If you could turn back the clock?

[Happyinheels]

What would you do differently if you could turn back the clock? I don't mean regrets or anything, just would you do anything differently?

I'll start:

• I probably would study something different at uni, more job specific.
• I would have travelled more before having kids.
• I would have stayed in my marriage because the carnage is catastrophic and has destroyed so many lives.

No regrets, just things I would do differently if I could turn the clock back.

I would have travelled more before children, I would have worked harder at school to reap the benefit of education -ironic as I have been a teacher all my life. I would have liked to have chosen my DPs better, but then that would mean my 3 lovely DCs wouldn't be the same.

Pretty much everything, my life is a horrible mistake tbh.

I had a place on some vocational training which I turned down to move to another city and marry DH.

I really wish I'd stuck it out for another year and done the training as it would be a really useful qualification for me to have now. I could kick my young self tbh!!

Although it would have meant I didn't have the dc that I have so...

Im with green, my entire life's a traincrash.

I would have said 'oui' rather than 'non' to the handsome French boy who tried it on with me at a smart Parisian dinner party 20 years ago.

Stupidly I was being faithful to my ENGLISH boyfriend back home but OMG the Frenchman was hot and I have often thought of him and wished I'd gone there.

No idea why English has gone in caps

I would have eaten better and exercised as a teen, to improve my confidence and avoid feeling like “the fat one” as I was growing up.

I would have lived on my own for a while.

I would have been more open to new things and not let feeling anxious stop me from taking (reasonable) risks.

I would have studied something different at uni. I've just landed my dream job but I could have done it when I was much younger rather than bouncing from one crap job to another.

I would have made much better financial decisions/saved more.

I would love to start over.

Age 11 onwards would be ok.

I would have worked harder at school and uni and watched my weight a lot more. Also a couple of one night stands I cringe at!!

I would stand up to my father , when he made me give up my daughter for adoption at 16

and nearly 50 years later I am still hurting everyday

I would have broken up with my bf before Uni.

We broke up afterwards anyway, he cheated on after I'd taken an overdose and generally we were just very really happy or really unhappy for the entire time.

foxyliz26

Only one thing; followed the advice given by 111.

I'd have tried to fit in less as a teen, what a fool I was.

I would have said no to the committee position.

I wish I'd never taken that credit card.

I'd finish my degree.

Leave my ex H after the birth of my second child but before the nervous breakdown he drove me to.
Work harder at my army career instead of treating it long something rather fun but not to be taken seriously. There were so many opportunities I missed.