A Lot of Things Different
 

I am in a nostalgic mood tonight... main catalyst being that I received an email several days ago... from a very dear friend... a man that I was best friends with from the time I was in the 4th grade until after highschool. A combination of that email, the long chat we are having online this evening... and the song (the title of the thread) has got me thinking about the what if's in life..


do you have anything you would have done differently?

Knowing what I know now...only nearly everything I've ever done, would I do differently...but if I did, what would I be now?

As much as I would like to, proabaly not. It might mean not having and knowing the friends and loves I have now.

No, My life isn't perfect, but its good, and I am very happy with it. THere are things I regret, but I learned from them. I wouldn't change anything.

I would change a lot....I'd make different, better choices..things that I'm starting to do NOW.

I'd think different and I'd probably behave different. (I happen to LIKE this me, and I'd stop hiding it from everyone else...my mom knows it's in there but I'm fairly sure the rest of the world has no idea who the REAL ME is.)


Oh, and I'd stop being embarrassed about who I am too. :)

p.s. that is INCREDIBLY cool those of you who say you're happy right where you are.

Wow!


I can't imagine that sense of contentment..and I envy you. :)

Did I say I was happy with where I am? Nah, in the words of Steve Earle, I ain't ever satisfied...

It's not that I'm specially happy, just afraid of who and what I'd

be if anything had been changed.

Afterwards it is always easy to say what to have done differently. I would have banned my wife out of my life.:mad:

Well Jenna as I am quite possitive I am the one that got away lets not look at all the what ifs in our past we both made mistakes. Lets look instead to the what will be's of the future....By the way this is Richard ie..... fourth grade crush ;)

Wouldn't change a thing. not even my first marriage...if it hadn't been for the path I've trod getting here, I wouldn't have learned the lessons that made me what I am today.

If one removes the blocks that built ones self, rumble will be all that remains. - Charles McCrain

I have to agree with Nuelaan!Thinking back;all of the things;that you didn't enjoy then or regretted;were actually fun and part of the learning process.All in all;I'm fairly happy;with how things have turned out!Life has had;MANY rough spots;but it's how you handled(sp) them that counts! Irish
P.S.Sometime;think back;to the people voted;Most Likely to Succeed;in High School.MOST of them are failures now.Look at the people;most likely to fail(Me).The results are different;when you have to do things yourself;and not handled by rich parents!

I wouldn't change any of the big things, but I would have said yes (to myself and to opportunities) a bit more then I did .... would like to have been a little less concerned about what other people think and a bit more concerned with who I want to become.

I think there are things things that I would want to change but I am not sure that I would given the consequenses it would ultimately have...

I have never been one that handles the what if's well. Even tho I have a strong belief in everything happens for a reason... and I believe that some prayers are better left unanswered..

I guess that whenever a time machine is finally invented... the line with be DAMN long... LOL.. and since I hate long lines.. I would probably pass. ;)


On a personal note.... yes bigmack... you are the catalyst of my nostalgia.. I knew that exposing you to me here.. would show you all that I have become.. possibly more than you could possibly ever know... maybe more than you could have imagined... maybe with a little disappointment..

no more what if's.. for those will never be.. but we have no way of knowing the future so atleast I have to look forward to whatever that is meant to be........... and like you said last night.. atleast you can brag that you were the first to see my boobs. LOL

Sooooooo bigmack really IS er...was someone in your life?

Cool beans. :D



And welcome to Pixies bigmack. :)

oh yeah.. he most certainly was... and is.. again.. after a long absense.. tho I knew he was always out there somewhere... and would turn up again...

I figured that.... after so long... the best way to expose him to who I have become... was to send him here...

I thought that a BigMac was:Two all beef patties.special sauce,
lettuce,cheese,pickles,onions on a sesame seed bun!I may have left something out.As I get older;my memory;fails me.Welcome;
BigMac. Irish

Irish, LMAO. Came in late and thought what's this about McDonalds?

If I could go back and do one thing differently. I would choose to spend the last day my father was in town with him instead of going off with the boyfriend of the time. After that day, the next time I would see my father would be when he was in a comma that he never came out of.

Other than that I wouldn't dare do a thing differently. I am truly thankful for the person I have become.
-Summer :D

Okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.........Lets get Naaked. Partyyyyyyyyyyy

I'm quite young to have regrets and perhaps this is the arrogance of youth speaking, but when I was about 19 I decided to try to live my life by one rule:

Think carefully about everything that you do and regret nothing.

The thinking behind this came from the fact that you can only make a decision based on the knowledge and experience you have at the time and regret (like guilt) is a wasted emotion.

I figured I'll be happy if I can look back on my life and think to myself 'I did what I thought was right at the time.' You can't ask for more than that. So far this has worked out pretty well for me, and while my life has not been plain sailing, the adversity just serves to make enjoy the good times even more. After all, I'm a damn sight luckier than 95% of the world . . .