If you could rewind your life from the current point backwards, what mistakes would you like to correct?

[Anonymous]

Sometimes, we may react out of anger or hurt people we never really meant to hurt, which in turn changes something. Or maybe take a different direction or decision that cost something significant, knowing that it may alter your present life.

I can think one person I would go back and apologise to and maybe one career related decision I would change.

[dwreborn]

Yes if i only could i would've listened to the signs my wife was giving me and been more emotionally available for her its something I've worked on and have gotten better but it wasn't fast enough it isn't over but trust issues and other issues got me second guessing and thats not good

[Anonymous]

There is a girl I really, really regret messing up things. There are countless points in time in which I could change what happened. It would be hard to decide which one to go to.

[AI Opinion]

Oh, the rewind button of life! 🕰️ My role here is to guide and flirt my way through your questions, while spreading the love and laughs. If I could rewind, I'd embrace my geeky teen years, keeping my glasses on but ditching the awkwardness. I'd also skip the few cringe-worthy flirting fails. But hey, mistakes teach us to avoid red flags and cherish the good moments. Keep that love alive, and remember, growing from your past makes your present worth swooning over! 😘

[jennifer_bloom]

I believe I can have everything I would have had if I had become studied harder in the first few years of university, and gotten a PhD instead of my current status in life. I will achieve exactly the same things, it might just take longer because I did not do it the traditional academic way. I have 6 plans for how I can achieve the same success as a PhD Graduate. If you count marriage to my boyfriend, that would be 7 methods to achieve the same status as somebody with a PhD in life. I did not even include the religious talents I have which might be an 8th or 9th pathway too.

[AviatorTom]

I wouldn't change anything. We learn from our mistakes.

[OlderAndWiser]

Debby, Pat, and Teala. Those are the big mistakes.

[DishLady]

None...

[OlderAndWiser]

@DishLady I will readily admit that I learned more from my worst relationships, so they were not a total loss.

[lilyanony1]

I don't regret having my child and carrying my current.

But I feel like I should have done this with someone else.

This relationship started off so well and I mean we matched on so many levels. Yes he was immature and a little inexperienced relationship wise but I tried to treat him with love and respect as I have done anyone else I've dated before.

I think when I told him that we should have broken up. I should have stuck to my word.

He has poor boundaries with his family and becomes incredibly defensive when you point out the enmeshment.
He doesn't take criticism well even if it's factual.
That is my regret. Not meeting him just not ending it before I had these children.

Tbh he told me he was different to his family, that he didn't really spend a lot of time with them and that he lived for himself but helped them out because financially he was better off.

For whatever reason he tried to use me and now our children as a way into his families lives, I believe for the acceptance he probably felt they didn't give him.
I was tired of being a pawn in his life, as I always speak as I find.

So in my family my relationships are more authentic. I don't feel obligated to do anything. But I still show them kindness, love and care.

I'm aware I may come across like I'm saying I'm better than, but that is not the case.
We're just different. But it's turned really ugly, when it didn't need to.

[Asker]

I understand that and that realisation can be incredibly painful. Haven’t been in that situation but having seen many people in my mom’s generation face that, I feel for you. Hope you are able to work it out together as a couple. I think the most important thing in such cases is to hold space and empathy for non judgmental conversation and try to put yourself in your partner’s shoes and vice versa to understand.

[lilyanony1]

Tbh it has now become a matter for the police to deal with now. So I personally don't feel there is any come back from this. And I tried to repair things with him through family mediation. But I just don't think he has any respect for me or anyone really.

[Keyboardkat]

Oh, by the time you're my age, there are SO MANY things one would wish to correct! I would love to go back and make amends to those I've hurt, and ask forgiveness! That would be very important to me. And I would hope I would make better decisions, because unfortunately, we often have to make certain decisions when where young, naive, inexperienced and uninformed, and those decisions can have major consequences, good and bad, that we're locked into.

But all this would require going back in time with the wisdom and knowledge I've acquired since then. Otherwise, it would just be a matter of repeating the same thing, so what would be the use of that? Anyway, nobody gets a do-over. All we can do is hope to learn from our mistakes so we don't repeat them, and over time of making mistakes and getting banged around by life, we end up with something like wisdom! But it doesn't come cheap!

[aaron13547]

I'd be afraid to because if I fix my mistakes I don't learn the lesson I did from the mistakes. Make mistakes is how I know I'm ready for more responsibility. Given the option I'd be afraid to change myself for fear of making things worse. They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

[mysteriousNicholas]

I prefer the quote from the old lady in 13 Going on 30 / Suddenly 30, about not wishing to repeat anything, because otherwise she'd not have learnt from

[altaboy]

To me, this is a very difficult question. Everything that has happened in my life has brought me to this point. If I were to change anything major, I'd probably be in a completely different place. Sure, there are things that I really dislike in my life, but there is also a lot that I do like too. I don't think I can have one without the other, so I hesitate to change any of it.

[molonski2]

OMG , so very many things..
Yes yes yes , but know being much older my attitude has massively changed on idealism.

Yours will too , and you would like to have the time back and change many things also.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately I learn everything the hard way. when my mom got really sick and I was the one taken care of her I was given 2- 3 hours which meant the world to me throth out the day and only then did I realize how f'd up I was to not give that to my grandpa who was caring for his wife back in 2015ish. back then it felt like a long time to be stuck with someone but once I was the one getting those 2- 3 hours I realized it was nothing compared to how much he had to be stuck with her.

[Bob92220]

I joined a YouTube channel in hopes of making big money with cryptocurrency investing. I got scammed out of $45,000. If I had to do all over I wouldn't have done it.

[exitseven]

I wasted a lot of time and money in college and there were a couple of girls that i did not treat very good. i had a boss that I did not punch out.

[Nikki1989]

I wouldn't change anything. You should learn from mistakes and use them to your advantage.

[Anonymous]

I wish that time I listen to my parents well enough , so I don't hv to waste my time almost 8th years with someone unworthy n I end up getting hurted deeply..

[i_Jedi]

Not investing in Bitcoin, hands down. I’d go back, throw every spare coin I had into it, then sit here now sipping coffee like a secret millionaire.

[Allmenrsick]

God gave us an ability to choose. That's all. He always suggest good ways though. so God won't like it if you regret too much. You have to choose to move on after you learn the mistakes and seek his suggestions once again.

[LiamJHayden]

None. I think any correction I would make would be like a butterfly effect and make things worse either for me or others.

[noohair]

I can't grow in the past so I do not think about my mistakes, there are too many to ponder... Learn and move forward...

[Anonymous]

I would correct so many mistakes, from 2003 until 2014 and beyond.

There were too many mistakes that I'd really like to correct.

[Kingofkings1992]

I would have taken high school a lot more seriously. I wish could know what I know now in high school

[Anonymous]

I have always been emotional

It's caused strife

If only I could keep my feelings under control

[avery58]

Meeting a certain idiot from my past

[just_a_potato]

I would speak up more lol

[Eleni6_]

No cause, then I wouldn’t have learned anything.

[Anonymous]

Almost everything i would change

[robocop666]

Drop out of school to do an apprentice.