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!
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I would have told my Mom and Dad I loved them one more time....
Been wanting to post this ...
If I Had It To Do Over Again. A letter from an 83 year old dying man
I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax. I would limber up. I would be crazier than I've been on this trip. I know very few things 1 would take seriously anymore. I would take more chances. I would take more trips. I would scale more mountains. I would swim more rivers and I would watch more sunsets. I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones. You see, I was one of those people who lived prophylactically, sensibly, and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had it to do over again, I would have many more of them. In fact, I would try not to have anything else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of my day. I have been one of those people who never went anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat, a parachute. If I had it to do over again, I would travel lighter, much lighter than I have. I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and I would stay that way later in the fall. I would ride more merry-go-rounds, catch more fish, pick more flowers and dance more often if I had it to do all over again.
Originally posted by ande
learned to play a guitar ....
ande
This one isn't too out of reach, but you do have to have some time on your hands or else it's easy to put down. Buy yourself a $100 acoustic and a digital string tuner ($25 or so). Once you know the chords of G, A, C, D, E and slight variations of those (Em, Am, etc), you can play 80% of all music out there. I still can't shape an F or B worth a darn though. :( It took me about a month to learn the basic chords and be able to shift between them. The guitar is very rewarding to learn. An electric guitar is even easier, especially if you're playing rock with a lot of reverb. A lot of chords can be played with only two strings!
Sorry to hear about your wife's brain tumor. I have a friend with a tumor. Every year we do a Walk/Run for brain tumor research. You should come down next year.It is a very moving day.
www.curebraintumors.org
Swimmy :)
Originally posted by ande
in _____ i wish woulda _____:
learned to speak spanish
learned to play a guitar and piano
ande
Spanish is not that difficult, even a person like me (not so bright) can learn it easily.
Although that may be because I practice it since I was one y.o.:D
Piano instead is not that easy as my younger son is practicing one hour a day and still not sounding much as music, of course he is only five y.o. and has been only three months since he started.:p
1) I would have ditched my first girlfriend a lot sooner. She was sweet, but we were going nowhere and I just couldn't break it off.
2) I wouldn't have fallen down the stairs and busted up my back. Of course, if I hadn't, I never would have learned how to swim.
3) Microsoft, Oracle and Dell stock. By the boatload.
4) I would have realized much sooner that my wife's behavioral changes were due to a tumor in her head. Also, I would have wheedled, begged and pleaded to have a kid in the first year of our marriage instead of waiting and then finding that the tumor precluded kids.
5) I wouldn't have been achemistry/music double major in college - I should have been a math/music double major. No long afternoons in the lab when I could have been out running/racewalking or X-C skiing.
"If the wheel was rigged,
I'd still take the chance
and if we're walking on thin ice,
we might as well dance."
-LBJ
I agree with what you said in theory Steph. If I had the chance I probably wouldn't actually change anything because I wouldn't be whom I am today or where I am today. I just started this thread for a bit humor and as a chance to dispense some advice, reminisce (sp?), and be silly.
I have a great article on this I must include ... I'll have to see if I can find it ...
I am glad that your wife's tumor is not life threatening. Good luck on her recovery. Think about coming to the walk in DC next year. She might want to meet other survivors.It is a beautiful walk right by the Capitol building.
Swimmy :)
I met a man yesterday who had brain cancer, He told me he had 35 treatments, he went blind and deaf for over a year. But was has been back to normal for several years, he was out working in his yard. He said that everyone had given up all hope, but he and his wife had not.
George
