Ok, if you had to do it over what would you change? What would you like to tell your younger self.
If I had to change something I'd have gone to school somewhere totally different, I love my college friends, but I know if I had gone somewhere else I'd have friends from there that I loved. I don't regret my choice just would love to know what else life could have been ...
I'd tell my younger self to just be me. To not care what others think and to be true to myself ... I am so much happier doing that now!
I wish I would have had someone who could've given me really good advice about swimming and college, etc. I was the first one in my family to finish college, so my parents weren't too helpful- they didn't know how. Swim coaches weren't helpful either, they just asked me where I was going!
I definitely should have chosen a different school that didn't cut the program! I know of a lot of people that swam really fast in college- I'll never know what I could have done. Also, without swimming during college I don't think I did as well as I could have academically.
That's really my only regret. All of my other bad decisions were OK- I don't wish I could change them.
Yes, I agree!..
I'd definately tell myself to relax and not worry about what others think so much.. something I'm still working on of course...:eek:
Other than that, I think every experience I've had has made me who I am now, so It's hard to say if my perspective would be better, worse, or just different had I changed something earlier in my life.
Take that extra half stroke at the finish in the 100 *** at the 1993 long course nationals.
I would have gone to Japan that summer.
Yep. That's about it.
Originally posted by Jeff Commings
Take that extra half stroke at the finish in the 100 *** at the 1993 long course nationals.
I would have gone to Japan that summer.
Yep. That's about it.
D'OH!!!!!!!!!
When I was diving, I missed the CT state finals round by less than a point.. not quite the same, but I can grasp at how frustrating it can be to get so close to a goal and miss it by just a hair!... I'd rather have ended last!
Wow...what a question. How much time do ya have??
I would not have married so young. I would have studied harder and gone to medical school. I would have stuck with AAU swimming. I wouldn't have sacrificed my dignity by calling that guy...just one more time...just in case he lost my number....
I would have flossed more. I would not have opened all those soda bottles with my teeth (and cracking my teeth and having to have a root canal....)
Oh...and a plethora of other stuff I can't post here!
If I could tell my younger self something, it would be to leave my former Age group club at my junior year of high school because your age group will ruin your swimming. Also, concentrate on the fly and IM events and don't swim the frees at taper meets. Finally, tell my younger self to not lift until you go to college and at college, don't lift more repts and less weight. Also, don't do high school swimming because your best events(200 fly and 400 IM) aren't high school events.
I could go on all day with this thread but I won't. Really good topic.
I would have listened to my parole officer and not skipped town ... jail is a rough place ... kidding ...
I would have explained to my coaches that I really was in pain with my back before I broke and destroyed it instead of taking so much advil and aleve it's amazing I didn't have liver failure and "sucking it up"
