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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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StoneColdBitch · 15/12/2020 18:15

@foxyknoxy30 I'm a doctor; in my experience, people often wait until they're alone to die. I absolutely believe it's deliberate. Patients often hang on for hours then pass away when their relative leaves them for a minute to nip to the loo. Please don't feel guilty.

nevertrustaherdofcows · 15/12/2020 18:19

"@foxyknoxy30 I'm a doctor; in my experience, people often wait until they're alone to die. I absolutely believe it's deliberate. Patients often hang on for hours then pass away when their relative leaves them for a minute to nip to the loo. Please don't feel guilty."

This

AgeLikeWine · 15/12/2020 18:23

The day I got my A level results. That bit of paper changed my life, and I still have it.

I grew up on a shithole council estate in a dump of an ex-mining town and went to a bog-standard comp. Achieving the grades I needed to get into a good university was my golden ticket out of it, and I never really went back.

Purplewithred · 15/12/2020 18:24

The day I said yes to the solicitor pressurising me to buy a flat, which turned out to have horrific legal problems, which led to a combination of vulnerablilty and loss of confidence, which also threw me in the path of XDH who I married despite my own doubts.

I would go back and say No, except then I wouldn't have my wonderful children. So it's a good thing it's not a choice I have to make.

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Juliancantcope · 15/12/2020 18:25

I had exactly the same experience with my dad Foxy. He’d been In hospital for a few months and we knew he was dying. Mum and me had been visiting on alternate days. He’d been sleeping most of the time in the last week. On the 7th May Mum left him in the early evening and we got a call from
The ward in the early hours of the 8th to say he was slipping away. We headed over to the hospital as quickly as we could but arrived about 20 minutes after he had passed - he was still warm and I felt like he was just sleeping. He had a good death with his favourite music playing, plenty of pain relief and wonderful nursing staff but I wish I’d been with him telling him what a wonderful father he was and how much I loved him. I think some people find it too hard to pass away with their family around them though and choose to slip away quietly in the early hours.

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CoronaIsWatching · 15/12/2020 18:26

The day before 9/11 so I could try and stop it

MrsBrunch · 15/12/2020 18:27

The day I had my first cigarette. I would change it and not smoke.

Took years before I was finally able to stop.

trappedsincesundaymorn · 15/12/2020 18:31

The day DD was born. after several miscarriages and 2 still borns the sound of her cry was the most beautiful thing I have ever heard.

HMSBeagle · 15/12/2020 18:33

The day I gave birth to my eldest child. The labour and post birth bit. I had pre eclampsia and baby was stuck so had vontouse. It was traumatic at the time, but possibly one of the best days of my life.

For various reasons. One of them being the part where you gaze at them and wonder what they will become. In hindsight, a normal healthy child and all innocence that they was all I needed to wish for, before I was later introduced to world of SEN with his siblings.

I remember thinking "did I really just give birth?" Would love to go back and put myself on the back and reassure myself I had this, I would be enough.

Such lovely memories

user1493413286 · 15/12/2020 18:36

The day I got engaged I’d love to live again; my wedding was great but so full of other people whereas the day we got engaged was just about us.
I’d also love to go back to the Christmas Day before my dad got ill and enjoy it for the day it was before everything changed.
I’ve made some poor decisions but I wouldn’t want to go back and change those in case I then didn’t end up with my DH and having our DC.

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Juliancantcope · 15/12/2020 18:37

I wish I could go back to the day I first cracked open the envelope on my first credit card and give myself a good talking to. I got into serious debt in my 20’s which took years to shift and had implications on so many things. I fell off the housing ladder to pay back lenders and by the time I’d got rid of the debt the property market had boomed to the point it was impossible to start again.

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AnnieKennyfanclub · 15/12/2020 18:38

I’d go back to a wonderful day when I was just 20. Riding with my best friend. I remember jumping an enormous ditch and want to see if it really was that big. Only this time the sun would shine and we would stop and spend some time with the gorgeous shirtless lads building a wall on the way home.

Thank you for this thread OP nice chance to reminisce about a day almost forgotten.

SlopesOff · 15/12/2020 18:40

I would go back to the day I met H and not meet him.
I have lived through a lot of crap in my life but nothing as bad as the last 20 years.

user1493413286 · 15/12/2020 18:42

@foxyknoxy30 I always felt like my dad chose to pass away after we’d gone home to sleep for a few hours before coming back. It’s reassuring to hear from @StoneColdBitch that it’s quite normal for that to happen

Thisbastardcomputer · 15/12/2020 18:44

My 21st, it was a working day and I worked at the family business, they'd put bunting up in the street and we didn't melt that day (steel works). We had an all day party with loads of food and booze, all the reps came and I got presents, all the neighbouring businesses came over, a superb memorable day which I doubt anyone else ever had, sadly not a single photo.

GreenLeafTurnip · 15/12/2020 18:45

The day my son was born. It was unexpected (by 5 weeks) but it was the best day of my life and I would love to experience it again.

yearinyearout · 15/12/2020 18:47

The day before lockdown when I saw my grandmother in a care home and told her I wouldn't see her for "a few weeks". I'd spend the whole afternoon there, bake her favourite cake and tell her all the reasons she was so special to me. Sadly she died during lockdown and I suspect she would've forgotten why we hadn't been visiting, and just thought we'd abandoned her.

squashyhat · 15/12/2020 18:48

The day I first went to New York. Seeing that iconic skyline as we flew in was an amazing experience. Mind you I have been back several times and it never fails to thrill. Can't wait to see it again.

BenoneBeauty · 15/12/2020 18:53

My wedding day or the day of my 40th birthday party (wasn't on my actual birthday). Both days were amazing and surrounded by so many friends and family members!

Thelikelylass · 15/12/2020 18:56

The night of my 40th. I had a huge party, everyone I loved was there and now a decade later I have lost so many of those beautiful people. I would take time to kiss, hug and tell them what they meant to me.

Kokosrieksts · 15/12/2020 18:57

It would also be the Wedding day. It was perfect.

Serin · 15/12/2020 18:58

Any of the ordinary days when I was a stay at home mum with 3 little ones following me around. It was like being on holiday everyday. Would love to be able to read them stories and cuddle up with them again.

Bourbonbiccy · 15/12/2020 18:59

Any day in the first 6months of my sons life when my mum as still here with us.

I would just let her hold him all day and video her telling him how much she loved him.

Record them together, take photos, I thought i had years for photos of them and thought that she could tell him herself just how long she had longed to be a nana and how she loved him with every breath, but that was stolen sadly.

ramblingsonthego · 15/12/2020 19:01

My last day with my dad when he was here for Christmas. They worked abroad and he died on the other side of the world in the April. I would give anything to have one more day with him. His death was totally out of the blue, I had spoken to him just 5 hours before and he was fine.

Liltzero · 15/12/2020 19:02

Probably the day I passed my PhD viva and had the joy of phoning family to tell them the good news. I think it was the last time I spoke to my beloved Grandad who died 6 days later.

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