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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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FabulouslyFab · 15/12/2020 19:43

Any day when I was 18/19/20. I had loads of friends, a great social life, a job with prospects and lived at home with Mum, Dad and my little sister (who are all gone now). I would appreciate everything I had then so much more.

MarieInternette · 15/12/2020 19:44

Yes, I would go back to 1May last year. The day my daughter took her own life. I would have stopped her and held her close and kept her safe.

Maybe83 · 15/12/2020 19:47

I would have said my wedding day because it was so much fun and it went so quickly.

Now it would be the day my son passed away while pregnant. I would have woken my husband earlier and gone straight to the hospital when I thought there was something wrong. They said it would have made no difference to the outcome but I will always question myself would it.

Gingernaut · 15/12/2020 19:47

Going back to when I was 14.

I'd choose O Level Mathematics, instead of doing CSE Mathematics to stay with my friend and do O Level Physics instead of CSE Secondary Science.

jasjas1973 · 15/12/2020 19:51

I'd go back to the day when my partner died in an accident, we'd have gone shopping or stayed in bed anything but what happened.

It might have been 19 years ago but never has a day gone by when i haven't wished i could rewind.

16purplecolour16 · 15/12/2020 19:59

Any day when my two dc were pre-school. I would hug them and smile and laugh.

optimisticpessimist01 · 15/12/2020 20:03

My 20th birthday. It was the best day and most fun night out I've ever had. No particular reason why, I was just young and carefree and had no worries in life. I really wish I appreciated that time more

aeiouaeiouaeiou · 15/12/2020 20:06

The day I met my DH, I would have met him when I was younger, wouldn't have married my ex and I'd have had DH's children. Life would have been very different. As I say to my DH, there will never be enough days together!

fourquenelles · 15/12/2020 20:07

My biggest personal regret was the day I filled out my Oxbridge application. If I could go back I'd put Churchill College as my first choice not Girton. I passed the entrance exam but not well enough for Girton and I didn't know that Churchill never looked at their 2nd choice candidates (at that time). My life may have been very different if I had studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge. Maybe not better or worse but certainly different.

Europilgrim · 15/12/2020 20:13

I didn't get into Girton either. If I could go back in time, I would get someone to help me understand Oxbridge entrance better as my comp was completely clueless and everyone else there seemed to have been prepped by experts!

ThatDamnKrampus · 15/12/2020 20:15

The day my RE teacher took me to one side and asked me if everything was ok at home...If I could relive that moment again I would tell him no, it wasn't ok. I was 12 and angry and he was kind and cared Sad

I think my life and the choices I made later would have been very different.

paintedpanda · 15/12/2020 20:16

The day before my dad died I had gone to a friends house instead of going to see him in the hospital. I was very young and assumed I had time because he was getting better. He died the following day and I can't remember now when the last time I saw him conscious. I wish I could have that day again and do things right, tell him how much I love him.

Legalhelp · 15/12/2020 20:19

@16purplecolour16 That made me feel teary. I have a toddler and as hard as the days can be, I know I’ll think that one day.

x2boys · 15/12/2020 20:20

I'm not sure I want to relive any day ,I love both my boys to pieces but both births were horrendous ,I had a quiet and simple wedding day which was perfect for us but not spectacular ,would quite like to go back to my early 20,s when I was young free and single but completely skint as a student nurse

Changi · 15/12/2020 20:21

My wedding day.

winechateauxjoy · 15/12/2020 20:26

I could not pin point an exact day or year. But it would be one of the days on holiday with both of my dc. When the weather had been perfect, and we had gone out on an adventure - maybe to a local chateaux or the zoo. Then come back to the house and swam in the pool and had a lovely meal - maybe a bbq. Then played cards or dominos. And talked and laughed. I loved those days.

Warmhandscoldheart · 15/12/2020 20:32

I would go back to the day my husband proposed and say no.
I didn't know how much I enjoyed my life and privacy until I had to compromise to accommodate him.

EileenGC · 15/12/2020 20:38

The day I won the audition for my first proper job. More of a training scheme really, but I can't believe how much my life changed after that. My teacher (mentor - we still call them teachers in my industry, doesn't matter how old we/they are) completely changed how I approached my work and gave me so many opportunities to progress and come up with new ideas myself. She is the most wonderful, caring person and trusted me 100% from day one.

Audition day was stressful, physically and mentally exhausting and I only remember a few bits. My first clear memory is of all the other candidates going for drinks at the end of the day, I didn't feel like joining and went back to my hotel room. Stared at the walls for a few hours, trying to take in what had just happened. I remember who was in the photos they sent to the mutual FB group during the night (very niche industry - we all know each other 😂) but not much else. I didn't process it until 3 days later, when I was back in London and broke down in my then teacher's car. She asked me if something else, bad perhaps, had happened at the audition and I could only say 'I don't remember'. She let me cry for a long time, bless her.

heidbuttsupper · 15/12/2020 20:39

The day before my husband died

Fleurchamp · 15/12/2020 21:02

@StoneColdBitch this has happened to me, twice. My grandmother died minutes before I turned up for visiting and my FIL died when my MIL and SIL left the room having been at his bedside for 12 hours solid - it left me and DH with him. I honestly think he waited until MIL had left the room because he didn't want her to be there at that moment. She doesn't realise, she thinks she got back in time. She didn't.

InTheCludgie · 15/12/2020 21:05

The day after I sent my last text message to my DF. He was found dead at home a few days later and I regret not rushing round when he hadn't replied (even though he was usually crap at replying!). I don't know if he would have lived or not had one of us got to him sooner but doesn't stop me wishing things had been different

ilikebooksandplants · 15/12/2020 21:11

I would relive the day I spent on Bondi Beach. I was travelling Australia by myself and it was August so ‘winter’ there (although still 29 degrees!) so the beach was almost empty. I didn’t speak to anyone all day, and watched the sun set drinking a glass bottle of lager. It was the perfect day.

InTheNightWeWillWish · 15/12/2020 21:16

My wedding day. Loads of things went wrong but I wouldn’t change any of those. By our second anniversary, I’d lost 3 relatives. One died a couple of months after our wedding. They were fine at the wedding and I thought we had loads of time in the future. I’d hug my relatives. Then hug them again. And probably a few more times. I’d hire another photographer, just to grab even more photos and a videographer to get videos of them talking and laughing.

PomWestie · 15/12/2020 21:21

I was 12 and adored horses. My parents were poor and couldn't afford riding lessons. However, there was a local lady who had a yard and stables next to some woods and bridleways. I think people with horses and ponies paid to keep them there and she would look after them. She used to offer very basic lessons and a go on a horse for very little money and some mucking out in return. I used to go and help every Saturday and patiently wait all day for a 10 minute riding lesson on one of the ponies at the end of the day.

One gloriously sunny autumn Saturday I arrived at her yard and there was a group of girls there with their own ponies who were going out on a hack. The owner asked if I would like to join them with one of the spare ponies. The girls were all really lovely and encouraged me to come along with them. It was absolutly fabulous and so thrilling. Riding through the woods and taking in all the autumn colours and sounds All the horses galloping together when we reached open land. Jumping over logs and streams that crossed our path. I felt like I was in heaven. I felt full of complete and utter joy and didn't want it to end. 38 years on I can still remember the feeling like it was yesterday.

Very shortly after that day my family moved to a city and I never rode a horse again. I've had lots of wonderful and amazing things happen in my life (like getting my degree, meeting my DH, having children etc.) but have never felt that sense of pure unadulterated joy again.

Guineapigbridge · 15/12/2020 21:34

The day I stopped in to see my nana in her nursing home. It was the first time I'd visited. I was so selfish, being 20-something, and oh so busy. I hardly even spoke with her. I didn't really even ask her how she was.

She died before I saw her again. I'm sorry Nana.

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