If you had the choice - what would you like to do over again?
If you could, what one thing would you like to be able to do all over again?
I wish I could have been braver to pursue my passion in music in an earlier time...
To do a service to the needy whatever way I could do that.
I would not have brought as many textbooks on my honeymoon trip, but I had my comprehensive exams to go back to when I got back..it turned out I did not study anyway and I did not enjoy my trip as well as I should have..
I agree with singernurse...I should have taken music as my main interest in college as I now compose it but feel the lack of real technical understanding. At the time i avoided taking music because I was shy on performance, which was a necessary aspect of the study. Nowadays it is possible to specialize in composing or some such.
Thanks for the question...a good one to ask!
I would have been more pro-active in my youth towards my future. I would not have "flowed with tide" on the work front. When I was young, I could breeze through an interview and often received multiple job offers, but they were jobs that only satisfied my classic underachiever mode of operation. Although my sister, brother and I were raised by the same caring parents, I adopted a blase attitude towards my independence. My college educated sister lives in Hawaii after accepting a lucrative, upper management position with the IRS and my brother went on to become a PhD microbiologist and head chair professor at UC, Davis.
Now, a few years short of retirement, I was laid off from my receptionist job and with little formal education, am competing unsuccessfully with young, college age applicants in a field I detest. However, as long as I am alive, I am using this time to pursue my artistic talents in writing and painting. And, I continue to look for a job that will sustain me while I try to make my mark in the endeavors I love.
Thank you, vocalcoach! Wishing you a healthy, happy New Year.
Many, many things, however, when I think about it everything that has happened--good and not so good--shaped who I am, and right now I am very happy with that person. Great question.
I agree with Dee (aka Nonna) .. all the things, good or bad, have made me who I am. And there are too many people that just keep reinventing themselves for the next career because they have fun. Seriously it's like they have no more fear or regret.
I wouldn't change one minute of my tragic, beautiful, sometimes aweful, rarely sweet life. I like where I ended up too much!
I'd get into acting when I was a teen. I discovered it recently and realized I missed out on all those years of being on stage. But I'm loving it now and can't wait for the next play to start up!
Sounds silly but I would have never have quit high school football, On the first week of training camp I blew out my ankle. It required a cast and I was on the shelf for 6 weeks. After my ankle healed I returned but ad lost my nerve. After some weeks of failing in drills at practice I quit instead of accepting a role on Junior varsity. I should never have quit like that and regret it to this day. Although I learned a great deal from that failure, I wish I would have done it differently.
Parent my daughter from birth. I would make fewer mistakes with what I now know. Wish I knew then what I know now.
Ah, wishful thinking won't get it done. So, I'll just be the best parent to her now that I can possibly be.
The only thing I would change is the direction of my education so i could afford to have more children. I loved every part of parenting and would not have changed anyone thing about having the three wonderful girls I had
I would have trusted myself more and others less. Many bad paths were set for me when I chose to let others lead me rather than choose to lead myself. Once you get on such a path, it's much more difficult to get on the right one.
I sure would like to keep what I have learned in life and go back twenty years. If I had to loose that knowledge than I think I would pass on doing it over again.
Choose my first LOVE again!!)and not pray GOD to give mt this guy or dat guy,jus gimme da ryt guy..
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