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Just For Fun- What would you change about yourself....

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B4Beatrice · 12/04/2011 16:09

....excluding physical attributes?

Obviously we all be slimmer, taller, prettier etc.

But what else?

I'd like to just be a bit happier with the here and now. Just live life and not always be striving for something (most of the time I'm not really sure what anyway).

I would also like to be a little more graceful when under pressure!

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FellatioNels0n · 12/04/2011 17:59

I'd like longer less lardy legs and straighter nicer whiter teeth.

I'd like to talk less and be better at time management/more motivated.

trice · 12/04/2011 17:59

I would like to not have a life limiting illness.

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B4Beatrice · 12/04/2011 17:59

Thanks cheeky monkey!

Is it bad that all of the things you have mentioned could be on my list.

Especially procrastinating!

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pranma · 12/04/2011 18:12

I'd love to be able to sing in tune[thats the light one]
I'd love not to have had cancer [that's the heavy one]

Insomnia11 · 12/04/2011 18:19

I'd like to work less, or differently anyway, sleep better, have sex more often with DH, be less moody, for my mild depression to go away entirely, stop procrastinating so much and to have a normal BMI. All these things are kind of interrelated - if I'm not careful I can get into a vicious circle. If I can sort the first one out it may help the rest somewhat...

fotheringhay · 12/04/2011 18:32

I'd like to let go of old (childhood) grievances, they follow me around for some reason. I need to unravel it really...

Mamazonhereggsclucking · 12/04/2011 18:50

I wouldn't want to be taller! Opposite in fact.

I have had to really think about this. That sounds quite vain but i don't mean it to be. I firmly believe that each incident, however horrible it seems at the time, has helped me become who i am. had lead me to be where i am.

The only personality trait i can think of that i would rather not have is my emotional stuntedness. I know why i have it and i know what caused it, and i am working hard to try and make sure it doesn't get passed to my children.
I would love to be able to just be open and honest about my feelings with people.

PunkPixie · 12/04/2011 19:39

I was going to say I'd fix my eyesight but I'd not be the same person I am without the struggles I've faced (and still face) through it. I probably would't have the same neuroses either, having said that!

I'm working on changing me all the time. Anything I can do to be a better person for my kids to look up to.

onceamai · 12/04/2011 19:56

I wish I could be a bit less honest and bit more two faced.
I wish I had been able to have more children.
I wish I was less of a control freak.
I wish I had always realised when the DC were upset

MarianneM · 12/04/2011 20:03

I'd like to be more confident.
I'd like to be more intelligent.
I'd like to be less frightened of things.
I'd like to be less bad-tempered.
I'd like to be kinder.

But I'm happy, really! It's all about moderate expectations.

stillbroody · 12/04/2011 20:04

I'd like to enjoy spending extended periods of time with the kids.
Longer than 2 weeks and I can't wait to get back to work, I know that's awful.

wobblyweeble82 · 12/04/2011 20:08

Cor, what I'd give for just an ounce of will-power. That would improve probably all aspects of my life one way or another.

YouaretooniceNOT · 12/04/2011 20:10

To feel OK with ME! To beable to trust a man again after just meeting liar after liar. To bebale to stop feeling down as i do not feel ok with ME!

To feel OK with myself enough to socialise again, at a sports club. To feel confident enought o go to college/uni.

To stop letting other peoples' issues affect me/get me so down. To stop feeling scared of the world and fearing betrayal and confusion by people.

To stop worrying about what my stupid neighbour thinks of me.

LaurieFairyCake · 12/04/2011 20:13

I'd like half of people to dislike me on sight

then acquaintances would all stop whining on to me about their lives for ages while I look sympathetic

I'd get a lot of hours back

Shodan · 12/04/2011 20:34

I'd love to be able to just go to bed and go to sleep, like DH does.

His head's on the pillow for 5 seconds and he's asleep. Whereas I'm there, an hour (minimum) later, still reading/ tossing and turning/looking at the clock thinking 'If I go to sleep now I'll have six hours' sleep.

Other than that, I'm actually very happy.

FellatioNels0n · 13/04/2011 07:03

I think you are spot on there Mamazon. We are all shaped (not physically obviously) by every little thing that happens to us, and I know certainly that I for every negative trait that can be blamed on some bit of angst from our past, or some seemingly small but hurtful thing that someone said years ago that has screwed us up for years, there will be a character strength there as a result of the same things.

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