What would you do differently??

**Natjen26** · June 4th, 2009

What would you do differently if you had to start your life over, knowing what you know now?

For me it would be simple. I would finish university, so I would be freed of those terrible evening classes. I would study to be a History teacher, instead of this terrible Marketing degree that I'm not intending on using.

As for my relation I wouldn't change a thing.

I would appreciate my family more. Try to be more understanding and less stubborn. I wasted many years with my mom, because we were both too stubborn to apoligise.

That would be about it, but hey I'm only 25.

**Cowboy** · June 4th, 2009

I would probably do everything just the same, but it would be nice to not make some of the mistakes that I did. Oh yeah, and I would never wear that USA sweat outfit back in 1981 to school. You see kids, back then, not all sweat pants had ties in them, some just had elastic waist bands. Therefore when you were in eighth grade and between classes in the West Hallway getting a drink of water and there were girls standing all around you getting a drink at the other water fountain and some guy standing behind you thinks it would be funny to drop your USA sweat pants and underwear down around your ankles, much to the surprise of everyone standing around you.......(deep breath).....yeah, rather than be happy when my Mom bought them for me, I would probably punch her in the mouth and burn them, had I only known!

**bookworm101** · June 4th, 2009

I would finish school before I did the sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

**Srbo** · June 4th, 2009

I`ve posted this once already, but what the heck:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Puppet

"If for a moment God would forget that I am a rag doll and give me a scrap of life, possibly I would not say everything that I think, but I would definitely think everything that I say.

I would value things not for how much they are worth but rather for what they mean.

I would sleep little, dream more. I know that for each minute that we close our eyes we lose sixty seconds of light.

I would walk when the others loiter; I would awaken when the others sleep.

I would listen when the others speak, and how I would enjoy a good chocolate ice cream.

If God would bestow on me a scrap of life, I would dress simply, I would throw myself flat under the sun, exposing not only my body but also my soul.

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hatred on ice and wait for the sun to come out. With a dream of Van Gogh I would paint on the stars a poem by Benedetti, and a song by Serrat would be my serenade to the moon.

With my tears I would water the roses, to feel the pain of their thorns and the incarnated kiss of their petals...My God, if I only had a scrap of life...

I wouldn't let a single day go by without saying to people I love, that I love them.

I would convince each woman or man that they are my favourites and I would live in love with love.

I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longer fall in love when they grow old--not knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love. To a child I would give wings, but I would let him learn how to fly by himself. To the old I would teach that death comes not with old age but with forgetting. I have learned so much from you men....

I have learned that everybody wants to live at the top of the mountain without realizing that true happiness lies in the way we climb the slope.

I have learned that when a newborn first squeezes his father's finger in his tiny fist, he has caught him forever.

I have learned that a man only has the right to look down on another man when it is to help him to stand up. I have learned so many things from you, but in the end most of it will be no use because when they put me inside that suitcase, unfortunately I will be dying. "

**pandora** · June 4th, 2009

Not a thing!!! Looking back even the worst of times had a purpose and got me where I am today......happy!!!!!!

**Roseasharn** · June 4th, 2009

I would GO TO COLLEGE!
Yeah, that is essentially it.

**JohnDalglish** · June 4th, 2009

Originally Posted by pandora

Not a thing!!! Looking back even the worst of times had a purpose and got me where I am today......happy!!!!!!

Hi,

Me too, everything you've done. every mistake you've made (and I've made plenty) makes you who and what you are today and I'm quite happy with that.

Long days and pleasant nights