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[Italian Ufo]

Imagine we had a time machine in 2012 and you would have the chance to travel back in time and change 10 things about your life...what those would be ??

[SG-1]

• "Fix" all the people who gave me trouble
  
• Tell myself to place all my money in a bank when I was 6 and never touch it until 2012
  
• Cover my ears - a gunshot gave me permanent tinnitus when I was in the 7th grade
  
• Stop my parents from divorcing
  
• Tell myself to make a list of 5 things I hate so I can finish this list

[Italian Ufo]

1. Stop playin rugby after I was 21 and concentrate everything on lacrosse or football.
2. Avoid the neck injury I had 2003 while tranning. But thats where I started to get intrested in medicine and how to repair the body.
3. Left my first girlfriend after 1 year of relationship instead of 3.
4. Avoding to talk to a Canadian lady.
5. Be more selective with friends and have looked for more positve pepole.
6. "Fix" all the people who gave me trouble as well.
7.Being more determinated and stronger when I was really young. But I guess you learn from mistakes and now I am who I am..mostly a very confident person.
8. Be less shy when I was a teenager
9. Hadn't started law school after high-school
10. Have built a better relationship with my family.

[Time_Traveller]

1. Stop my parents from divorcing as well. (So my mum and Stepdad won't marry)
2. Stay at my first job and ignore my mum and stepdad made me resign.
3. Prevent my Grandad from dying so my Nan and Grandad moves to Oz.
4. Become more healther when i was 15 yearas old
5. Be less shy when I was a teenager as well
6. Move to Oz in 2004.
7. Don't get a credit card at my old bank.
8. Do better at School as had rubbish grades.
9. Learn how to drive at 18 so i could pass then.
10. Go to College in 2005 so i could pass Business and Admin Levels 1-3.

[Craven]

Nothing.

[GNR Rvolution]

Interesting to see some of the responses here (apart from Craven *tut tut*), and I'll get to mine in a bit, but before I do, I am assuming that these are things that would be within your power to change? Although I understand there are some things people would like to change (relatives dying, marriage break-ups etc.) I don't believe that it would be within my power to do anything like this. And I hope that from the responses here that people don't feel responsible for some of these things as I'm sure it was not their fault that these things happen, so that they think that there is some way that they can personally prevent them from happening

Anyway here's mine:

• Study harder at University - although I got good grades I could have done so much better but partying kinda got in the way.
  
• Been more open and honest about my relationships and feelings towards people - maybe I could have changed the path that others may have taken.
  
• Seen more of the world - I've been a few places but I passed up the opportunity to see so much more.
  
• Don't go to that strip club in Prague - wow that ended badly!
  
• Been more outgoing at school, although there were many reasons for my introverted nature I should have been more outgoing
  
• Not decided to up shop and emigrate to New Zealand, although it was a lovely place it just wasn't for me.
  
• Been there for the fall of the Berlin Wall - probably the most uplifting experience of my lifetime
  
• Care less about what other people think
  
• Invented Tension Paper
  
• Written this list!

[United]

1. Go back and advice Hitler on how to win ww2
2. kill hitler
3. get Hess to lead post ww2 europe
4. get hess to liberalize
5. live in a high-tech, non-multicultrual, non-decadent 2012

[SG-1]

Well after time traveling I came up with this list

5. Stayed in Dallas, TX
6. Continued my karate class instead of getting bored with it
7. Continued to learn Japanese
8. Never ever got an AT&T account
9. Treated some people better
10. Treated some people worse

[Italian Ufo]

I DONT GET WHY PEPOLE ARE SO SHY TO SAY THE THINGS THEY WOULD CHANGE

[SG-1]

Haha well its kind of personal I guess, but its interesting to see what each other are like in real life other than on this forum.

[Saradus]

I genuinely don't think I can come up with 10 things I want to change. Most of the past doesn't bother me unless it's currently affecting me now in the present. There are some specific events in the past that didn't go right that I was devastated with (screwing up the start of a relationship, missing university offers, moving home), but now in the present I realise I wouldn't be where I am if those things didn't happen the way they did, so I'm pleased for them now

But there are some things, I'll try to list as many as I can:
1. Get better A-level results (but still turn down my university offers, I wouldn't be at this point in my life and had the experiences I've had if I'd gone to my firm or insurance offers).
2. Be more proactive about my health when I was younger (I'm not fat, but I certainly have a lot of work to do before I'm what I consider my ideal and starting younger would've made things easier now!)
3. Gone back to when I was 4 and convinced my mum to continue speaking to me in Hokkien, Tagalog and Cebuano so that I'd remain fluent in them.
4. Stopped myself from wasting big wads of cash on useless stuff and save it all instead (£4k on a PC that broke within a year, £1.5k on a car I resold a year later, £400 on contacts I used for a month....you know, stupid stuff like that!)
5. Redo the exams I just did this year, I passed, but I wanted a distinction Not that this one makes a huge difference in the long run though!
6. My grandparents died of natural causes, but if we managed to get a cure for both their illnesses then I'd go back in time and cure them. I'd love to tell them about all that's happened in the past 6-7 years
7. Between 16-18, there was this one girl, we were great friends (you can see where this is going!). I never made the move, wish I had while the chance was there!
8. Go for a better driving instructor and actually take the test. I'm still a provisional driver because I don't have the cash to do lessons again now!

That's all I can think of and I actually put a lot of thought into writing this list! Thanks for this topic actually! I'd been a bit morose about things in general recently and this topic made me realise that I don't have many real regrets and that makes me appreciate things that much more

EDIT: Two jokey ones to fill in the blanks (but ones that if I could travel in time, anywhere in my life, I most certainly would do!):
9. Invent Google
10. Bring the latest tech back to my childhood and wow all my friends

Edited by Saradus, 18 May 2012 - 01:13 PM.

[GNR Rvolution]

£4k on a PC

Blimey, really?! That is an awful lot for a PC...

[Italian Ufo]

Haha well its kind of personal I guess, but its interesting to see what each other are like in real life other than on this forum.

LOL I KNOW...BUT AT THIS STAGE OF LIFE I LEARNT THAT WE ALL HAVE WEAKNESSES AND STRENGTH..BUT I RESPECT WHO DOSENT FEEL TO POST ON HERE.

[SG-1]

Caps lock..eh locked? haha

[Laurellien]

Before I use the time machine, I'd withdraw £10 from my bank account. I would then the do the following, in order.

1. Buy a Euromillions lottery ticket with the correct numbers for July 2011.
2. Place a large bet on the outcome of the 1992 general election in the UK.
3. Invest a large amount of money in Vodafone when it was starting.
4. Kill the Batman Place a very large bet on the outcome of the 2000 US presidential election
5. Persuade George Bush Sr. to invade Iraq in 1991.
6. Buy gold from the British government when they sold it off in the late 90's.
7. Patent the iPhone.
8. Whip my younger self into doing better at school.
9. ???
10. Profit!

Edited by Laurellien, 18 May 2012 - 03:12 PM.

[Saradus]

£4k on a PC

Blimey, really?! That is an awful lot for a PC...

Aye, back in 2006:


AMD Athlon X2 5000+ Dual Core AM2
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
2 x Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB)
Tagan TG900-U95 900W ATX2.01 Turbojet Quad SLi Silent PSU
3 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache
BFG GeForce 7950 GX2 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS Edition Sound Card Retail
Creative Labs Gigaworks S750 7.1 THX Speakers
Thermaltake T/TAKE CASE ARMOR VA8000SWA ALU WINDOW
Vantec Nexus NXP-305 Fan & Light Controller - Black
Zalman Reserator 1 V2 Silent Water Cooling Tower
Aqua Cuplex XT AM2 CPU Cooler
Aqua AquagraFX 7950GX2 GPU/RAM-cooler
BenQ FP241W 24" HD-Ready LCD Monitor
Studio Projects C1 condenser Microphone
Logitech G15 Keyboard with GamePanel
Logitech G7 Cordless Laser Mouse, USB + LAN case
Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000
Pioneer DVR-111D DVD+/-R/RW Writer (Black)
Sony Floppy Drive, 3,5" 1,44MB Black, Internal

At the time, these were top spec. The graphics card alone was over £300. Screen was £600+ (which I'm still using though, I'd actually still buy this if I could go back in time!)

I also planned to water cool it, glad I didn't...because some of the tech included was rather new (the graphics card was the first dual card in a single slot), getting specially built water blocks would've cost me a bomb and set me back another £600-1000!

Now I'm working off a tiny little asus laptop which cost me £700 and still does pretty much everything I need. Then again, I don't game nearly as much as I used to (Still have my xbox to keep me happy though!)

[Saradus]

Before I use the time machine, I'd withdraw £10 from my bank account. I would then the do the following, in order.

1. Buy a Euromillions lottery ticket with the correct numbers for July 2011.
2. Place a large bet on the outcome of the 1992 general election in the UK.
3. Invest a large amount of money in Vodafone when it was starting.
4. Kill the Batman Place a very large bet on the outcome of the 2000 US presidential election
5. Persuade George Bush Sr. to invade Iraq in 1991.
6. Buy gold from the British government when they sold it off in the late 90's.
7. Patent the iPhone.
8. Whip my younger self into doing better at school.
9. ???
10. Profit!

I would've thought after winning the euromillions (wouldn't that have been £70+ million?), most of those money-based wishes would be irrelevant

[Laurellien]

I've got to keep my income up, and money invested now will pay dividends for my descendants.

It wouldn't have been £70,000,000. The jackpot was £80,000,000. So if I bought 7 tickets instead of 1... then yes I could win £80,000,000.

Oh, I'd also use some of that money to buy a fast car with a lot of torque, cover it in flashing, strobe lights, loud speakers, and then I'd drive around at high speed with this song playing out of my car.

Edited by Laurellien, 19 May 2012 - 12:37 AM.

[Italian Ufo]

LOL