To ask if you were able to go back in time, even just for an hour, would you?

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Let's pretend we live in a world where we all had a button. It could only be used once, and upon pressing it could never be used again. But upon activation you'd have the opportunity to go back in time, to rewrite personal history, even only if for a relatively brief moment.

Considering your life now, would you press it?

After some recent bereavements I've thought a lot about how I would like to, but obviously life doesn't work like that. On the other hand, perhaps our lives work best knowing that life is not a rehearsal, and we can live with regret and learn from it, but never rewrite them.

I would spend the hour with my papa.

Nothing major, but would pop back to when my dc where 6 months old and have an hour again with them as babies. Lovely baby cuddles.

No. You wouldn’t be the person you are today if you could do that.

Change one small thing and you may never be married to the same person, you may never have had kids etc.

Anyone who likes their life now would be a fool to choose such a choice.

I'd spend the hour with my dad who died in December. I miss him so much.

Same @thebear1 , I'd just want an hour cuddling those babies they used to be

No I wouldn't change anything.

Even the awful parts of my life have helped to shape who I am, and I rather like me!

I'd go back to when DS was a newborn, proper newborn. I had a rough delivery and don't remember much from his first 24 hours apart from being terrified of the pain and birth injuries.

@speakout

Wise words. 💐

I'd go back to my Dads last birthday. It wasnt a special birthday, we just had a Chinese at mum and dads & birthday cake. He died unexpectedly 3 weeks later & it was the last time we were all together

Yes to the night I waited a hour to pick up my bf. We had only been dating a week. 15 years later, I'm still waiting for him all the time. I wish I had driven back home and called it a day.

Fascinating thread! I'd go back to being 9. - but without the benefit of hindsight I'd make all the same mistakes.
If I did have that benefit would be so much bolder and more adventurous.

I'd go back 10 years and make an appointment for a health check for late dh who died 2 years ago

I'd go back to the second house we owned, and not agree to selling it. It's a decision both dh and I regret immensely.

No.

Everything that has happened to me in my life good and bad has made me the imperfect person I am now.

I’d go back in time to meet my grandpa. He died of cancer before I was born.

I'd go back a few weeks before lockdown to visit a dear friend I hadn't seen for too long who's recently passed away. Even just an hour would do.

Loving this.

I would have somehow told my younger self to stay away from my ex. I ended up wasting most of my twenties on him in an emotionally abusive relationship (though I couldn’t see it at the time).

But being with him brought me to my current DH who is a wonderful, kind, caring man and we have a wonderful DC together. So whilst I wish sometimes I could gave saved myself years of heartache and emotional abuse, I wouldn’t be where I am now if that hadn’t happened.

I would make sure my mother could meet her mother before she died. It had been ten years since my mum and gran met. My gran's husband delayed things and I didn't push hard enough and then it was too late.

just had a little tear seeing a couple of PP have gone through similar to me.
Love Reading this thread.

Sending hugs @Connie222
Its so awful to look back and wish things had been done differently, when the outcome was really no fault of your own