What would you do?
Discussion
Great thread - unfortunately I don't agree you should necessary regret anything. The ups and downs of life make you who you are, and without them your life would have taken a different direction - you'd have seized opportunities or missed them, met different people and travelled to different places.
However, if I could do it all over again, I would have -
1. Spent more time getting to know my parents.
2. Not sold that St Albans apartment in 2004, not bought property in 2007.
3. Not met the ex I wasted eight years of my life with, only for her to cheat on me and run off with the little money I had.
4. Started working for myself sooner.
5. Cheated on my ex, and gone out with my current girlfriend sooner - I had the chance, but stood by my morals - what an idiot!
6. Started my prime business earlier - the guys who jumped-in now own property in ten markets, yachts, supercars, you name it...
ETA - 7. Not gone to University.
However, if I could do it all over again, I would have -
1. Spent more time getting to know my parents.
2. Not sold that St Albans apartment in 2004, not bought property in 2007.
3. Not met the ex I wasted eight years of my life with, only for her to cheat on me and run off with the little money I had.
4. Started working for myself sooner.
5. Cheated on my ex, and gone out with my current girlfriend sooner - I had the chance, but stood by my morals - what an idiot!
6. Started my prime business earlier - the guys who jumped-in now own property in ten markets, yachts, supercars, you name it...
ETA - 7. Not gone to University.
Edited by sa_20v on Thursday 2nd April 16:50
I'd go back to that promotion interview in 1994, and in response to the question;
"what could we do to improve equal opportunities in this organisation?" I would say
"Positive action programmes to recruit more under represented groups"
Instead of;
"well for a start we can get rid of all the senior management reserved parking, so that the people who park near the main doors are those who get here first in the morning".
Things were never the same again.
Edited by Brown and Boris on Thursday 2nd April 19:05
gone back to about 8 and spent my time doing stuff, like playing football rather than playing computer games all the time.
sticking at the stuff i actually did do like boxing, gymnastics and badmminton.
making more friends in secondary school and stop being so naive
oh and not getting THAT pissed on THAT night
sticking at the stuff i actually did do like boxing, gymnastics and badmminton.
making more friends in secondary school and stop being so naive
oh and not getting THAT pissed on THAT night
ds are ripping me off.
I have just lost my Dad but I have a fabulous family of my own. I would love to go and re-live my life from the beginning all over again, just to be with him again, but I would prefer to retain some memories of my current life so that I make the same decisions that led me to my wife, and subsequently my children.
Georgiegirl said:
I'd like to go back to when I was 15 - about the time I turned from a nice girl into the teenager from hell! I really regret what I put my parents through.
Don't worry - did the same thing (not the girl bit though). Ultimately it made my relationship with my parents stronger, but still feel guilty. 
I have few regrets in my life but I would wind the clock back to when I was 17 and do the following:
1) Keep playing the piano, guitar and drums.
2) Actually study & put some proper effort for my Highers instead of partying and playing carmageddon & quake.
3) Go on to do Medicine or product design instead of a Business degree.
4) Cut off all ties to my bitter, twisted, psychotic & outright dangerous father much, much sooner.
5) Don't take that flight home on the 13th October 2000.
6) Listen to my heart and ask out that stunning medical student who melted my cynical heart and inspired me to be a better man...I honestly think she was the "one".
7) Discover Piston heads sooner !
All in all I've made good and bad decisions in my life and its all helped shape me into the person I am today.
Great Post btw !
1) Keep playing the piano, guitar and drums.
2) Actually study & put some proper effort for my Highers instead of partying and playing carmageddon & quake.
3) Go on to do Medicine or product design instead of a Business degree.
4) Cut off all ties to my bitter, twisted, psychotic & outright dangerous father much, much sooner.
5) Don't take that flight home on the 13th October 2000.
6) Listen to my heart and ask out that stunning medical student who melted my cynical heart and inspired me to be a better man...I honestly think she was the "one".
7) Discover Piston heads sooner !
All in all I've made good and bad decisions in my life and its all helped shape me into the person I am today.
Great Post btw !
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