Would you go back in time?

[Clover]

Yes, I wish I could go back exactly 5 years ago today and hold my daughter's little baby feet. I would have held her more, and told myself to relax and enjoy the moment more. She goes to kindergarten tomorrow. *wipes tears*

[hannah]

Instead of thinking like that, hold her and cuddle her and savour every minute of her first steps into the wide world. Else in five years time you'll be regretting not appreciating her early school years!

I would go back and relive my childhood years from age 0 to 12. Although not everything was perfect (90s economy here was worse than now), I was not depressed, had zero anxiety (social or otherwise) and actually had friends. Like a poster child of optimism and positive thinking and it came naturally, before knowing what positive affirmations were.

Teenage years bought me Celiac, depression, anxieties, insecurities, loneliness so I would never like to go back to them and the same goes for my early-mid 20s. I was 25 when I saw improvement in my life and I am glad that I discovered binaural beats, the power of affirmations and Louise Hay. Going gluten-free also helped as I rid myself by the toxins from wheat/rye/etc consumption.

But I'd also like to make a happy future, that is even better than my childhood in the 90's.

[starling]

Originally Posted by LiveLaughLove

I wish I could go back in time and erase all the things I've had to endure and live with. I have so much regret from my childhood that I don't want to live with. I respect people a lot more... and I'd congratulate getting adopted on that part. But I am so suprised that my adopted mom kept me as long as she did. I am now 19, it's been 12 years. I feel like an idiot for the way I treated her from time to time. You just have to learn and grow from your mistakes.

Do you think she didn't expect that?

[starling]

Originally Posted by hannah

If you erase the things you regret, then you also erase the lessons you learn from them. It's only by making mistakes that you ever learn to go forward.
Accept that you make mistakes- everyone has a lifetime of things they wish had never happened, but learn from them never to make that mistake again.

Good post, well made points.

I'm currently have this trouble, I think it's called rumination.

When looking back avoid bad memories (or bad years if you have ones, high school years for example) and focus on good memories (elementary school, people you used to know from outside high school, etc.) To me the lovely 90's appear closer than the depression-filled 2004- mid 2013.

[dream jo]

i wud luv 2 gp fowerd in tim lk back 2 futcher 2 wear marty mclfy is in yr 2015 yer we in now still eait for cars 2 fly or skat on a hover bord i no i wud fall 1 now
i wud luv 2 sea wot it wud be lk in yr 2525 yep it sontd kinda of nuts but i am u cud say

[dream jo]

hears date i wud go yep 2525 2.5.25 yep weid

Going back in time would be fun. To fix all the mistakes we all make. But there are paradoxes that stop us from doing that. The future tho is another story.

[dream jo]

futchr wel get cars it can fly luv 2 sea flyng motr bke iy will so lol 2 sea 1 of thm fly
us its 2 obse will tk a pill thn be skinny nxt day thn we get wong for bean skinny so we still cnt win