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What Would You Have Done Differently in Life If You Knew What You Know Now?
11.12.16 | chickensoup

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?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: choices; life
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Relating to that, I would be more careful about what sorts of women I had gotten involved with. I have had experiences with women who, if I can say it this way, just weren’t right for me. Yet due to desires and situations, got involved, got in too deep, with people who just weren’t right for me.

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41 posted on 11/12/2016 2:53:39 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against whites. Beware.)
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To: Chickensoup
To start with I would take dad's advice: "I think you should go into computers" (circa 1976)

I would have taken the extreme hottie Kim up on her completely carnal offer in college.

Sorry, I can only think of 50 million others at the moment.

42 posted on 11/12/2016 2:54:26 PM PST by lafroste (Look at my profile page. Thanks.)
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To: Chickensoup

Never to have put alcohol and nicotine into my body. Sucks being a cardiac and pulmonary cripple.


43 posted on 11/12/2016 2:54:36 PM PST by buckalfa (I am deplorable.)
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To: Chickensoup

Certainly not.


44 posted on 11/12/2016 2:54:37 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: InkStone
I wish I would have given my life to Christ as a young man, instead of waiting so long...

Best answer there will be on this thread. Bless you brother!

45 posted on 11/12/2016 2:55:06 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Chickensoup
The list is large - all choices I had in front of me at one time, and made the wrong ones:

- Would have worked much harder in high school and tried to get into Stanford in 1982, majoring in Computer Science.

- Would have gone to work for Microsoft in the late Eighties when I had a chance to do so.

- Would have bought vast quantities of Apple stock at its lower points before the return of Steve Jobs.

- Never would have bought Las Vegas real estate in the last few years before 2008.

- Never would have left my job in 2008 to resume my consulting career.

- Never would have opened a retail store in a major mall.

Things look pretty good going forward, though, especially since Hillary will not be President. I'll try to avoid making any more massive blunders from here on out. :)

46 posted on 11/12/2016 2:55:16 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Chickensoup

Be more respectful to God.


47 posted on 11/12/2016 2:56:07 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: InkStone
Because I failed to do so, I made mistakes...

Better late than never.

48 posted on 11/12/2016 2:56:16 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Chickensoup

Wouldn’t have married my ex, of course I wouldn’t have my great kids (4).

Prolly should have just shot her when I first wanted to. I’d have been out by now.

All in all, I’m pretty happy.


49 posted on 11/12/2016 2:56:18 PM PST by umgud (ban all infidelaphobics)
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To: Chickensoup

eyes not tits


50 posted on 11/12/2016 2:56:27 PM PST by Eddie01 (Democrats are the Liquidate America Party)
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To: Chickensoup
I would have met my husband earlier. We were about two miles apart of years, probably passed each other in the store and other places multiple times and never met.

I would have ignored the people telling me to get a white collar job and gotten my certification as a master diesel mechanic.

I would have ignored that stupid OB-GYN who told me the problems I was having were normal and gotten one who knew what he was doing. Then our children would have had a chance to live.

That is pretty much it.

The third item is what I really regret. The rest is just life.

And God has given me a pretty good life.

51 posted on 11/12/2016 2:56:33 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

I’m with SoCal Pubbie. Where to start?


52 posted on 11/12/2016 2:56:41 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Chickensoup
I'm 70 now. I've made some major screw-ups, but most big decisions have turned out all right. I try to leave the past where it lies.

But, one thing I might have done is to persuade my wife to be a frugal person, as she was at the start of our marriage. Now, I see that I have enough money to satisfy all of my modest needs for the rest of my life, but not enough to satisfy her needs. So, I keep working and worrying about money. That seems crazy.

53 posted on 11/12/2016 2:56:55 PM PST by jumpingcholla34
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To: Chickensoup

Wow. Where do I start?


54 posted on 11/12/2016 2:57:44 PM PST by Wu (Excuse me while I kiss the sky......)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Most of the time,where women are concerned, We aren’t too sharp.


55 posted on 11/12/2016 2:57:47 PM PST by refermech
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To: Chickensoup

I would have approached school work as an opportunity to master material, not stuff I had to get done.


56 posted on 11/12/2016 2:58:02 PM PST by PrincessB
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To: Chickensoup
What Would You Have Done Differently in Life If You Knew What You Know Now?

Not much, because if you start to fork off the known path too soon, you are then on an all new completely unknown path, and any advantage you may have had due to your forknowledge is now gone and useless. Make sense?

I would stick to the script as much as possible and make a fortune :p

57 posted on 11/12/2016 2:58:51 PM PST by southern rock
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To: PrincessB

I would have approached school work as an opportunity to master material, not stuff I had to get done.
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I led a very task-oriented life too


58 posted on 11/12/2016 2:59:03 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against whites. Beware.)
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To: Menehune56

I would have posted more blogs and vanities in News/Activism and I would have spent more money on booze boats and broads.


59 posted on 11/12/2016 2:59:18 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: Chickensoup
There were a couple of relationships I would have approached differently. Instead of being so concerned with impressing people, I would have spent more time interviewing them to find out if they impressed me. This goes for boyfriends, girlfriends, and employers as well. But that knowledge came late with learning what I truly valued in life...and I didn't spend a lot of time sorting out my value system until after 9/11.
60 posted on 11/12/2016 3:00:09 PM PST by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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