One Time...

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. :)

I would have told my grandmother to get a major check up, because she died a couple yearsback, due to a blood clot.

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.

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.

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.

STOP BEING LAZY AND HIT THE DAMN GYM!!!  

Originally posted by shingoku
STOP BEING LAZY AND HIT THE DAMN GYM!!!  

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.

[Bobs_Hardware]

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    (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  

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.

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

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.

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.

[Bladez]

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.

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