If you could start your adult life over what would you do different?
Would you live somewhere else?
Would you pursue a different career?
Would you act different than you did?
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If you could start your adult life over what would you do different?
Would you live somewhere else?
Would you pursue a different career?
Would you act different than you did?
Take care of my beat up body better after the wreck.
no.
no.
yes.
Would've never spent a single dollar not earmarked for bills, on anything other than gun-related items...
Would've had that discreet threesome I was offered and turned down, all out of a misguided sense of fidelity to an ex-fiance' who I thought things would eventually work out with.
And I would've started looking at med-school a lot sooner than now. I believed too much of the garbage my dad threw at me about how I'd never amount to anything. Proved him wrong, but I let it get into my head too much when I was younger.
However, if I'd lived my life differently I might not have met my wife, so I guess I better not retroactively change anything. :-)
You can't change the past. Everything you do is all part of the life experience. Besides if you had no regrets/brief moments of clarity/ near brushes with death, what lessons could you pass on to your kid[s]Quote:
Originally Posted by kuench
I usually don't waste my time with mental masturbation like this. I try to use my CPU cycles for stuff that matters today and tomorrow.
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Originally Posted by kuench
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Originally Posted by BigBear
Same here. I would've taken care of my joints better. Play less crazy sports in the past.
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Originally Posted by kuench
I'm pretty content, might have taken my full ride for baseball and see where that took me but I enjoy life now
If I could start over with the maturity I have now...I'd serve.
Though if starting over meant giving up my newborn son, I don't think I could do that.
Too many variables, for every bad decision you've made the resulting actions have probably done you more good (if you're here and not in prison I guess) like learning lessons and meeting people you never would have. I'll keep what I got, shitty days and all, live in the moment and build for the future.
Same here. Anyone know any Army/NG recruiters willing to work with a medical waiver case?Quote:
Originally Posted by kraven251
mid life crisis kicking in????Quote:
Originally Posted by kuench
I don't think I would change much of anything really. I have a lot to be thankful for.
Quoted for truth^Quote:
Originally Posted by jim
If you could start your adult life over what would you do different?
Became a better penny pincher
Would you live somewhere else?
Maybe somewhere south
Would you pursue a different career?
Yes, prob would've followed through with my first instinct
Would you act different than you did?
I wouldn't have been a bully (I really feel horrible for it)
Good question....Quote:
Originally Posted by kuench
Yes- I would slow down with my joining the Army and do the High School to flight school option instead of listening to a recruiter who only cares about numbers.
Due to being a pilot I think I would have to live somewhere else.
Kind of- I would be flying helos instead of 4 then out (barring any injury, which is mostly the reason I got out).
Probably not. [Beer]
Everybody can think of something they should have not done or could have done better. The true question is can you live happily with your decisions and if not how do you rectify your path in the future.
To answer this- yes! I try to live without regrets and learn from my past mistakes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rabid
I would change a few things... I would have played A LOT more football growing up and into highschool. I didn't realize my love for that game until way to late. I would have been a Marine, and gone to school after that. Other then those, I would have maybe changed a thing or too, but nothing big..Quote:
Originally Posted by kuench
haha nah the question was asked by one my friends the other day and it just kind of got me curious.Quote:
Originally Posted by rockhound
I appreciate everyone's responses it's interesting getting a glance at how people deal/have dealt with their past decisions.
As for myself I try to live in the moment and enjoy the present. I'd definitely choose a good career, and I would've graduated HS instead of getting my GED so I could enlist.
No regrets here. I've learned from a great deal of mistakes.
I wish I laid off the booze and drugs when I younger. The $$ spent on that if it was invested instead.....[facepalm]
Other than that, I figure that almost everything I did in my life lead me to my wife (we married in 2011 when I was 41yo) so I have no regrets. I do think "if I only did this or that..." sometimes but I always come back to the fact that I wouldn't have met the most wonderful woman in the world if I did things differently.
Very trueQuote:
Originally Posted by Cameron