Do-Overs...What if you could have just one....What would it be? Why? (page 2)

I think I would have turned to digital art a lot sooner. I've been learning lately how to do the art that I've always wanted to... but convinced myself I didn't have the talent or ability for. Amazing what buying a few magazines, studying the tutorials of the professionals and just digging my heels in and not quitting has done. I'm now at the point whre I look at an object and instantly my mind starts churning over the layers and brushes I'd use to place that object in a piece of art... and I love it. I'm also now producing artwork that just at the start of this year I thought I'd never, ever be able to achieve. Quite easily too. Just working on ways to turn this into a career of some sort and never, ever have to work again (or dread Monday mornings).

ziddina

The only "do-over" I would want - and it would be a class of "do-overs", not just one...

I'd like to be successful in EVERY ONE of my animal rescues...

still thinking

I feel for you with that one tec...I have some similar do overs where my kids are concerned. Catholic school also being one of them.

LouBelle

I would like a couple of do-overs: Definately leave the faith as soon as I had the inkling of doubts which was at about 16/17. Would definately have taken up my 3 passions in school - Swimming, Tennis and Acting....who knows where I would be today.

Phizzy

Here in the U.K to "do someone over" means to give them a damn good beating ! So, answering your question as a Brit I would like to do over any man who has ever hit a woman, I would be kept busy I know, but what satisfying work !

As to my life, it makes no sense to go down the "I wish I had done so and so" path, hindsight is such a terrible thing, all those opportunities missed !

One thing I would love to change, I really hurt a lovely girl when I was an arrogant teenager, I would love to be able to go back and not even start the relationship with her, so that I never had to let her down at all, let alone harshly as I did.

cyberjesus

Things are what they are. Wishful thinking stays there. Wishes and thoughts.. If I cant change it why look back? I wouldnt change a thing cuz Its an impossible scenario.. its like thinking what if I was Bill Gates... well I am not. I am me. But what I can do is think of what I want to be with whatever time I have left...

Only look in the rear view mirror if you are planning to go backwards. Why waste the present wishing on the past.

The WT robbed us of our past... lets not let them rob us of our present.

transhuman68

It is difficult. The good times & the bad times are too closely combined for me to wish anything had been different... but I do wish I had got into A.A. eight years sooner than I did.

Man, I've lost a lot of brain cells...

I quit!

Whenever the "I wish that I never I had never been a JW thing" comes up my reasoning is similar to yours. I can't really say if things would have turned out better or worse. I would have never have met my wife who even though she is a JW is still my best friend. I would have never met a lot of my friends if I hadn't been a JW. And then there are all people I got to know online because of our Watchtower connection. My life overall is pretty right now. Change anything and it could be a lot worse. Maybe all things do happen for a purpose. Who knows? I think it is a good idea not to be too quick to judge what events in our lives are good or bad.

rip van winkle

IF YOU HAD JUST ONE DO OVER....What would it be? Why would you UN-do it? What would you gain/lose? Would it be worth it??

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I'm not a big believer in "What if"(s) as that is equivalent to regretting one's life. All the choices we made or didn't has led to where we currently are in life. And the question or the idea causes one to dwell in a place of self-pity. (I've had plenty of pity parties.)

But, to play with your scenario:

If I had only ONE DO OVER it would be an attitude and not a specific event.

I would have been more forgiving/kind/compassionate when I was younger(Pre-JW).

I would have gained peace of mind then and now.

I wouldn't lose a single thing by being more forgiving.

Yes, it would be worth it. Precious time would not have been wasted being angry or overly sensitive or indifferent with those I loved.

Do-Overs...What if you could have just one....What would it be? Why?

wha happened?

brinjen