If you knew then what you know now, what might you have done differently?
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ANSWERS: 15
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I would have learnt some good things, some bad things... the consequences would spiral into the unknown. [Edit: Typo]
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i would have spent more time with my mum instead of going out with friends and i would have made sure my mum knew i was sorry for the way i behaved growing up. thats the one thing i would change because i have to carry that guilt with me everyday and its hard
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I would not have gotten married and when divorce time came I would have thought about the decisions I made involving certain aspects of it more thoroughly.
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I probably wouldn't have bought the trailer (manufactured home) that I bought 4 years ago, sold 3 years later (at a $10,000 loss). Expensive lesson. Should've rented during the 2 years I lived there, and paid for a year without living there (bought a house and had 2 payments for a year... oww). All the money I saved during the 2 years living cheap... was eaten up by the next years rent and the loss from the sale.
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I would not have missed my exit on teh highway... which then led me to rear end a car owned by a law suit seeking loser. She tried to fraud the insurance company for 10 million dollars, claiming I gave her heart valve problems... she had been on disability for the same reason for 10 years. Other than that, all the events of my life have shaped who I am today. As painful as some of them were, I would not be who I am today if I hadn't walked that path.
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Run away quite possibly. No probably not actually... I would of tried harder to make my mum proud of me. I wish I made her proud like Katie does.
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I cannot think of a lot of major things I would have done differently. A different career. I would have made sure finances were sorted out sooner as my husband wanted and I kept saying we had plenty of time. I would not change any of our life together.
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I would have stayed in High School longer and tried harder (1960 - 1964). I would have stood up to my father (he died 10 years ago). I would not have got pregnant & married my first husband (1967 - 1979). I would not have opened a shop and lost all our money (1998 - 2004).
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I wouldnt believe them when they said all you need is a well written resume. All you REALLY need is highly placed contact within the organization for which you want to work- on whom you have proof of some dark and loathsome secret. What would I have done differently? Not bought into the American myth... I mean "dreeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaammmmm".
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I would have been nicer to people. I would have taken more chances. I would have worked harder on things that matter more - like my schooling. I would have asked my wife out on a date sooner.
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I would have not gotten married for the second time and finished going to school. I would have waited longer to have children and traveled the world. How typical is this?
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studied more in college - grad school is hard to get into with lousy undergrad grades
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Answering looser's question. Just stay away! LOL
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100 percent YES
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Question is a bit confusing. Would I go back and make changes in the past based on what I know now? Trouble is, what I know now is based on what I did in the past...so if I were to change the past I wouldn't know what I know now. How would I know that I would be better off? The reality is that we seem to know what we need to know at every stage of our lives. When I started school I didn't know how to read or write. I learned, and learned other things as the years went by. It seems as though I learned whatever I needed to know to survive and function in the age I found myself. Yes I know more now than I knew ten years ago...but my current knowledge is the result of the decisions I made ten years ago. Once I realized this I have come to an acceptance of my life as it is. I look forward to whatever the universe presents to me in the future.
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