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[Prodigy]

IF you had the power to go back in time, what would you have changed in your life?


I would have changed quite a few things. First off I would have never quit guitar lessons, and I would listen to my parents and go to a great school in London and never move to Russia. You guys?

[link.the.first]

I would be careful about messing with the timeline. You tend to change things not just for yourself, but everyone who knew you and everyone who knew them. Plus, you never know if that's actually going to make things better for you. I'm happy in the present, but I wouldn't mind seeing a few things in the past... as long as I have an invisible and completely silent spaceship to fly around in to look at things.

[Athena]

I have been through some hard times, but I would not go back to change it. It has made me who I am today. We learn. There's this saying "what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger". Plus, if you have never been unhappy, how do you know what being happy really feels like? If you have never been ill, would you know the feeling you have just after recovering from your illness and feeling great again?

[Jeeves]

I agree with Blaat85, word for word.
Besides, there's the uncertainty, Chaos theory and the grandfather paradox. If I went back and stopped my girlfriend dying, how do I know something worse won't happen? Saving her may be leading to something else, and this may stop me from ever existing to go back and save her...), and timeloop (if it becomes possible in the future to travel back through time, my future self probably has, as will I in a loop forever, thus changes being made are my past already, and If I tried changing things they'd be the changes made already)
Dispite that, and answering your question, and making this a bit longer, <clears throat>, <procrastinates>, the one and only thing I'd change, is, saving my former girlfriends life.

Edited by Jeeves, 24 January 2006 - 12:52 PM.

[Ash]

Me? I'd not change a damn thing. Except maybe take a couple of the missed opportunities, talk to myself and give myself a bit of confidence. I wouldn't change masses of history, I'd just try and give myself some confidence. Mostly because I hate who I used to be.

That's why I hate photographs of myself, thinking about the past or anything like that.

I didn't exist before a year and a half ago. That's as easy as it is for me.

[Calamity_Jones]

we define ourselves through our experiences, we develop and mature through what we experience, if we were to change things, we simply wouldn't be who and what we are. If we feel down and shit, there's always that happiness to aim for again, and if we removed the bad experiences in our lives we wouldn't be able to put the good ones into perspective.

Edited by Calamity_Jones, 25 January 2006 - 10:25 AM.

[Jeeves]

I don't mind that. I'd rather be as I was; happy. Since JC died, I've only changed for the worse, a depressed obnoxious pessimistic bastard instead of a cheerful loving 'charming' british 'gentleman'
Hence, if I could change it, I would.

[Calamity_Jones]

As I said, "there's always that happiness to aim for again, and if we removed the bad experiences in our lives we wouldn't be able to put the good ones into perspective." I imagine you had great times with that former girlfriend, these current bad times will put that into perspective, and there is the chance to be cheery again, something to aim for. If you just wallow in the past you'll get nowhere. The past has happened, but you can still shape the future.

incidentally, I'm not one of these helpless optimists... It's good to have a balance of pessimism and optimism, too much of either is bad... (though I'm utterly determined to not be miserable..)

Edited by Calamity_Jones, 25 January 2006 - 04:52 PM.

[Jeeves]

You're right
I guess I must have been happy before I'd even met her, so happiness must exist without.
Its hard though, its taken months just to realize I'll never see her again

[Prodigy]

Losing someone you truly love is a terrible thing. Personaly I haven;t lost anything extremly precious to me, but I have quite a few friends who have...

Some went crazy, others fell in depression.

I know that I'm just 14 and that I haven't seen even a fraction of what you guys have seen but when someone close to me is in a state of depression, it makes me sad also...

[Tom]

Its quite natural. When you see someone suffering badly most people feel terrible.

As for changing time. I wouldn't change a thing. I'm here as i am now because of the choices i made, the rights and the wrongs. If i didn't choose those choices i wouldn't be who I am now, learning what i am now.