If you could go back to 1983, what's the first thing you'd do?

[Sinat]

I'd buy a brand new Volvo 340 straight from the Volvo dealership

I would tell myself to chill a bit more! In 83 I was working hard to get a place at medical school. I put my whole life aside for the dream.. I got that place but the cost emotionally was huge. If I could go back further I would like to stop the awful dynamics between my parents which made my life a misery that took years and years to recover from. .. but if I could stop that then I wouldn’t be here! Life is so peculiar.

Persuade my mum not to have the operation that hastened her death.

Nice!

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Combining fantasies. Good one!

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Dump the useless shithead I was with at the time and work on my degree instead.

Take my eldest child to a child guidance therapist to find out why she was such a beast to her baby sister.

Ask my mum not to smoke in pregnancy or passive smoke after.

Seriously though, in 1983 a 3br house on my street cost £32k. Even with mortgage rates of 15% and average wages of early 90s it's still far more doable than today. I wish I had bought a house as a 19yr old instead of carefully and responsibly locking my 7k up in a fixed rate bond. That was how the well

Stab my childhood bully before they got too big.

Kiss MW in my class - it was only years later that I discovered he had fancied me too.

Ignore the teacher who told me I couldn’t be an …... And follow my dream

Run to my Nans house and give her the biggest hug!

Slap my mum upside the head and tell her to leave my dad and not wait another ten years.

Tell my parents to remove me from
a school that was full of pedophiles (teachers) and bullies (children and teachers).

Hug my dad who died a year ago. Get him to dance me around the room like he used to.

Take a Sports Almanac from about 1999 back with me and tell my younger self to keep it hidden. Buy my younger self ALL the My Little Ponies and a Rough collie puppy. Tell my grandmother to get a mastectomy.

Probably exactly what I did at 00:01 on 1 st January 1983. Say ˋyes’ when my DH proposed to me in front of 30,000 people at Trafalgar Square

Stop smoking

1. Cuddle my 4 year old and 2 year old children. Not so easy now they are in their forties!
2. Ring my Mum. I cant do it anymore and I miss her so much

Not move in with my abusive bf & save myself 11 years of being a punchbag. I would travel as much as possible.

Move to Spain.

Not get married, at least not to the lying cheating tosser I did marry, I made a bad decision and have regretted it ever since sadly

Tell my mum how much I loved her before she died and I didn’t get the chance.

Cancel my wedding and go to Australia instead.

Take more photos of my school friends. And not friends. I have some, but it would be lovely to have more. And inside my house. And family as well. I assumed they'd all be there for ever ...

buy a bunch of Apple and Microsoft shares