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!
Former Member
I would have not stopped swimming when I did. I would have kept going. I could be so much farther along then I am now.
And I think I would have gone to the back of the line at the Swim with the Stars, so that I wouldn't have people behind me and I could have spent more time picking their brains. (*sigh* and talking to Michael) :D
in _____ i wish woulda _____:
1980 learned to dolphin kick in streamline position and gotten awesome at it
1981 had another year to train and improve before I went to college
1982 never hurt my back in the summer of 1982
1984 made and competed in olympic trials
(I made cuts in july 1984, like a month after trials was over)
1985 got to compete in NCAA's
(i made cuts but didn't get to swim in the meet)
1986 owned microsoft stock (and never sold)
1990 owed dell stock and never sold
early 1990s owned every .com name I could think of
a friend of mine owned house.com till recently
I know someone else who owned flowers.com
learned to speak spanish
learned to play a guitar and piano
there's many more
ande
Would not have wasted so many Saturday mornings during high school with my clubs three hours practices that started at 7am and always leave early during my summer long course training. If I did it, I would have swam just as fast or faster because I would be well rested.
Would have went to my high school Athletic Director when I didn't get to be captain of my high school team and I was the only senior on the team. Plus, there was no real vote for it since I wasn't at the high practice since it was once a week and it was insane to get to this pool. I would tell myself not to take alot of the crap that I took from the world around me.
I would not have quit swimming in my junior year of college, after a great summer working out at the Dad's Club in Houston (with Robbie Orr as coach). But I was premed and taking a heavy load that semester, including organic chemistry. Perhaps I should have been an English major, or maybe marine biology (except for the fact that I get seasick).
If I had to do it all over. I would like almost everything the same. Like in the movie.... Play it again Sam. The only thing I would like is to have me start over again at a younger age and do it again.
George
I would've used more brains and less guts when I seriously hurt my lower back early last year doing heavy deadlifts due to bad form. It was the most dreadful feeling after the last deadlift set when I thought I wouldn't be able to walk. I could not sit, stand, walk for longer than 10 minutes and lying down was the only comfortable position. I had 6 weeks of back rehabilitation.
I couldn't do ANY exercise and so my rehab doc later recommended swimming and that's how I got into it. My back is all well now - but I continue to swim - more regularly in fact, so I guess I fell in love with it. I guess I agree with Stephanie about things happening for a reason.
Originally posted by ande
i wish woulda _____:
learned to speak spanish
learned to play a guitar and piano
there's many more
ande
Ande,
Why can't you still learn to: speak Spanish, and play the piano and guitar?
It's never too late to pick up something new. :)
I wouldn't have changed anything.
Yup. Nothing.
My grandfather told me once that life isn't about getting the best place in line for Heaven, nor is it about winning.
He told me you have to focus on the race, and not look back on what you might have done "if". Everything in your life happens for a reason. The bad stuff, that so many of us wish we could have the chance to change, is actually things we learned from, and were better as a result of. The hard stuff, that we wish hadn't happened, and isn't fair, are all things that led us to right where we are today. Changing any of that might set off a doppler effect, eventually changing the whole course of our lives. 50-50 chance it would be better or worse.
So I think I'll take everything that happens in my life with a side order of lesson attached. The good things, I'll enjoy, and the bad things, I'll learn from, and hopefully not do again. :rolleyes:
That would be good.
