If you would have been as knowledgable as you are now,

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  • January 28, 2011 3:42 pm at 3:42 pm #594591
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    If you would have been as knowledgable and experienced as you are now, which life choices would you have made differently (other than Shidduchim) in your uppper teens or twenties?

    (Im starving for a juicy intellectual Cheshbon Hanefesh thread and this could be that).

    January 28, 2011 4:34 pm at 4:34 pm #733177
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    Id have focused on career/education more and less on things that you dont remember or gain from, years later.

    Id have spent more time with my parents, but that wouldnt have been easy bec the children were younger.

    January 28, 2011 5:14 pm at 5:14 pm #733178
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    Better to look ahead more,no?

    January 28, 2011 5:43 pm at 5:43 pm #733179
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    Trust me, Im not thinking regrets 24/7. Thats foolish and destructive. I think learning from past mistakes, and utilizing it for positive, is valuable. Never mind that it helps others who are possibly younger and less mature.

    January 28, 2011 5:45 pm at 5:45 pm #733180
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    I wouldn’t have changed a thing. Chasdei Hashem.

    January 28, 2011 5:48 pm at 5:48 pm #733181
    mikehall12382
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    I would have played the right lotto numbers

    January 28, 2011 6:05 pm at 6:05 pm #733182
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    always, nice to be Sameach B Chelko, but I dont buy that you wouldnt have done as tleast ONE thing of major importance differently.

    mike, same for you. Choosing the right numbers isnt in our control, in the slightest. Thats not a regret. Im sure there’s something though.

    January 28, 2011 6:11 pm at 6:11 pm #733183
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    By saying, “if knowing what i did now”, you are implying that i have the ability to go back in time…which as far as I know is impossible, but if assuming I could, I would certainly be able to play the right lotto numbers, which would be entierly within my control…

    January 28, 2011 6:13 pm at 6:13 pm #733184
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    Ofcourse~ nope! of course (lol), I didn’t give it a whole lotta thought, but going over in my mind the biggies of life… same answer. and I’m a BT, had quite a past, was married prior to my present marriage, now have some health issues, but still remain very happy with the life I’ve lived & wouldn’t want to change any of those experiences… they made me who I am. 🙂

    January 28, 2011 6:17 pm at 6:17 pm #733185
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    mike, you know what I mean. I mean changing a decision that at the time WAS within your control/ability.

    January 28, 2011 6:21 pm at 6:21 pm #733186
    mikehall12382
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    Ofcourse…i’m just having some fun with the post…nothing more.

    January 28, 2011 8:04 pm at 8:04 pm #733187
    smartcookie
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    I would try to be more on the quieter side. Y’know, those people who don’t always hve to say something.

    I’m still working on that!

    January 29, 2011 5:13 pm at 5:13 pm #733188
    Derech HaMelech
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    I think my whole life would be on an entirely different plane. I spent a good [bad] portion of my early young adult life engaged in the follies of youth. It was only through maturing and through that overcoming the mountains from both nature and nurture that blocked my view of the path of Life that I was able to begin my trek.

    Had I been able to begin able to start earlier my entire self would be many multiples of times deeper.

    January 29, 2011 11:32 pm at 11:32 pm #733189
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    a biggie: I would never have started smoking.

    I would have learned how to drive.

    all I needed was Shabbos, & being off the computer to give your original question more thought. sorry 🙂

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    January 30, 2011 1:19 am at 1:19 am #733190
    doodle jump
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    Less sensitive. More assertive.

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