To ask if you could go back in time is there anything that you would do differently?

[Cakeandbake229]

And if so how come?

I am currently trying to get a balance between having no life and trying to save for a house (I am late 20s) and trying to travel whilst I have little to no commitments (I am in a long term relationship).... it just made me wonder whether anyone can look back at their lives and say they would do anything differently?

Myself- a bit sad really but I regret getting so drunk when I was younger and putting myself in vulnerable situations, I rarely drink now other than the odd glass of wine of an evening!

Not put on weight

My life is generally blessed. DH, DCs and their partners are all wonderful and I would not change them. It's just those decisions which would have made us financially better off now like investing more in property or those personal ones like never getting this fat or unfit

I wouldn't have spent so much time trying to make it as creative artist. I wish I'd just gone straight for something that would make money.

I wouldn't have wasted so much time cultivating friends, because I've lost almost all of them now - all that wasted time and money, on events and weddings and parties, and all the rest of it.

No, I wish I'd just gone for the money.

This thread has me doing a bit of life-pondering and I keep coming back to it.

I’m so embarrassed to write this down but I regret spending as much as we did on our wedding. We could afford it all easily and it was a wonderfully happy day and DH and I are still very happy together, but it was a staggering sum of money spent for no obvious reason. I just got carried away.

I don’t think travel has that much to recommend it. I’ve been all over the world and again have very happy memories and great photos, but don’t think it has done much more for me than that. Certainly not broadened the mind or taught me other languages or cultures.

I really, really regret giving up my music and dance. Simple, joyful, confidence boosting pleasures.

Taken better care of my skin, not just on my face but also my hands.

Yes, make sure I passed my maths 0 level.
My life went pear shaped at that point.

I wouldn't have sexted my colleague whom I was really good friends with and whilst I'm engaged to my partner of 8 years. I wouldn't have got drunk and cried about it to friends and then it get back to the original guy and make me look like I am spreading shit around. Now I've shamed myself, I feel guilty which has made my depression worse, I am no contact with the guy who I was otherwise good friends with and I hate myself. I'm starting to forgive myself a bit and I am putting much more effort into my actual relationship and focusing on the important things more but I still dislike myself for doing it.

*got back to the colleague

Just one thing- have an elective c section with my first child. I had NO idea birth could leave me with such life changing injuries. I hope by the time I’m old and grey I won’t feel this way but unfortunately I think I may.

Dumped the ex, bought a house in London, lived there for a bit and then travelled the globe, getting away from my millstone of a family in the process.

Hindsight is a bitch and I hate her.