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    .... (say your post high school early 20's age) would you changes things at all? What would you want to do again?
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    Hmm, Im 35/6 and still feel like a teenager. I feel there's still pleanty of time to do anything I choose. No regrets worth mentioning. I wouldnt mind maybe doing some of the travelling again and possibly settling somewhere else, but it's a much of a muchness really - I can still do that. I dont think I'd change anything I did from that period of my life except I should have taken up stripping then as mentioned in another thread (-:

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    Well I still am in my early 20's and I started high school at age 11, left at age 15 and started college at age 15 also so I don't know if that count's? However I hated high school with a passion (was an all-girls school) and spent from age 14 till age 17 in a state of depression (age 11 to 13 was da bomb!) but I wouldn't change it for the world if it meant that I wouldn't be the person that I am today!

    High School back home in the UK is not like it is here in the US. Y'know here (U.S) you guy's have proms, home coming, pep rally's, no school uniform and the whole cheerleader/jock thing going on not to mention celebratory graduations. Well it ain't like that back home. You go to school learn and leave...DONE.

    I don't regret the things that i have done, it is the things that i haven't done (yet) that I regret.. but hey it's never to late huh

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    Change major in college
    Travelled to Europe and backpacked before I got into my career

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    I'm 24 now but this this is the only thing I think I missed:
    Never went to prom-Pregnant
    never drank myself silly at 21-pregnant
    But i wouldn't change the outcome for anything in the world. My two beautiful children are quite possibly the only things I did right and that I'm truley proud of.

    oh and- I still don't have the courage to dance.

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    I've often considered, what if I could redo or change... knowing what I do now. The only thing that stops me is the price of that change, you see I could find a way to do most of those things I want now. I just don't want to pay the price. For me changing key events in the past, incurs almost the same price as doing it now. So there is no point in chaning the past, beacause the price is the same reagardless.

    If I could do something to help someone else? I'd find a way to prevent my father from needing an artifical humerous bone. That is not for my benefit, and to me would not cause any cost I can envision. Sure there are unintended consequences with any change, but at least that I feel that change is worthy.

    A minor detail... I would have specialized in something more marketable than my computer skills. That desire could change soon though. Perhaps they will have value again.
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    Ok I'm a dumb dumb I just made a post about high school when you were asking about post high school... my bad!

    Ok well I just turned 23 but so far I don't regret a thing! I have had to over come a lot of shit in my short life but it has turned me in to a strong young women always striving for the best! I lived a wild life and had the whole college experience in my teens, I have a kick ass resume as i have worked GREAT jobs which has also enabled me to met some pretty cool people and will most definitely help me in my future career, I have travelled to 8 different countries in 4 different continents, I moved to the other side of the world all by myself at age 21 and got married to my soul mate (yes they do exist) at age 22. Right now I am now living in my cosy apartment over looking the Hudson River and Manhattan skylight (one of my many dream's) and I have only just started!

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    Everything I've done in life made me the person I am today. While I still have a lot of learning and living to do...I'm very happy with where I am and who I am...so no, I wouldn't change a thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yung1
    I'm 24 now but this this is the only thing I think I missed:
    Never went to prom-Pregnant
    never drank myself silly at 21-pregnant
    But i wouldn't change the outcome for anything in the world. My two beautiful children are quite possibly the only things I did right and that I'm truley proud of.

    oh and- I still don't have the courage to dance.
    That is so sweet. Being a mother is such a blessing i don't think that ANYTHING in the world compares. I know that I won't be complete untill i have children.


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    I woundn't have 'wasted' several years working at a 'straight job' before I started dancing !

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    Quote Originally Posted by cherryripeboy
    I've often considered, what if I could redo or change... knowing what I do now. The only thing that stops me is the price of that change, you see I could find a way to do most of those things I want now. I just don't want to pay the price. For me changing key events in the past, incurs almost the same price as doing it now. So there is no point in chaning the past, beacause the price is the same reagardless.
    So true. I am going to save this for my wall of quotes. Thank you
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    I wouldn't want to be. If i was i'd steer high clear of a girl named Carmen. And if that happened i'd not have ever met my son. Crap as it was at times, there were good times as well. And i came to a good place as it is.

    Besides, change anything change everything. What if i was able to do something i'd always wanted to do and fast forward to today and i'm in a pine box buried six feet deep?

    Nah, things happened the way they did for a reason. I'm cool with that. I often love my life as it is now.

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    No, I wouldnt. Bad stuff happens but its what brings the best lessons and the strongest changes in yourself. I mean, there might be a few things but it wouldnt make you who you are now if you changed them, and if your unhappy with something just change now or try to work out why your unhappy, could just be a fear or something you need to deal with.

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    well i'm only 22, but if i could change some things from my past...

    i wouldn't have wasted my first two years as a stripper. i wasted so much fucking money on drugs, partying, hotel rooms, clothes, and just random crap, that it makes me feel sick to think about it. yeah i had a lot of fun, but i wish i'd at least saved a bit of cash from those days!

    hmm, i suppose there's a few other things i regret, but i don't really know if i'd change it. i'm really, really, unbelievably happy with my life right now and it's never been better, and even though there are some things i regret, changing them would change my life and who i am now, and i wouldn't want that. even though i made some mistakes and had to endure some shitty things, it's because of those things that i ended up where i am now.

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    I have no regrets. Those things had to happen. Without divorce, I would.mt have Michael. I can't complain


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    I wouldnt of changed much I like the way things have turned out and thats the way life is its much more interesting to me to be out on that limb . But you change with age ( at least I have ) . I seem to process things a little more before jumping into them feet first .

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    Quote Originally Posted by VenusGoddess
    Everything I've done in life made me the person I am today. While I still have a lot of learning and living to do...I'm very happy with where I am and who I am...so no, I wouldn't change a thing.
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    I do wish I would have been more motivated. Looking back now I think gee, what could I have accomplished if I'd only had the drive and discipline. Instead of toughing it out and really going for my dreams...I became a stripper. But really all in all I'm very happy with my life and glad the way things turned out.

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    There are one or two things I would have changed (guy-related). But, otherwise no way. Things could have turned out much worse.
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    my first instinct is to say that I would have started dancing earlier. I could have saved a lot of money and maybe done more with my time - traveled etc. I would also have taken better care of myself, in a lot of ways. But I'll say the same thing a lot of you have said, my past brought me to this moment today, so I think everything happens for a reason.

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    When I was younger I was too nice. I was taken advantage of by a lot of people and generally allowed myself to be a door mat. I would have stood up for myself more often, and not worried so much what other people thought of me.

    My "friends" would always do crappy stuff, like sleep with my boyfriend or steal money from me or ruin my things that they borrowed. I was so worried that they wouldn't like me that I let them get away with it.

    I wish I would have grown a spine sooner. I was abused by men also. By the time I became a dancer, I just didn't give a crap what anyone thought of me anymore.


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    Minor things...I wish I'd switched staright into sciences in Uni, instead of finishing my English BA and then going back. But that's pretty small potatoes.

    I wish I'd worked smarter my first few years of dancing- for the amount of time I put in, I should have made way more. But I didn't know it at the time.

    Just minor things, but if it changed who I was today, then no, I wouldn't go back.

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