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Old 04-05-2009, 04:57 PM
 
Location: Texas
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PTC has a thread going talking about how much we have changed. Her thread has me thinking back over the years. I start to say if I could only have that choice over again......

I find that the greatest things in my life have come from the most difficult times. I think I would probably loose everything I love if I had made a different choice.

So if you had just one decision to make over...Would you? What is it and why?
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Old 04-05-2009, 05:14 PM
 
Location: Tucson
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I agree a single wrong turn CAN send your whole life down the hill. Unfortunately, fixing the mistake will have to be left for my next life...
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Old 04-05-2009, 05:22 PM
 
Location: So Cal
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Yeah, I think about it a lot. I can still remember her asking me the question.....


Will that be with fries or the baked potato?

Damn it, I knew I should have went with the baked potato.....
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Old 04-05-2009, 05:26 PM
 
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As you said, after bad times usually came a really good reward, so I don't think I'd change anything even when sometime I'd loved to skip certain chapters...
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Old 04-05-2009, 05:27 PM
 
Location: Tucson
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Yeah, I think about it a lot. I can still remember her asking me the question.....


Will that be with fries or the baked potato?

Damn it, I knew I should have went with the baked potato.....
So you're mocking me for making fun of your "dilemmas"...
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Old 04-05-2009, 05:32 PM
 
Location: Austin
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I believe in the butterfly effect. I wouldn't change even the most awful things.
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Old 04-05-2009, 05:40 PM
 
Location: So Cal
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So you're mocking me for making fun of your "dilemmas"...
No I wasn't mocking you.

I was just making a feeble attempt at humor in general.
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Old 04-05-2009, 05:52 PM
 
Location: Everybody is going to hurt you, you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for-B Marley
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I've thought about this far more than I like. If I could change the one decision I regretted, I wouldn't have my children now. I don't kid myself, if I could change that one decision, I think my past insecurities and immaturity would have eventually cost me the greatest love of my life--he wouldn't have fond memories of me today. As it is, we parted still in love with each other and as of today--33 years to the day we met--we're talking again and very happy to be back in touch. I can't say that would have happened if I could have changed that one decision.
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Old 04-05-2009, 06:01 PM
 
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I would go back and invest more into some relationships with family and friends.
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Old 04-05-2009, 06:12 PM
 
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I don't have many personal regrets, so mine is more financial.

There was a publicly-traded stock that went through bankruptcy reorganization back in 1999. The share price was down to a nickel. I remember looking at that and thinking, "Heck, the physical assets of that company are worth more than that." And I was thhhhhiiiiiiiiiissssssss close to investing $5,000 in it.

Last year it peaked around $23, which means that $5,000 would have been worth $2,300,000 today. Of course, with the stock market tanking, it would only be worth $900,000. Chump change.
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