'the smart girl'. Hate it

I would never have gone to the nurse in seventh grade. I should have just took that math test that i didn't study for.

my entire life would be different. I might not even be obsessed with HP

Quite some time ago now I did a most unforgettable, unforgivable deed. And to this day I haven’t forgiven myself and I know in my heart that I never will. The deed had shocked me so much that afterwards I ran out of the room and locked myself in the bathroom because I couldn’t believe want I had done. I am so ashamed and I regret it so much that I don’t want to say what it was but if I could change one thing in my life, go back to, then it would be to go back to that day.

Well, I recently graduated from university with my first degree. I am going to grad school for my Master's degree. Being a student for the last four years, I would like to change how poor I am. All my money goes to paying for school. I wouldn't mind being having some more money. Still, that is not a very bad want. I have a good life.

What would I change? Ha, ha, let's laugh out loud all together. I'd change life itself! Who wouldn't? Even if I had the repay to some broken nose, bleeding and isolation. There'll be some true life afterwards.

if I could change one thing, it would be the incredibly stupid mistake I made last summer. At the time I coudn't see how big an impact it would have on my life even though I suspected that it would bother me for a long time. My family and friends were happy I made this decision but in the end I am more depressed than I have been in my life. I would go back and change what I did and never make that decision for anyone or anything again. I made this mistake once before, I should have learned then.

If it's what I think it is, Charlie (based on our conversations), then yeah, I did the same thing, more than once! And I can only be very happy for you that you learned such a hard lesson so young. I know that sounds like I wish your unhappiness, but that isn't so at all. It only means that you can move on with your life now, determined never to sell yourself short again to try to make someone else happy--and since you are young, it will save you further heartbreak down the road. A person has to put themselves first--as the Buddha said, "Half your time for others, the other half for you!" That means your own welfare should be tended to first and foremost. Only when you are cared for (by you!) can you truly take care of others.

*Jumps off soapbox and into the fray*

OK. What is the single thing I would change about my life? I would not have listened to all the naysayers of my youth who said, in answer to anything I wanted to do that wasn't what they wanted for me--"Oh, you shouldn't do that, it's destined to fail." What a load of pooey to believe. None of it was true. The fact that they were older didn't make them experts. So when my son wanted to leave Engineering for Acting, I told him to go for it. His father said "You'll starve." I said, "Your father works in a factory--what advice can he offer about the world of theatre when he has zero experience? Don't believe him. Follow your passion."

My son is in acting. He loves it.

As I've read over there, I wouldn't change pretty much of my life because, first, you learn from your mistakes ... except that I usually don't, and second, because the things that I don't like in my life aren't my fault, so I couldn't go backwards in time and change them.
But I'd change the fact that I'm a very closed person even when it doesn't look so, I'd change the fact that I was a weepy and weirdo girl when little and so I had bad times at school, which made me tougher outside but also unconfident; but I've learnt that despite that had bad consequences, it also had good ones; I'd have changed the fact that I experienced not so nice in the end friendships, but that made me appreciate good friendships, even when it's not as I'd liked to; I would have researched more and went to England or the United States to finish high school with a scholarship when I had the chance, but I would have missed my graduation, and the friendship I've got; so ... I'm curious about the life I'd have nowadays if everything had come up as I wanted to, but bad things have thought me certain things.
Now, I'd change the fact that I'm still single, and that's definitely something that hasn't taught me anything

I wouldn't change anything. I've made plenty of mistakes, many that I'm not happy about, but they made me who I am today. Without those mistakes, I wouldn't have learned how to fix it or how to be a better person. I've had some many regrets, but I don't let them get to me now. Usually, I try to avoid them because they make me feel bad, but I wouldn't change them for the reason I said before.

~jenny

I'd save my mother from dying. If she would just have been here now, everything would have been so much better. She died when I was seven, almost eight, and it could have been prevented. When the pillar of your family dies, everything falls apart...

I'm so sorry about your mom Weaxzezz.

Personally, I wouldn't change anything. There has been hardship in my life, but without it, I wouldn't be the person I am now, and I like how I turned out. But if I really had to change one thing it would be... my confidence/self esteme. I would like to be more self assured around people.

I'd bring back my Dad. He died last year, and it killed me inside. Since then, I've made stupid mistakes, done crappy things, and kind of shut down a bit?
It's insanely hard to go on without him. He was my inspiration and my biggest cheerleader. I miss him every day, but I know that I can live without him, so long as I remain strong.

Other then that... I honestly believe in No Regrets. If Dad were here, I wouldn't change anything at all. Everyone (all of my friends) think I would go back and not date my last boyfriend (He was a lying, cheating jerk, basically), but I wouldn't. Knowing him, falling in Love with him, made me who I am today. It made me stronger knowing I could leave someone who cheated, no matter how much I cared about them.



That song [Breathe-Taylor Swift] fits how I feel perfectly. Actually, for both my Dad and him, although Daddy was way more important to me. )':

So, I'd bring back my Dad. In a roundabout way, that was what this post meant. d: