If you could do it all again

[Tiger King]

Imagine knowing what you know now but rebooting your life.
would you change anything? what would you do differently?

Myself? I would have studied harder in school and not worried about others opinions so much.
I think I would have joined military service too. I wanted to as a kid going through army cadets but then the whole Iraq war thing broke out :/

I don't regret much but I feel I could have 'done a better job'
how about you guys?

 

[Queen Michael]

There's this conflict on Facebook where I would have stated my opinion more clearly. Also, I'd have played less Pokémon. To me, that was always the kind of game that's more addictive than actually enjoyable.

 

[Rylot]

I should have been less afraid of failing and tried more social and scholastically. Also would have given up on wheelchair racing and basketball sooner and found a way to play sled hockey sooner, I was born for that shit.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

I would have spent more time with my grandfather and asked him about his life growing up.
I think that's one of my biggest regrets, he was a really amazing guy and I only learned a lot of these things after he was already gone.

I would have studied more languages and put more effort into learning them well,
Maybe not be as much of a wallflower as I was.

I'm trying to learn Spanish now, though it's harder than if I'd just cared a little more about it in school.

 

[murrow]

Had I known earlier that I needed to know several languages to follow my dream career, I'd have used all the spare time I had in high school to learn them. Having to rush after in in college was very stressing.

I also wish I had started playing the violin at age four, not 18. It doesn't matter how hard or how long you practice; if you've grown up with the instrument it just sounds differently.

Last, but not least, I would not have thrown away my whole manga collection in a fit of teenage rebellion. That's probably the biggest mistake I've ever made.

 

[Asclepion]

People reminisce about not doing well in school?

Standardized education was one of the worst experiences of my entire life. A human assembly line of memorizing factoids and being judged on them in preparation for life as a 19th century laborer. Fuck that! And I was one of the lucky ones - I had some amazing mentors, who I still have relationships with years later. I would have dropped out faster than you could blink.

School teaches that success comes from the approval of others, that failure is a source of shame, and dependence on authority for your self worth. And then you're blown out into the world and realize that isn't how life works at all.

 

[Aerosteam]

As opposed to doing better at education, I'll say not do the last year of high school at all and go straight to college because I already had enough awards/credits to do it. Also I failed everything in my last year and some of my friends became more like assholes so it was an enormous waste of my time.

If I did this, I'd essentially be exactly one year ahead from where I'm at now.

 

[Barbas]

I'd have picked a different school (or two) and hopefully done better there. I'd also have more attention to the arts and sciences, and been kinder. That about covers it.

 

[Silvanus]

I'd have suggested going all the way with [REDACTED].

 

[Frezzato]

I would have ignored my friend's doubts about mobile gaming, which we were working on all the way back in 1999. It was an artillery game except all the units moved, plus we had a mini map at the bottom which served as a legend. We got it working, in black and white, on the Palm III. Neither of my two friends working on it wanted to proceed, and me not having any programming skills, I just let it die on the vine.

Eight years later iShoot came out for the first iPhone.

I guess my lesson would be to forge ahead regardless of what others thought. I would take advice mind you, but when it comes to uncharted territory, I think there's nothing wrong with trying something out.

 

[Secondhand Revenant]

As opposed to doing better at education, I'll say not do the last year of high school at all and go straight to college because I already had enough awards/credits to do it. Also I failed everything in my last year and some of my friends became more like assholes so it was an enormous waste of my time.

If I did this, I'd essentially be exactly one year ahead from where I'm at now.

That sounds like doing better at education though. I ought to have gone to college faster myself, I'd consider it an improvement in education to be a year ahead of where you are.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I honestly wouldn't change anything my second time around.

The only thing that would be different is that with all my knowledge and experience, I would spend less time studying and experimenting with things that were new and difficult for me, and spend all that time doing other things.

I'd be able to get into new hobbies more easily (writing, drawing, collecting and playing video games, sports, etc.) and experiencing things that I would have years later (traveling, learning new languages, dating, etc.).

 

[Scarim Coral]

Trying to reboot the childhood would be a hard one. I mean do we keep my current maturity in our in younger self which I can easily imagine we only make our childhood "boring" or we go through our embarrassment all over again!

In saying so this is what I would had changed if I had to redo it-
Started to draw earlier and try to muster up a will to continue to draw to the point I would had my own fanart collection or my own comic. Also getting the tablet software as soon it is available would of been a huge advantage among the online web comics.
Get a summer job when I finish Hish School much to my dismay.
Study better during the exam (why the hell they never taught us that easy memorising method ie making highlight and notes easlier?).
Try to be nicer to my brother during my childhood but I am certain I cannot change this for I have no memories of it.
DO NOT TRIM MY TOENAILS SO DAMN CLOSE!!! I will saved myself a good number of years if I ever try to alter that part of my life!!
Joined the Escapist/ Warcry before Yatzee. That would I would had become the oldest member on this site, ever! (Also watching MLP:FiM from the start would of been cool.)

Granted the following is what I won't alter at all or try to the course the same-
Continue to picked the same University cource NO MATTER WHAT! Sure that course is irrelevent to my alter life but I refuse to change the friends I made at University. Seriously this is the most important part of my life I would NEVER EVER change!
My loved toward video games and anime.

Also if I were to take advantage of this reboot to great benefit my own I would-
Make sure I get a lotto ticket with these specific numbers to used on this date.
Buy stock for certain rising stars companies.
Buying issue 1 of comibooks before they become a thing. Sure I won't be filthy rich since I wasn't born in time to picked up issue 1 of Action Comic but still I can make a few bucks.

 

[Aerosteam]

As opposed to doing better at education, I'll say not do the last year of high school at all and go straight to college because I already had enough awards/credits to do it. Also I failed everything in my last year and some of my friends became more like assholes so it was an enormous waste of my time.

If I did this, I'd essentially be exactly one year ahead from where I'm at now.

That sounds like doing better at education though. I ought to have gone to college faster myself, I'd consider it an improvement in education to be a year ahead of where you are.

True, true.

Though I would've learned to code things and create programs one year earlier - aside from education, my personal projects I'm working on right now would've been completed already.

 

[Euryalus]

I'd have picked a different school (or two) and hopefully done better there. I'd also have more attention to the arts and sciences, and been kinder. That about covers it.

You're forgetting not playing more pranks on the Hero of Kvatch before he became Sheogorath. Now he's too mad to even understand the ink eye telescope thing isn't a fashion statement.

OT: Dunno... um... mastered some sort of martial art when I was younger and had all the time in the world?

 

[Frankster]

I'd have studied LESS and enjoyed my childhood more for what it was, instead of being permanently worried about my future and taking steps to avoid it which ironically, put me in a worst position now then if I had been carefree and not giving a fuck about my education.

I'd also have spent a lot more time with family and would have been more sociable.

But saying fuck off to studying hard and focusing on doing what I actually like: drawing would have made me a happier and more importantly, self reliant person today, because now I'm just playing catchup with those lucky sods that have been drawing non stop since their teens and maybe even did a few GCSE art or equivalent levels whereas I'm edging on 30 but have to start pretty much from scratch ¬¬ There's a good realistic chance I'll be a bum begging on the streets in 20-30 years if this doesn't work out but oh well, will cross that bridge when we get there and wasted enough years as it is.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I would have spent more time with my grandfather and asked him about his life growing up.
I think that's one of my biggest regrets, he was a really amazing guy and I only learned a lot of these things after he was already gone.

This probably. Everything else for better or worse has made me as a person and while it would be nice to have more, I don't know if I'd also have what I have today. Never know what changes in your past could have affected the future, or present, or whatever.

 

[ThreeName]

I'd have started lifting weights in 2012, rather than in 2014.

That's it really. Anything else and I wouldn't really be me.