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Would you start life over again if you could?

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  1. Kaiser

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    If I knew what I did now, yes. It would mostly be starting sooner on particular things and certain areas. My experiences make me uniquely me, obviously, and I am not sure how I would be without them.

    Get situated earlier, invest more time into finances and projects. I'd be a fool to pass up that chance...

    If I could start again, with better new parents, perhaps. While I was kept alive and tended to, there was never a chance for proper emotional development. This, tacked on with my own suspected issues, has provided the root for even my current situations. While I have gained insight and experience, I have lost ample time to actually building substantial relationships that extend beyond convenience or benefit.

    So maybe, if the conditions were right.
     
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    Meh, Im too lazy to undergo 19 years of shits again
     
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  3. CodeForLife

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    Agree 100%. I really would not want to have to go through all of the stressful school and life situations and projects again. Just thinking about having to do everything over stresses me out. :eusa_doh:

    Yeah, I get that I didn't always make the right choices. I've been embarrassed before, over-stressed about things, lost friends, and encountered other negative experiences, just like all human beings. However, this has made me who I am and I appreciate that I can at least reflect back on these events and see how to do things better in the future. Ignorance probably is bliss, but I appreciate having, accumulating, and sharing knowledge. :slight_smile:

    From an objective standpoint, I'm kind of under the impression that things have to happen the way that they happen, and no, I am not religious. Remembering this calms me down a little sometimes though. (*hug*)
     
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    Well, if I get to start again even before my birth, I would probably choose to be born as a girl. Or not being born at all.
     
    #44 RainDreamer, Jul 17, 2015
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    No it's tiresome and hard if I have to start all over again. :-/
     
    #45 JessRae, Jul 17, 2015
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    I wouldn't, I made it through the terribleness that is childhood and my teens, and now that I know how much it sucked, and am out of it, I would never go back to that.
     
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    There are things I wish I would have done different but if that means I'll be doing the whole thing over, sorry I'll past.
     
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    Knowing what I know now about my attractions and being honest with myself would make all the bullying I went through a lot worse. In this area, it is still homophobic. I am not sure I would if I was just going back to 1983 and being born again. When you have overbearing parents like I did, things could have been a disaster if I had come out. I would have had reparative therapy or something. Now, if we are talking different parents(accepting ones) and born in the 90's somewhere else, I would have to really think about it.
     
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    Hell no. I wouldn't re-live my childhood for anything. I would, however, love to start again at age 21 or so.
     
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    Well maybe...there would be so much more time to do things with. But at the same time no, I feel like the experiences I've had were necessary and that it would be strangely suffocating to relive my childhood without any of the innocence. A terrible idea for my sanity really. I feel like that would be so difficult.
     
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    Yeah, I would seek out an LGBT group probably when I was in college. I agree with that. I don't know if I would have come out until I got done with college though.
     
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    I would love to have done things differently but I don't think starting again is the awnser
     
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    No......but I would go back a couple years if I could.
     
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    Already done it.
     
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    No.
     
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    I wouldn't mind going back to 17. Maybe 15. Before that? Hell no.

    I would either change nothing or very little. I had a lot of fun since my late teens and I wouldn't mind repeating most of it. Yes, even the time the radiator dug into my foot; I would just take better pictures. Would my life turn out the same if I took the same risks? If I wasn't sure of that, then I probably wouldn't be willing to turn back time. Of course, ask me when I'm 50, and I think my answer will almost certainly be yes.
     
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    No. Not everything has been nice but it happened the way it was supposed to happen.
    I'm happy going with the flow of life these days.
     
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    few things I would deal with differently yes .
     
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    Probably. I wonder if things would've turned out differently, though.
     
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