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Excluding "betting on" or "playing lotto numbers", if you could do one thing differently in your past, what would it be?

No cross Wiles Road at 6:40AM on October 10, 1994

Play sports (soccer, tee ball) when I was a kid.

Never smoked my first cigarette...

Never go to that party with Him.

Decided to stay home instead of trying to chase down my ex that particular Saturday.

I would not do anything over because I am happy with my life and everything that already happened has shaped who I am right now.

Just one? :D
I would have have taken my brother to the doctor earlier....Would have been there for him sooner....(if he wouldn't have died,my mom and sisters,probably wouldn't know they were diabetic,blah,blah,blah...But I'd rather have my brother back....)

I'm with Stl FinFan.

That said - I wouldn't have minded to see how the following would have played out:

I had a chance in high school to enroll in a private school that is known to be a DI baseball player factory.  I turned down that chance because the high school I did go to was known as a baseball power house and we went on to win four state titles my freshman to senior year.

HOWEVER...

I ended up being recruited by D1 schools and offered deals to play football, signing with the University of Oregon on the promise I could also walk on the baseball team.  After meeting with the coaching staff I was told that they thought I had "good stuff" but that the talent I faced in high school set my development back too far to be of real use to them.

Needless to say, that forced me to transfer to a school that COULD use me on a baseball field as that was my true sports passion.  And I wound up with a national title (even if it is DIII) out of it.

In pure ground hog day fashion - I started working out for scouts and was being told the same thing.  I have good stuff but the lack of "MLB talent" in the DIII world has stunted my growth, even lower level A batters would figure me out very quickly and my ability to alter MY game probably isn't there...because I've never had hitters figure me out that quick.

So, long story short, I think everything above is a bunch of crap.  I've thrown to players that are on MLB rosters right now with a level of success. I wish I had:

1 - considered that high school more carefully and;
2 - been more assertive to the Ducks staff and scouts that they really needed to see me in game action before making that decision.

I GET it, though.  You have two guys, both can touch low 90's with the hard stuff and both have good off speed stuff.  One guy is a DI player that has faced lineups littered with guys in the minors and bigs.  The other guy has dominated on a lower level but rarely faced pro-ball level players.  I would go with the DI guy as well.

That would be my one do over - just to see where things would have gone.  But I would ONLY do that do-over if it came complete with my wife and Abby either way.  If I had to choose between my family or becoming a Cy Young award winning MLB pitcher it's not even close, give me my family.

While I can appriciate that and your attitude.......Nobody or anything we have done is perfect.

Me? I would have joined the armed forces back in 84 when I graduated High School. I instead went into construction and played in bands for about 10 yrs. I had a great time and don't regret what I did. But to be honest I don't have much to show for it either except a beautiful Gold Top Les paul I managed to keep all these years. I know cops My age that were in the armed forces and have over 20 yrs in as cops. They are SET finacially as long as they don't get a divorce. I've grown up alot since then. You all should have seen me 20 yrs ago. If you think I'm a dickhead now........ ::) ;D

I had a decent 401k from 17 years as a Journeyman electrician in NYC but thats in the shitter now. Down $30,000!!  :-[  i have about 10 yrs in now, I'll have to work until I'm 57 to get my 25. Hopefully by then that 401k is back up in the stratosphere so I can chill.

Its not just about the Money.........I LOVE what I do now and I just wish I got into it sooner is all. The Armed forces would have done that. It would got my long haired hippie ass in shape 20 yrs sooner.

I would've gone away to college.

I would've finished college the first time. 

Put the energy I spent on being in bands into something else or never hooking up with my daughter's mother.

I would have put more effort into high school not only academically but socially as well. I wish I didn't spend so much time hating the place!

It used to be "I never would have gotten together with my ex"  but I don't know that if I hadn't een in something so bad, I would have realized how awesome I have it now. 

The same can be said of anything in your life.  If you took the bus instead of drove your car one day, your entire life would most likely be different, if you're a believer in the butterfly effect, which I am.

I assumed that this question was more -- if all other things remained the same, but you'd done one thing differently.

If that's the case, I would not have gotten together with my ex.  Total waste of 6 years of my life.

My life has not been perfect and I have made a lot of wrong decisions, but I still would not change anything.

Oh man if I could go back in time with what I know now............. ::)

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Fair enough. But I still have a hard time believing that given a wish to go back and do it over you wouldn't do something different.

Stl's point is that she's happy with life now.  So, without her mistakes, she wouldn't be where she is now, thus risking losing that happiness.

Poof.  No daughter then.  Would you be willing to make that switch?  I would rather someone come hack my apart with a butter knife than my daughter never existing. 

Like I said........fair enough. I totally get and respect that. But if given 1 chance I just have a hard time beliving she would do something different along the way to give her greater happiness.

An embarrassing moment........something.

 

I think most of us are all happy with life. We still have the what if moment though. It's human nature.

exactly ^^^^

Mine is the day that I was hit by a car on my way to school. Because of that moment, I have lifelong orthopedic issues. If I could make that go away, hell yeah I would

You guys are really persistent, I'll give you that.

I really should not have killed that guy and disposed of his body for being too nosy.  ;)

I don't regret my daughter, but if I had the chance to do it over, I would. Her life has been hell because of her mother's stupidity. I don't really want to go into everything that happened, but my reasons for saying that are well thought out and logical. What I will say is that her mother abandoned her, and hasn't talked to her in over 5 years, and hasn't seen her in 8 years. I haven't been stable enough to have her live with me, so she lives with my mom. That's just the tip of the iceberg of things that have gone wrong.

That's actually what I was going for.


Me; I'd have called out of work that night and spent it with my ex GF. She wouldn't have gone out with her friends - keeping her safe from that car accident.

Seen Marino in Miami or Staley in concert anywhere.  I was watching a cut of Man in the Box from Miami '91.  Kick ass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ7O4EE0dsg

  I WOULD HAVE BECOME A STEELER FAN INSTEAD OF A DOLFAN ;[ ;D/b]

I was until 6 or 7.  Probably would be if they'd taken Marino.