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If you could re-live one day of your life...

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Juliancantcope · 15/12/2020 17:02

If you had the power to go back and live one day (and one day only) of your life again which one would it be and why? Would you change anything you did or use the day to change a future outcome in any way?

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LegoPandemic · 15/12/2020 17:06

Wedding day.
No just live it again- it was brilliant

Lurkingforawhile · 15/12/2020 17:18

This is really dull, but my a-level results day. 18 years old, felt invincible. Then got very drunk with friends in a cheesy nightclub. Wouldn't change anything.

Sideorderofchips · 15/12/2020 17:23

I would live the day i became friends with the woman who wrecked my life.

Just so I could prevent it happening.

Amerimoon · 15/12/2020 17:26

I would relive my wedding day and enjoy it again.

Europilgrim · 15/12/2020 17:27

Wedding day for me too. Went by so fast!

Bumble84 · 15/12/2020 17:30

Bit cringey but the day I met my now DH, I can’t remember a thing of what we talked about over 2 coffees, I just knew I had to see him again.

Crunchymum · 15/12/2020 17:30

Any day that my mum was still alive.

Gazelda · 15/12/2020 17:30

I'd love to re-live the day I gave birth. I have very few memories of it which makes me so sad.

And I'd insist on more skin-to-skin in the hope bonding came easier to us.

And I'd get more photos of me, DH and our baby. The only one I have of Day 1 is of me sitting on the bed with my legs not quite together. The pic is a birds eye view up my nightie until it reaches a dark, shadowing place.

Brakebackcyclebot · 15/12/2020 17:30

I would go back to 1998 and dump my boyfriend the first time he was unfaithful, instead of marrying him and then going through it all over again 10 years later.

Chimeraforce · 15/12/2020 17:32

Wouldn't have continued with pregnancy. My life has been worse since in all ways and my mental health is shot. I'm a shell.

Angel2702 · 15/12/2020 17:33

I would love to go back and relive just one childhood Christmas Day.

LivingMyBestLife2020 · 15/12/2020 17:34

Mine would be birth as well. I don’t really remember much of it. It became an emergency situation (although calm) and it just wish I could go back and experience it again, with the experience of hindsight

LunaAzul · 15/12/2020 17:36

DS's birth for me. I would have shouted at the midwife that I was right and something was wrong. Instead of going with what an "expert" said and maybe I would have remembered his birth instead of having a crash c section under GA.

Europilgrim · 15/12/2020 17:38

I would love to go back and relive just one childhood Christmas Day.
That would be lovely - have to choose the right one though as some were awful!

I would quite like to go back to the day I gave birth and insist that actually I don't want to be induced without pain relief and then maybe I would enjoy it a bit more.

Thinkingg · 15/12/2020 17:41

20th birthday. At uni, had a big party, the weather was gorgeous, I felt so sophisticated drinking Pimms and smoking a cigar that someone gave me. The memory glows with happiness and relaxation.

loutypips · 15/12/2020 17:42

The day before my mum died. I'd hug and kiss her and tell her how much I loved her.

TheNortherner · 15/12/2020 17:44

I had an emergency c-section under GA for my first, no way would.i want to pick that as a day to go back to!
Also had a cheating husband (now ex) maybe I would pick when we went somewhere high up, which we did quite a few times mountains/towers and instead push him off Grin
Maybe that would be a waste though. I would relive any of my more hedonistic days and I've had a few Smile

DartmoorChef · 15/12/2020 17:44

Any day that both my parents were still alive. I miss them terribly.

twinklespells · 15/12/2020 17:45

The day I had my baby. Only five months ago, but I'd love to go back to it.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 15/12/2020 17:52

I honestly have no idea! Not my wedding day as I'm divorced. Not the day DS was born - much as I love him, I had a horrible labour and never want to do that again.

Possibly a day pre husband and pre DS, when I was young and carefree.

PussyMalanga · 15/12/2020 17:53

I feel bad admitting this, as it isn't my wedding day or my DD's birth. It was a day I had when I was living in Beijing working in publishing. I had an affair with a female author, and we spent the day going around the city followed by sex in her hotel room.

LovingCountryLife · 15/12/2020 17:58

Can I have two...

First date with DH
Wedding Day (seems like a dream now)

Fredelliottisayfredelliott · 15/12/2020 17:59

Really had to think about this, not my wedding day ( lovely as it was) or the births of my children ( traumatic) I'd go back to a day when I was about 15 , seeing my favourite band in concert with all my friends, just being deliriously happy and nothing else mattered. I've surprised myself but I think that was the happiest time of my life

foxyknoxy30 · 15/12/2020 18:00

The day my mum died she was in hospital and I misses her passing by minutes, the guilt I feel is horrendous 😕

Imarriedaviking · 15/12/2020 18:10

The last time I saw my son alive.

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