What would you do differently??

[^Tommyknocker^]

Too many things to write them all down, but afterall Im happy with my life.

When you are 20 you dont wanne do anything differently, when you are 30 you start thinking you better had done things differently and when you are 40you are sure of it
But its not because its different its better, sometimes its even worse

[mojomofo]

I wouldn't have worried so much about what other people thought of me. I prevented myself from doing things I wanted to do, and I want to go back and smack myself.

I would have went to college instead of moving out so I could play grown-up.

I would have bought a house that is NOT 60 years old and falling apart.

I would NOT have shared a fifth of whiskey with a friend on a hot day in a house with no air conditioning.

I wouldn't have started smoking again after the last baby.

I would have listened to my mom, and not been so eager to shave my legs. They weren't that hairy, I just wanted to be cool.

I would have gotten up from my table in Kindergarten and went to the bathroom, despite the teacher telling me no.

I would have taken my dog to the vet much sooner.

[Todash]

While I do like myself, I'd be lying if I said I'd not want to change anything about me. And I've certainly made decisions I'd not make again. Whether you call it karma or something else, I think overall doing the right thing produces the best results, so yes, there are some things I'd change if I could, and they mostly have to do with times when I acted out of fear rather than from love.

1. I would have stuck up for my little brother when we were kids and his "friend" pushed him off his bike, rather than just helping him afterward.
2. I'd have visited my father before he died, long before, because we might have been able to have a relationship. At least I would have known I'd done the right thing.
3. I would have ratted out a friend's boyfriend for making a pass at me when I was 17.

I will say, however, that at least I have learned a few things along the way: to stand up for the unjustly maligned and downtrodden, to cherish the connections I do have, to forgive with my actions and not just my thoughts, to tell the hard truths. In lieu of actually going back and changing the past, that's the best we can do.