Posted on 11/12/2016 2:42:32 PM PST by Chickensoup
Wondering if other people have things that they Would have done differently in life if you knew then what you know now??
Marriages?
Children?
Work?
Priorities?
Life choices?
Love?
Schooling?
Anything?
Thanks! God that was funny!!
Maybe I would have joined a cult .. you know bought Apple products!
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you and Limbaugh.
2 of my three kids have turned their backs on Christ. Knowing now that the world they grew up in was so vastly different than mine of the 1970s, I would have adapted my parenting accordingly. I used the parenting model of my parents where our faith was supported in our local culture and in college. It’s a greater fight than I knew - We were involved in a local church and walked the Christian path as a family. It just wasn’t enough in today’s broken world.
Not sharing this core belief with two so precious to me is my greatest heartbreak. It grieves me daily.
I would not have stopped going to church and left home too early in a rebellious phase of my life.
I would not have allowed my mother to change my last name every time she got a new boyfriend.
I would definitely post more vanities.
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chickensoup definitely does her part. So you don’t have to have any regrets.
I would not have stopped going to church and left home too early in a rebellious phase of my life.
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yep
In 2007 I decided to make a career shift and left a long term employer for greener grass. Then 2008 hit and diabetes and I found myself back at the same employer again, I was ecstatic, then Obama was elected and I was laid off. I bounced through 6 Jobs during this Obamanation period.
Much has been my own fault but, I also blame much on the spooked Obamanation economy and employers afraid to make total commitments to a diabetic employee because of Obamacare.
Man, that is a serious can of worms. I’ve done buried a lot of regrets, cause; H.G. Wells, I’m not.
2 of my three kids have turned their backs on Christ. Knowing now that the world they grew up in was so vastly different than mine of the 1970s, I would have adapted my parenting accordingly. I used the parenting model of my parents where our faith was supported in our local culture and in college. It’s a greater fight than I knew - We were involved in a local church and walked the Christian path as a family. It just wasn’t enough in today’s broken world.
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Speaking as someone who broke herself trying to avoid the culture with homeschooling and a different immersion Christian culture, I must say that it really didn’t work.
You not only still would have done it, you still would have enjoyed it just as much. :)
I should’ve Rock and Rolled All Night and Partied every Day!!
I’ve made a string of terrible decisions about location, training and associations which have and which continue to cost me dear. On the other hand, altering almost any of them would unmake my kid. My kid is a trial right now, a fierce one, but I would not want life without that kid, disappointed and hurt not withstanding.
The only one left would be my effort to open a business and change careers that I attempted a few years ago. I would surely undo that if I could.
Man, that is a serious can of worms. I’ve done buried a lot of regrets, cause; H.G. Wells, I’m not.
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I guess many of us do. I appreciate the honesty and the humor on this thread.
Free Republic reminds me of the uncles, aunts and other family members who got together often to share a meal and visit. Interesting subjects, and interlaced with humor and good stories.
I agree. I had talked to a Marine Corps recruiter several times and almost signed up. Looking back across 35 years...wish I had.
If that's a little too corny for anyone, probably my second biggest regret is not saying "yes" to the two lovely ladies that propositioned me (at a party, not on a street corner) with a 3-some. I was too much of a good wingman, a buddy of mine had a tremendous crush on one of them. In retrospect, he never would've known, heck, he ended up marrying someone else anyway...
I wouldn’t do a single thing different.
I like my life and all the experiences that I’ve been through.
I have three wonderful adult children. I wish I had had one more.
Sorry and do not want to sound mean, but of course if anyone knew then what they know now then negative things would be different. With a different knowledge, or essentially more and better information, at the time of decision making most of us would have different outcomes. Is this not why hindsight is 20/20. And obviously this question rarely comes up about ‘good’ things in our pasts.
I would live fully for the one who died for me. Every morning of every day.
I would have instilled in my children a love for Christ that no college education could question.
The best advice came from my Grandad.
He told me to learn from my mistakes, try to do better, go with my gut, never trust people that my gut said, “Don’t trust this person”. #1. Don’t waste your time with losers (that didn’t really click in until I was 40 heading to 50), at 50 it became basically step one with new people in my life and ones who had been around for awhile. I waited too long to avoid losers.
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