If you were given an hour to spend in YOUR past

[paulney]

Originally posted by: tHa ShIzNiT
Am I the only one that would go back and bang my high school GF? Well I would, and she wouldn't walk right for days after.

Hell yes.

 

[Anubis]

id go back and tell myself to convince my dad to invest in apple

 

[Sentrosi2121]

Probably go back to the day I decided not to extend my contract in the Navy. I got out for some very stupid reasons. First one being that I thought I had a good chance of getting with my high school sweethart. Only to realize too late that she was a fool playing a fools game.

I'd be looking at another 3 years before retiring....I'd probably have got out of the Navy and gone Air Force at some point probably. I'd probably be an officer now serving as a ROA.

 

[theeedude]

Go back to when I was about 6 (before all the big turbulence in my life began) and give myself a notebook with what to do in the future.

 

[BoomerD]

Wow...there have been at least 1000 times I could go back to a time in April 1972 when MAYBE I could have kept my best friend and partner from getting killed in Vietnam...(the possible variables are nearly infinite...a different path, changed course earlier, waited to... etc...)but then again, I've always lived with the belief that when your number is up...there's nothing you can do to change that...so...I like the lottery idea...$300 million+ would be nice to have in the bank...

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands

Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Can I change something, or just visit?

If change is possible then I'd probably stop myself from marrying my ex (with apologies to my wonderful daughter who would then never be). If I was just visiting I guess I'd want to see my mom again, so sometime in my childhood.

Wait, you'd rather not get married and thus not ever have your daughter than having gone through that and now having your daughter?

Correct, though it's a very hard thing to be faced with. My daughter's life has been complete and total chaos and hell as a result of everything. She really has almost no chance at even semi-normalcy now.

Everyone around me has suffered endlessly as a result, not just me. Bankruptcy, medical issues from stress, total rifts and lost loved ones, etc. It was the single largest disaster in my extended family.

If it was just as simple as my life being a pain because of it, I'd be fine with it. But I destroyed a LOT of people by marrying my ex, including my daughter.

So basically you wish that your child was never born.

Your child has suffered, that is what you are saying, who's job is it to take care of your child if not YOURS?

I was divorced and she did her worst to me, i was too young to know better and i ended up with debts so big that i couldn't do much more than to keep on going, and i've raised two kids on my own up until they came into their teens, then i started going abroad for the money and you know what, we made it and we're going to be ok.

You just gave up on your own child and wishes she never been born because your so ridden with the self pity about your wife leaving you?

I'm not going to tell you to grow a pair because that does not help, i know what it feels like when the shit hits the fan, but you don't see your own mistakes and you would refuse to correct them if you did.

There is only one person there who deserves my sympathy and that is your daughter.

Wishing that your own child was never born instead of doing everything you can at every hour from the second she was born to make sure that she would be ok at all times is inexcusable, but it's not too late to start making her life better, fuck everyone else, you have a child, she needs you, go be with her.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands

Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Can I change something, or just visit?

If change is possible then I'd probably stop myself from marrying my ex (with apologies to my wonderful daughter who would then never be). If I was just visiting I guess I'd want to see my mom again, so sometime in my childhood.

Wait, you'd rather not get married and thus not ever have your daughter than having gone through that and now having your daughter?

Correct, though it's a very hard thing to be faced with. My daughter's life has been complete and total chaos and hell as a result of everything. She really has almost no chance at even semi-normalcy now.

Everyone around me has suffered endlessly as a result, not just me. Bankruptcy, medical issues from stress, total rifts and lost loved ones, etc. It was the single largest disaster in my extended family.

If it was just as simple as my life being a pain because of it, I'd be fine with it. But I destroyed a LOT of people by marrying my ex, including my daughter.

So basically you wish that your child was never born.

Your child has suffered, that is what you are saying, who's job is it to take care of your child if not YOURS?

I was divorced and she did her worst to me, i was too young to know better and i ended up with debts so big that i couldn't do much more than to keep on going, and i've raised two kids on my own up until they came into their teens, then i started going abroad for the money and you know what, we made it and we're going to be ok.

You just gave up on your own child and wishes she never been born because your so ridden with the self pity about your wife leaving you?

I'm not going to tell you to grow a pair because that does not help, i know what it feels like when the shit hits the fan, but you don't see your own mistakes and you would refuse to correct them if you did.

There is only one person there who deserves my sympathy and that is your daughter.

Wishing that your own child was never born instead of doing everything you can at every hour from the second she was born to make sure that she would be ok at all times is inexcusable, but it's not too late to start making her life better, fuck everyone else, you have a child, she needs you, go be with her.

Yeah, except you're making it up as you go along and don't have a freaking clue what you're talking about.

I'd love to take care of her properly, but the courts didn't choose to allow that. Instead I've had to sit by as she's traipsed across the country, molested/raped, mentally and emotionally abused, and god knows what else until she's heinously emotionally scarred and developmentally delayed as a result.

That's to say nothing of the costs that bankrupted members of my family, caused a separation, stress induced medical conditions, broke the family apart, landed me in jail, etc, etc, etc.

The fault is mine for ever marrying her, sure. But unfortunately it's others who have had to pay the price along with me. As much as I love my daughter it has been made crystal clear to me that there is NOTHING I can do. Nothing will take away what she's been through, nothing will suddenly make her well-adjusted and normal, nothing will make right what is wrong.

Obviously I can't go back and change the past, so we all just trudge along as well as we're able, doing our best. And we'll continue to do so until the day we die. But if I had an opportunity to save everyone, including my daughter, that pain and suffering, that lifetime of utter misery... I'd be a monster not to take it.

 

[sandorski]

Last week. At the Mall, buy the winning Lotto ticket, for the win.

 

[Unheard]

Originally posted by: tranceport
I'd save my sisters life.

I don't know if I would be able to but damnit, I would try exactly this.

 

[imported_LoKe]

There's no significant moment that changed my life. It's all one big cluster fuck. However, if I could go back and somehow convince my parents not to relocate for that new job back in grade school, I'd most certainly do that. Hopping from school to school messed my life up pretty bad.

 

[DrPizza]

If I could go back in time and relive an hour? I'd probably go back and eat a pizza. Pizza hut. Cheese and mushrooms.

 

[DangerAardvark]

I would go back to the night I lost my virginity, give the younger me a crash course on sex ed, then myself and I would totally double-team her. High-five me! Back at ya me! Then as our palms meet, the universe would explode. Small price to pay IMO.

 

[irishScott]

If change is possible with my current knowledge: I'd take steps to get myself out of that insane depression I was in during Senior Year of High School and actually start something with that hot chorus girl that had a crush on me; and vice versa . (if the eye contact game for a month isn't a crush, I don't know what is) .I had a nice adrenaline rush when I met her, which was at a Chorus after-party, so I was actually myself that night (confident/funny). Got on her "attractive" list. In reality, I was depressed and never got the balls or the energy to even keep a decent conversation going. Come to think of it, I'm snapping out of this depression, and the alumni concert is this December. And she's single according to facebook... *hopeful excitement ensues*

Getting back to the thread, if it was "read only" I'd go back to my early elementary school years at one my best friend's sleep-over birthday parties. We'd just play the original Super Smash until his parents made us stop, watch Space Balls until 2 in the morning, we even saw Zoolander when it came out. Awesome times.

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
I should've mentioned that this would have only read only capabilities! Going back in the past and changing ANYTHING is risky!

Dammit. Now I don't have a reason to go back at all. I haven't done anything worth reliving.

If I could change things, I'd go back to Febuary of '06 and tell J outright that I love her. Something I never got the courage to say.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
I would go back to the night I lost my virginity, give the younger me a crash course on sex ed, then myself and I would totally double-team her. High-five me! Back at ya me! Then as our palms meet, the universe would explode. Small price to pay IMO.

You mentioned your palms... freudian slip about how you actually lost your virginity?

 

[Special K]

This thread reminds me of The Butterfly Effect, a movie I really enjoyed. Every time the main character went back in time to try and fix some part of his life, he would always inadvertendly mess something else up. Eventually he realizes he will never be able to get his past perfect, because every good action he does in the past ends up having some unforseen negative consequence in the future.

It's a good movie if you like to think about "what if" scenarios like this one.

 

[NoShangriLa]

I would spend that precious hour with my grandfather.

 

[KPACOTKA]

I'd go back to the '50's.

 

[DangerAardvark]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
I would go back to the night I lost my virginity, give the younger me a crash course on sex ed, then myself and I would totally double-team her. High-five me! Back at ya me! Then as our palms meet, the universe would explode. Small price to pay IMO.

You mentioned your palms... freudian slip about how you actually lost your virginity?

I don't wank Freudian slips, okay?