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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Ryu on February 26, 2002, 10:48:12 PM
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Here\'s the hypothetical situation. Use your imagination and your personal experiences in life to think of an answer to this question. There are a couple of guidelines to follow, but those will come after the question.
If you were given a time machine and were allowed to change one event or aspect of your life, what would it be?
Now, to make this more challenging, I don\'t want any BS answer like "go back in time and invest in Microsoft" or "go back in time and build a copy of the time machine." I want original answers and they have to be related to your own lives so that way everyone\'s answer will be different. Here\'s a couple of examples:
- Spending time with a family member before they pass on.
- Telling yourself to stay in shape for the future.
- Redeem a past mistake (be specific) and avoid it from happening.
The possibilities really are endless and since they are an aspect of your own personal lives, the answers should be even more varied. I want you all to really think about it before you answer though. I\'ll respond later on tomorrow when I get some of my work out of the way. Good luck everyone. :)
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I would have told my grandmother to get a major check up, because she died a couple yearsback, due to a blood clot.
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Some tough issues here. If I could somehow influence my personality and innate character, by time traveling, I would like to change how I live my life. I\'m lazy. Now, I know that sounds stupid, but it is not just that I\'m lazy, I procrastinate beyond belief. It gets me into trouble in school (nothing unmanageable) but has also repeatedly blocked my own career aspirations and ambitions, mainly game design.
If I could somehow go back in time and "fix" myself so that I wouldn\'t put off learning what I need to learn, or just getting my foot into the door of opportunity, so to speak, I would do so.
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To be honest, I wouldnt change one aspect of my life..if I did, I wouldn\'t really be me now would I? Catch my drift?
As for as changing something in history, I think I\'d attempt to change slavery and the holocost, not to mention nagasaki and hiroshima. 4 of the worlds most horrid events to date.
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I woulda stayed in high school and kept playing football, instead of dropping out, quitting football, and spending my days smoking weed and drinking milkshakes.
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STOP BEING LAZY AND HIT THE DAMN GYM!!! :D
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Originally posted by shingoku
STOP BEING LAZY AND HIT THE DAMN GYM!!! :D
Amen!
Yeah, I\'m pretty damned lazy...I\'d probably go back to about 2 years ago, decide which HS I would finally go to, and work out there. Not like I"m fat or anything, I just wish I was a bit more cut.
See Yuz.
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1) Be more social, im a bit of a hermit really, and my anti-social behaviour has pretty much fuct up my entire life to the point where i am so shy i cant talk to people if i dont know them intimately. This has also effected every single facet of my life, from going out and finding a job to getting a girlfriend or having fun at parties etc. etc. It\'s too hard for me, and i would force myself at an early age to start socialising with all sorts of people.
that first one is really enough to change my life to the point where i could do everything i could ever want to do that i might list down as wanting to change anything..
but others would include
2) laziness, go back and instill some sort of values in my life, although the laziness really comes from point one where as its not laziness, but the fact that i cant go out and do things. This would in turn let me have been better at sports and athelticsas well as swimming (i was always the best runner, long jumper, high jumper, long distance runner, breaststoker at my school, plus i was great at most sports) but because of this i never went to any training and, despite the fact that i look like im in shape, i am INCREDIBLY unfit. But also there is some laziness.. i was also one of the more intelligent people at our school (as hard as that might be for you guys to believe :)) but i did less work than ANYONE else at our school (even those who were fuct up on drugs all day long). Ugh.So my grades werent the best.. still better than about 60% of the school.. but not the best
3) Removing all grandma pornography from my computer before my parents found it
4) Not telling all you guys that
5) Ok those last two were jokes :p (or were they?) but theres more serious things i would change, but i think ya\'all have learned enough about the life of Bobbo for
Ryu, this is a really good topic, and if you people really think about it, its really deep and profound in that you may start to think about where you would be, or who you would be right now if certain events of your life had been different. How would we act, react and basically live our lives. I know i\'d be a completely different person, i might have fallen in with the wrong crowd at school (upon entering high school i was with the people who quickly became those i hated due to the fact that they were the \'cool\' people and started messing around with all sorts of ****. Then again, what i said is a little bit more significant than "i better hit the gym so i can get laid" or something like that :D
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If I were to be able to take a single trip back in time to change a single moment in my life that might have a profound change to the lifestyle I live today I would have to change how close I was with my brother and sister.
I love them both and they love me, but as far as an in-depth relationship, that I don’t really have. Now that I have been married for a few years, I have become even more distant from them both.
My brother and I are starting to get together every once and a while, but it will take some time before I have the relationship I wish I had with them both.
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Well i have to agree this is quite a good topic that i wouldnt have thought up myself
well one thingi would change is:
1. Moving to texas - if i could have somehow kept my dad from remarring i would have gotten to see my mom and family and might have been happier as some family wasnt here when i moved back unfortunately
2. Go back to about 10 months ago when i first meet my last gf kelly and prepare myself for everything that would happen with us - and maybe be able to give her what she wanted and needed and possibly make things work out - i dont know how much longer i can take being friends
3. Spend more time with my mom - since i moved i hadnt really called her or visited her much before and now that im here living with her it shows a lot - we arent very close as i was with my dad - and she does all these things that annoy me but she doesnt know they do since i havent been around
4.Go back and talk to all those girls that i wasnt sure about liking me and talk to them and get me some because dang i hate it how by the time you know its too late and they think you dont like em and so on - plus i would help myself be the greatest ladies man oh yeaaa
last one isnt serious - well not really ;)
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Heh, this is such an easy choice for me.
I would return to this one day during the 5th grade back in early 1996. I have yet to forget that day, and it has haunted me ever since it happened. It basically consisted of me being pressured by my friends to say something... "bad"... about this one girl in my class... and she heard about it. It ultimately brought an abrubt end to our friendship (we were actually pretty good friends). Ironic how she was (and still is) the only girl that I\'ve thought myself to be in love with, even back when we were friends.
God, I\'ve always felt such a deep regret for that day and what I said. And now, because I couldn\'t resist the pressure from my dumbass ex-friends, I lost the only girl to conquer my heart.
So yeah, if I had a time machine, I would return to that day and convince my old self to never say what I said. Nothing that has happened in my life compares to that single event, so it wouldn\'t be a tough decision.
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Wow, some of these stories ring a bell. I\'m one of the athletic people at school, one of the best at football and basketball. But thats doesn\'t matter. I am one of the smart people too. But i tend to lay things off. I don\'t follow through on what i tell myself. There\'s a project due, nah i\'ll turn it in late for an 80%. Math homework, i\'ll just copy the next day before class. Get in better shape for football, it\'ll happen overnight. Thats what i do, i\'m lazy. I always wonder if that will come back to haunt me. And i know it will unless i straighten up, but i can\'t do it. Bah.
If i would change one thing...hum....thats hard. I haven\'t had anyone in my family die since i\'ve been alive, well one, but i didn\'t know him. I would take myself back about 5 months, when i let my temper get the best of me. There was this girl that i really liked, we were friends for a while then we were just starting to "get somewhere." I got mad, let a little thing become a big thing, and Poof! it\'s all gone. We\'ve became friends again, but nothing like we were. Meh.
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Here\'s a few things I\'d do:
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- Tell myself quit asking Qwabi because she\'ll always say "no."
- Tell myself not to get certain videogames and a certain console.
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Well, what I\'d change is kinda a long story, but here it goes.
In 6th grade, I lived a little less than a mile from school, so I used to walk home everyday with a group of friends. We did some really stupid stuff at the time. We stole stuff on the way home, we threw stuff at cars, things like that. Well, one day, we found this old shoe on the sidewalk. In our stupidity, we decided it would be cool to throw it at a passing car. Well, I ended up being the one to do the throwing. The next car to pass got a shoe right to its bumper. It was actually a pretty nice car. A red convertable of sorts. It wasn\'t damaged, but the driver pulled over to see who had thrown the shoe. By that time, I was long gone. I had cut through some yards to a parallel street. The woman driving the car found the friends I had been walking with though, and found out their names.
The next day in school, they were called one at a time to the principal\'s office. The woman whose car I had hit ended up being our area\'s superintendent of the highways. She called into school with the names of my friends. They had told her I was someone else, but she didn\'t believe them, so the principal decided to find out who had really thrown the shoe. Every one of my friends refuse to tell who had done it, or made something else up, except for one. Perhaps my best friend among those questioned was the one who told that I was teh one who did it.
Well, needless to say, I got into a ****load of trouble. None at school, since it was off school grounds, but I got grounded for a LONG time at home. I got really pissed off at the person who had told the principal that I threw the shoe. After that, we kind of drifted apart. That event, combined with the fact that I could barely leave the house for a few months kind of killed our friendship. I still regret this today, since I think we really had a good thing going.
Anyway, if I could go back in time, I would keep myself from doing all that stupid shit while walking home. Besides all the trouble I got into for it, I think it really killed what had been a very good friendship.
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Originally posted by Luke
I woulda stayed in high school and kept playing football, instead of dropping out, quitting football, and spending my days smoking weed and drinking milkshakes.
im gonna have to agree with luke here i quit playing football too we were the starting linebackers if we stuck with it all four years we would have been a couple of real badasses
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I would stop my wifes Father from driving on the day that he had an accident that ended his life. Lona was only one month old at the time so she had a tough life growing up without a poppa. But that\'s what makes her the bestest chick ever........
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Hah, Ryu, I thought you didn\'t like all this off-topic stuff :).
Anyway, I\'ll take this one seriously. I\'ll tell you something that I usually keep into my secrets list, but maybe this is what I need. Maybe I need to talk about it a little, and is much easier to me to talk about it with people that I\'ll never meet, in an anonimous forum on the internet, than in real life. There it goes, and if you (the reader) aren\'t going to take this seriously, please skip this useless post.
To tell you the truth, there\'s only one "event" that I\'d want to change if I could.
Well, it hapenned about 8-10 years ago. At that time, my life was very chaotic (there\'re a lot of bad and strange things going on), and I was a bit lost to say the least. My mother were always at work (at least that\'s what I thought at that time, stupid me), and my father... well, I\'ve only seen him 4-5 times in my entire life so...
I was alone at home most of the time, and for some reason people\'s presence bothered me during those 2 years. I just wanted to be alone for some time, but I\'m not sure why.
That year, I started in a new class. It was the nicest group of people I\'ve never met, but I didn\'t care at that time (yes, I was kinda stupid). The situation was like that for a few weeks, until I started to talk with one girl (the sister of one of my friends).
How would I describe her? Have you ever met a person as good that makes you believe again in humanity? That makes you recover the faith?. That\'s her.
I was in a bad point of my life, and I wanted to keep everybody away from me, even her. At first, I was totally indifferent with her. That worked well until then, but the only thing she did was smile at me, like if she knew that I was acting. That left me confused everytime I was with her. Then the things went worse, and I was quiet and distant continuously. But she never left me; she did and said some things that I\'ll never forget, and I think that she has changed me completely (it\'s hard to explain in a few words).
Some time later, I had to move to my granmother\'s house (family stuff, and not too nice), and I left her. I don\'t know what she\'s doing now, maybe she\'s even married, but I find it impossible to forgive her. If I had the chance, I\'ll go back in time, go to where I lived and had a great/long conversation with the little me until he stopped acting like a moron, and started to look at the right place.
But, maybe, I lost my chance.
PS: Hey, you did ask, didn\'t you? :)
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1. Go back and tell my friend to stay away from this guy at school that eventaully almost got him thrown in jail for 5 years for car theft.....
2. Go back and make more friends...I might not be as shy as I am now......
3. Tried Asking more girls out in school.........I got shot down alot in Elementary School
That why I am shy........Rejected at an early age does that.....
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Mine without a doubt has to do with my dad, about 6 months ago he got 3 fingers cut off and they weren\'t able to reattach them. We had always done sports together and now hes not able to do half of the things he could do before. I just wish I didn\'t take for granite him being able to do all those things with me. The whole sports thing isn\'t all though, I also have nightmares like every other night because of it. For some reason it was about just as tramatizing to me as to him. I\'ll never forget that day.
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Things I would change (I hope nobody is reading these really close :)) :
1) Save my first dog from being killed by a car (he was hit twice in two years, second time by a speeder).
2) Make myself keep up with pitching and baseball, and take up football (cause I grew 14 inches and put on 50 pounds from 18-19 years old).
3) Avail myself of the opportunity I had when I was 15 (and still believed in white weddings), to spend the evening with an 18 year old girl I had a crush on at a party. What the hell was I thinking!??! I think about that night allllll the time now, believe me.
4) Prevent me from breaking my arm in Spain. It healed badly, and they had to re-break it (in front of my cryin\' eyes), and reset it. It\'s still a wee bit bent.
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1.)Would of never hurt an old g/f and my friends who I mean alot to and who mean alot to me
2.)Would of never let my relationship w/my father go down the drain and not be stuck here not have talked to him in over a year.
3.) Would\'ve never started doing drugs in the first place.
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First off, I want to thank everyone who took the time to seriously think and then reply to this topic. I know for a lot of you, this was a very difficult question to answer because it actually involved dropping your guard to a bunch of strangers for a minute and revealing a little sorrow in your life that you wish you could fix. It increases my respect for the few who have replied seriously and for that, I thank you as well.
Hah, Ryu, I thought you didn\'t like all this off-topic stuff.
I actually don\'t remember saying that specifically, but if you could point me towards the quote, I sure could use the nostalgia. :)
For as long as I can remember, my mother has never been good with relationships. It\'s not that they beat her or anything like that, it\'s just that every husband\\boyfriend that she has had for as long as I can remember has been a complete scumbag. Even my father, which I only have one fond memory with when I was around 3 or 4 years old, was a complete asshole to my mother. The only husband my mom has ever had who treated her right was her first husband, but he died in a truck accident shortly after my brother was born and if he hadn\'t of died, I wouldn\'t be here.
For those keeping score, my mom has been married four different times ending by being widowed once, and then three divorces following after that. Let\'s just say, her luck with the male species hasn\'t been all that great, but all of the husbands and even now her current boyfriend, I\'ve had to deal with. Honestly, I\'ve hated them all in one way or another. It just bothers me so much to see her treated this way by the scum of the Earth all because she feels lonely.
So, here\'s what I\'d do: I\'d go back in time and sit down with my mom and tell her that we\'re all better off without these people entering our lives and causing havoc. I\'d want to sit her down and have her listen to what her grown up son has to say about these mistakes, that her tiny tot of a son would be better off without all this drama in his life. Tell her that even though her other son is terminally ill, I will grow into my role and care for him as best as I can when I got older. I\'d tell her that sometimes, rather than directing your care at your ill son, that she should sometimes take time out and encourage my aspirations and wishes, and when she can, to indulge herself with her wishes as well.
Then, I want to tell my small tiny self to listen to my mother more, always treat women right, don\'t be shy around anyone and speak your mind when you can. I\'d also tell him that when oppurtunity knocks, but it involves a lot of work, just remember that sometimes more work can lead to an even greater life. We leave so many things unfinished in life, to skip those oppurtunites for some meaningless excuse.
Regret is a hard thing to live with. I kick myself everyday for missing oppurtunities, not taking the initiative and just being lazy overall. I just hope that with the changes I\'d want to inflict, that the life accomplishements I have made today, will still be waiting for me in the future (or is it the present?). I\'d hate to make a few changes here and there and end up in a different place then where I am now. I just hope that after these few changes, my girlfriend and future wife will still be waiting for me with open arms.
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I screw my ex a couple years back and later found out that I don\'t like her all that much, it was her first time so she was like crying and stuff about it *how traditional*. Anyways, if I get a time machine I\'ll probably go back and tell myself to rethink about the situation. *will I really gonna do this...?*....:rolleyes:
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Go back in time and make fun of myself..
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Originally posted by 182Ways
Heh, this is such an easy choice for me.
I would return to this one day during the 5th grade back in early 1996. I have yet to forget that day, and it has haunted me ever since it happened. It basically consisted of me being pressured by my friends to say something... "bad"... about this one girl in my class... and she heard about it. It ultimately brought an abrubt end to our friendship (we were actually pretty good friends). Ironic how she was (and still is) the only girl that I\'ve thought myself to be in love with, even back when we were friends.
God, I\'ve always felt such a deep regret for that day and what I said. And now, because I couldn\'t resist the pressure from my dumbass ex-friends, I lost the only girl to conquer my heart.
So yeah, if I had a time machine, I would return to that day and convince my old self to never say what I said. Nothing that has happened in my life compares to that single event, so it wouldn\'t be a tough decision.
ok.. anyone else here wanna know what he said about her? i know i sure do.. c\'mooooon
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and Ryu.. sounds to me that its not so much regret that your living with.. not really too much you could have done to change the situation.. whereas other people here made conscious decisions to do things, you had no idea :\\ mebbe im reading it wrong, and of course i dont know the full stories..
:fro: toot on
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Oh boy would i have fun.
First off, would it not be rather funny to go back in time, have sex with your much younger mother, and be your own father? THAT WOULD SO RULE.
...at least I think so...
In all seriousness, the first thing I\'d do is travel back into the late fifties, and meet my Dad\'s parents. They both died before I was born, and my Grandpa was well-traveled, he was British, and he had lived in Egypt and Burma. I\'d like to see what kind of person he is.
I\'d also like to meet Robert E. Lee, who is probably one of my most admired historical figures.
I\'d also like to see myself being born, and be able to tell my parents exactly what to do so that we can all have a better life. Like investing in Microsoft :D
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I would have done a few things:
Spent a bit more time with my dad before he died 5 years back (I was only 14) and changed my last words to him, which were \'Manchester United have just scored\'. Man that was stupid!
Worked harder for my A-Levels, and my degree, which I\'m still doing, but just cant be motivated!
Split with my girlfriend earlier, 4 years together now, shes too attached and its very hard to do.
Played soccer more as a youngster, then I wouldnt have been unfit and bust my knee in a trial for a team.
Thats about it