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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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KnowingMeKnowingYule · 15/12/2020 21:42

@PomWestie

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.

Beautiful 😊❤️

I've name changed but I felt exactly the same playing in my youth orchestra on a balmy summer evening in Portugal as I said before. So vivid.

Mehbloodymeh · 15/12/2020 21:46

I'd go back a few weeks to a day i had a job interview which I should have nailed but didn't because I didn't sell myself apparently in the skills question.

I'd sell the sell the living daylights out of myself and blast the interview.
Just that really.

Shuffled · 15/12/2020 21:47

I'd go back 7 months and warm my friend she was about to die (and do something about it).

IdblowJonSnow · 15/12/2020 21:49

Mine was when I was travelling, definitely happiest time in terms of sheer hedonism and freedom. Being with friends I'd made who became very close friends for many years in beautiful places.

Seeing humming birds on the top of a mountain was pretty amazing.

sobsanta · 15/12/2020 21:53

The day after my wedding. We were on holiday, just the two of us having a great time. I'd change how horrendously drunk DH ended up which meant he retired to bed early (9pm in Vegas is like lunch time) while I carried on exploring with new friends we'd met that afternoon. I would love DH to have been with us - we had a blast.

OhToBeASeahorse · 15/12/2020 21:55

My wedding day. I looked awful, he photos were all wrong, I didn't enjoy it - I'd love to have the chance to do it again

Moondust001 · 15/12/2020 21:58

27th February 2020. I would not have got on the plane back to the UK!

pinkdragons · 15/12/2020 22:00

When I was 15 and the first day I had with the boy who turned out to be my first love.
It felt so crazy and electric. I felt sick with nerves and elated at the same time. He touched my hand I thought I was going to die. It was like tripping out on drugs.

15 years later I still think about that crazy day and the weeks and months that followed.

Bloodybridget · 15/12/2020 22:00

Twenty years ago when I and a couple of friends organised an amazing party.

OffredOfjune · 15/12/2020 22:01

@Sideorderofchips

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

Just so I could prevent it happening.

Exactly the same here, though mine was a male. Regret it almost daily
PomWestie · 15/12/2020 22:01

Thank you @KnowingMeKnowingYule

We must of both had a Ichi-go ichi-e moment

(Japanese: "one time, one meeting") Ichi-go-ich-e is a Japanese four-character idiom (yojijukugo) that describes a cultural concept of treasuring the unrepeatable nature of a moment. The term has been translated as "for this time only," and "once in a lifetime." The term reminds people to cherish any gathering that they may take part in, citing the fact that any moment in life cannot be repeated; even when the same group of people get together in the same place again, a particular gathering will never be replicated, and thus each moment is always a once-in-a-lifetime experience. From Wikipedia

moanyhole · 15/12/2020 22:06

Any night santa was coming as a child. The utter amazement at him flying in the sky with the presents and coming down the chimney. Even now at 47 I just have to think of it and still feel the excitement and magic.

Greenbks · 15/12/2020 22:21

The day my baby was born prematurely and lived for around 45 minutes. It was also the worst day of my life but I wish I could go back and hold and kiss him and shake myself out of shock faster and enjoy every second of being with him.

SheldonesqueIsUnwell · 15/12/2020 22:27

I probably should pick one of a load more days.

But this is the one I cannot get by.

The last 24 hrs I spent with my girl. I would realise that she was dying and I wouldn’t have slept. I would have called for help earlier and the outcome might have been different.
And I would have told her a million times more how much I loved her.
And she wouldn’t have died without me there.

DuzzyFuck · 15/12/2020 22:27

Wedding day for me too, except I'd change it by not going Hmm

RandyGiles06 · 15/12/2020 22:32

The day we went to Magic Kingdom, it was just perfect in every way. I’d love to go back and relive it, especially as this time I’d know I was pregnant with our first DC Xmas Smile

justanotherneighinparadise · 15/12/2020 22:40

I honestly have no idea!!!! Probably a Christmas Eve when I was young. The excitement was incredible.

tenlittlecygnets · 15/12/2020 22:59

@MarieInternette 💐

What a lot of sad and poignant posts on here.

colouringindoors · 15/12/2020 22:59

A day many years ago, before I was married. I wasn't sure about my relationship and phoned a friend. I was trying to articulate that he rarely "got" me or what I was saying. She said very kindly that maybe he wasn't right for me.

But I would have been alone without him, unhappily back at home after uni with friends across the country. So I stayed with him. And married him. And now 25 years later am divorcing him after a decade of hell.

I totally understand the decision I made all those years ago, but wish (despite 2 dcs who I love very dearly but who are also damaged by the last 10 years too) that I had been able to end things with him then.

Charcutaria · 15/12/2020 23:06

21st of July 1976, I'd tell my 19 year old brother that there's a great big skip there, on the road with no lights on. I'd say, I know that you weren't drunk, the post mortem made that clear. Why the fuck did you hit that and die.

FatGirlShrinking · 15/12/2020 23:12

Sorry, this will bring the thread down, but the day my mum killed herself, I would stop her.

ClaireP20 · 15/12/2020 23:15

I had great sex with my ex - one day we did it 4 times and each time was amazing. Now I'm married with 3 kids to a husband who could take it or leave it, and who I have to ask to have sex with me, I would absolutely love to go back to one fun filled day with the ex.

ClaireP20 · 15/12/2020 23:16

@FatGirlShrinking

Sorry, this will bring the thread down, but the day my mum killed herself, I would stop her.
Oh God I am so sorry xx
Oliversmumsarmy · 15/12/2020 23:22

A particular day in 2004. I made a decision with my head and should have gone with my gut.
My life would have been so different

HelplessProcrastinator · 15/12/2020 23:31

The day I got my degree result, a 2.1 I Biology (in 1995 when it was harder to achieve). No one was more surprised than me. I was such an under achiever with low self esteem. It was the first time I achieved something worthwhile. I had to queue at a telephone box with the rest of my course to tell my parents. I was the first person in my family to attend university. I failed to get a job because I didn’t know how to network and interview but I’ve done OK for myself now (qualified accountant). I was so proud of myself and full of optimism that now.