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Posted by Iyrlk on Apr-16-2005 18:22:

decisions of past

Would you do some things differently if you had the choice of going back to the past?

Things that you regret, from little things like studying more, to big things like things you should never have done in a relationship..

And no betting, stocks and using future information to benefit you

Think before you answer.. although there are things you might regret and say if you could go back to undo them, there are decisions that you would not change however wrong for the value of that lesson.


Posted by kr00t0n on Apr-16-2005 18:37:

nothing really

as much as I would like to have changed some of the things that have happened in the past, all that has happened makes me who I am today and I am very happy with my life


Posted by Spacey Orange on Apr-16-2005 18:57:

Re: decisions of past

quote:
Originally posted by Iyrlk
Would you do some things differently if you had the choice of going back to the past?


everything, including looking at this thread.


Posted by Sinatra on Apr-16-2005 23:27:

No.. I have made mistakes in the past, yes but, I learned from them and now I am far more mature and better off after making those mistakes.


Posted by Lira on Apr-16-2005 23:32:

If I had done things differently, my present would be different. I'm happy the way it is, so I wouldn't like it to change, even though it's always fun to wonder "What if...?"


Posted by muzzybear on Apr-17-2005 13:35:

Instead of staying with a firm I was co-oping at in high school, I decided to go to university. If I had stayed at the company, I probably would be doing what I really wanted with my TV career. Instead, I've been taking freelance work, working at shitty companies doing shitty jobs. But when one door closes another door opens. Can't say I'm sorry for any decisions I've made with work, but things could have definitely been different.


Posted by xtractorfan on Apr-17-2005 14:00:

Not telling the girl how i felt that time was very regrettable but i think im too young to have any serious regrets. I will answer this question again in a few years...


Posted by Arbiter on Apr-17-2005 17:41:

I have no regrets, but there is one thing I would change without hesitation.


Posted by Iyrlk on Apr-19-2005 15:18:

quote:
Originally posted by Arbiter
I have no regrets, but there is one thing I would change without hesitation.


what is it


Posted by torontotrance on Apr-19-2005 15:19:

we learn from our mistakes, so to erase them would be to not learn anything.


Posted by d-miurge on Apr-19-2005 15:23:

quote:
Originally posted by torontotrance
we learn from our mistakes, so to erase them would be to not learn anything.


the wise man spoke


Posted by Moral Hazard on Apr-19-2005 15:29:

One day I came up with a cool tribal tatoo design... the design was acually my name set beside a mirror image of my name but the letters were stylized so that it was pretty hard to read. My girlfriend at the time snagged the design and, without my knowledge, had it tatooed on the small of her back running from one hip all the way to the other (It's huge). Unfortunately, I had already decided that I was going to terminate the relationship and did so about 3 weeks later. Six months later she's married to a former friend of mine and carrying his kid.

Looking back at it, if I could change anything I would make that tatoo easier to read so that every time he has her bent over he can't help but see my name staring back at him.


Posted by Lira on Apr-19-2005 15:30:

quote:
Originally posted by Arbiter
there is one thing I would change without hesitation.

Yeah, me too: I should've never signed up for I can't stop posting


Posted by kossack on Apr-19-2005 16:20:

quote:
Originally posted by muzzybear
Instead of staying with a firm I was co-oping at in high school, I decided to go to university. If I had stayed at the company, I probably would be doing what I really wanted with my TV career. Instead, I've been taking freelance work, working at shitty companies doing shitty jobs. But when one door closes another door opens. Can't say I'm sorry for any decisions I've made with work, but things could have definitely been different.


tv's pretty cut-throat sometimes... and i'd say you're definitely better off WITH your university degree. you'd have to work your way up from the bottom in the biz anyway, so although you've delayed your advancement a bit, all the better that you have a degree (you'll always be taken more seriously that way anyway..!)

personally, i'm LEAVING the tv industry.


Posted by kossack on Apr-19-2005 16:24:

oh, and i live by never regretting anything. it's pretty pointless, regret. if something can't be changed, why stress over what 'could have been'... just make the best of what IS.

that said i have become quite nearly an expert at damage control...


Posted by tribu on Apr-19-2005 16:33:

quote:
Originally posted by Moral Hazard
One day I came up with a cool tribal tatoo design... the design was acually my name set beside a mirror image of my name but the letters were stylized so that it was pretty hard to read. My girlfriend at the time snagged the design and, without my knowledge, had it tatooed on the small of her back running from one hip all the way to the other (It's huge). Unfortunately, I had already decided that I was going to terminate the relationship and did so about 3 weeks later. Six months later she's married to a former friend of mine and carrying his kid.

Looking back at it, if I could change anything I would make that tatoo easier to read so that every time he has her bent over he can't help but see my name staring back at him.



Posted by DJ Mikey Mike on Apr-19-2005 17:10:

I know it's a bit of a cliche, but I regret losing the only person that I am certain I wanted to spend the rest of my life with due to reasons that I shall not disclose. But let it be known that I am a fucking idiot, and I tell myself this every morning. Oh how great life is.



Die.


Posted by UWM on Apr-19-2005 17:12:

So Mikey, what are the reasons?


Posted by Arbiter on Apr-19-2005 20:18:

quote:
Originally posted by Iyrlk
what is it


If I were interested in elaborating on it, dont'cha think i might have done that in my first post?


Posted by sym on Apr-19-2005 23:05:

Wouldn't change a thing, because the decisions you've made in the past shape who you are in the present.


Posted by cmack on Apr-19-2005 23:46:

I think the majority regret something. Even though there are some things I regret, I wouldn't go back to change it because right now I realize it had to happen to get me to this point. Besides, if you truly think about it, you need those regretful experiences to teach you the 'lessons' so you don't repeat them.

But if I could go back, I would have learned to keep my mouth shut sooner in life.


Posted by Cal on Apr-20-2005 00:10:

quote:
Originally posted by d-miurge
the wise man spoke


Doesn't look so wise to me.

You would not be erasing your mistake as he said, you would be CHANGING them after learning from them.


Posted by torontotrance on Apr-20-2005 00:35:

quote:
Originally posted by Cal
Doesn't look so wise to me.

You would not be erasing your mistake as he said, you would be CHANGING them after learning from them.


or avoiding those situations if possible


Posted by b i n k u n on Apr-20-2005 00:43:

Not really a regret here, but thankful that i did choose a certain path.

I had a choice between studying undergrad in california or new york. i chose new york. if i had chosen cali, i woulda been where 90% of my friends were then and i would have never gotten the freedom to get out and do what i wanted to do. mainly, i would be listening to hiphop and infused with the entire cali asian-american culture and doing a business degree like every other kid from an asian family.

instead, i picked up trance, dj'ing, enjoyed 4 years in the big apple, finished my degree in music technology and am doing acoustic engineering in the UK now.

but then again, instead of suffering this horrible british weather, this unfinished lit review on active control due tomorrow just one alt-tab away, and the stress of studies...i could be kickin' back in cali.

*sigh. oh well. there's good and bad to everything. so what's the point of dwelling in the past? now back to my essay....


Posted by Iyrlk on Apr-21-2005 15:23:

quote:
Originally posted by Arbiter
If I were interested in elaborating on it, dont'cha think i might have done that in my first post?


just curious, that post was an open invitation for asking you what it is, do u see that?

the thing with this thread question is you always seem to hate when other ppl ask you what if? questions. but you yourself like asking it sometimes.



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