Thought-Provoking Question of the Day, 3rd Edition

[wsuhoey]

If you could change one decision you made in your past, which of the following do you think would be most affected by the decision you would change?

My career.
My love life.
Another's well-being.
None of the above - I would not change anything.

Discuss.

[Disgustipated]

The 3nd edition of this sucks.

[wsuhoey]

The 3nd edition of this sucks.

I fixed the typo :)

[Disgustipated]

I fixed the typo :)

Damn. Well, uh... Changing the past is a scary thought. One key decision being changed can literally change everything. Don't think I'd do it, unless I could see the outcome beforehand.

[diablopath]

My career.

If I didn't go outside to play after the ice storm back in 2002, I wouldn't have ended up having some brain surgeries.

If I didn't have those brain surgeries, I'd be a Loadmaster in the United States Air Force right now.

Instead, I'm a college student.
Fuck.

[nitetrain]

Career...

Had i not been suffering from ADHD all my fuckin' life...i'd Probably be making More Money in a week than this site takes in on donations in a month..

[Ravenlock]

Another's well-being. There was a sweet, sick kid who really liked me and gave me a note saying so one summer while we were at this camp for kids with heart disease. I was a jackass teenager and I never acknowledged or responded to it. She didn't survive another year for me to apologize.

I like to think it's taught me to take a lot more care with other peoples' feelings, and I've now been going back and working for that camp for years, so that mistake probably made me a better guy, but I should have been a better guy already, and I'd go back and change it in a heartbeat.

[Vermillion]

I'd change nothing. Every poor and good decision I have made in my life has led me to where I am today. And where I sit, where I am is pretty f'in awesome.

Sure I'd like to do the "what if" scenarios and see what would have happened. My biggest being to not drop ROTC and go join the USAF. But with that decision I might not have gone into IT, not met my wife, not had my baby boy, and not saved the universe from annihilation at the hands of the Zerg.

[Psykoboy2]

i'd Probably be making More Money in a week than this site takes in on donations in a month..

We don't take donations. In fact, now that I think about it, we've gone a whole year now without running any type of donation drive for the site or anything like that.


My answer: None Of The Above

[Lint of Death]

I wouldn't change anything because I would fail to make a difference.

[Troggles]

I chose the first one. I haven't started my career yet, but I'm a senior in college and I wish I could start this all over. Probably the same major, but I would do more production work as well as not transfer from a community college.

[Generation ABXY]

Like the last one, I probably wouldn't want to change anything. My life may not be perfect, but I'm perfectly happy with it and everthing that has happened has made me exactly who I am. So, yeah, nothing.

[Kielaran]

Tough one. I will also fall in the nothing column, though. I like the person I am and where I have ended up so far (especially in the last few weeks). As with others here there were a few things I could have changed that would have made a difference.

Career: I wish I would have worked harder in school, but seeing where I am now, I would probably be sitting in a boring grad school class, well on my way to a doctorate instead of working in the industry and (hopefully) making a name for myself in the real world.

Love: I wish I would have dropped my high school sweetheart a few years sooner. the last few years with her were just phoning it in and it would have been a different experience at college, but as before, it may have turned out that I would not have met the person I am currently head over heels for. Who knows how this will end up, but I wouldn't change anything if it may alter where I am in my current situation.

[shunoshi]

I don't believe in the concept of changing something in one's past. Although you think you may know what the outcome of changing a decision in the past would be, you're wrong. Chaos theory, butterfly effect, all that jazz.

If given the chance, I wouldn't change anything.

[Zero]

None of the above. There's a huge rough spot in my life right now, but I don't know what I could go back and change to fix it. Well I guess I do, but I don't know if it would take.

[Dukefrukem]

None of the above? the one decision i would change... a big one... wouldn't have affected my love life, my carrier, or someone else's well being... it would have affected MY well being, but I def would have changed something.

[Superman's Dead]

I picked my love life. Sure, everything might be different, but there are those times where I wish I would have said what I meant or made that phone call, or told her that I wanted to see her again, etc, etc.

...It's too rainy today for this. Needs more comedy. ;)

[Lint of Death]

...It's too rainy today for this. Needs more comedy. ;)

Why did the chicken cross the road?

[TurboKinny]

None of the above. I wouldn't want to change anything because it's the culmination of all those things that has brought me to where I am now.

[roboninja]

Career. I do not mind where I am right now, but I could have gotten here at least 10 years earlier. I spent 7 years on a college degree I do not use. They were a fun 7 years, but I always wonder what could have been had I started my working career only a couple of years after high school, instead of 9 years.

[Dukefrukem]

None of the above. I wouldn't want to change anything because it's the culmination of all those things that has brought me to where I am now.

good fuckin answer.

[Ink Asylum]

I would've gone to college earlier. That's the one big thing I'd change.

As an interesting "What if?" I wonder if my life would have taken a very different direction if I'd been given a guitar when I was five instead of a sketchbook. Would I have taken to music as much as I took to art? Would I be in a band right now?

[wsuhoey]

My answer: None Of The Above

Discuss. :)

[EternalGamer]

Love life: As much as I appreciate my relationship of 6 years (I have a great partner and we almost never fight about anything), I wish I had taken more chances earlier. This relationship was my first and I was 25 when it started. There is one situition in particular that will probably always haunt me the rest of my life. That certainly doesn't mean I'm not happy where I am, but I'd probably be happier had I traveled a few roads before arriving here and had would be able to appreciate it even more than I do.

[SilentScreams]

I guess I'll say career, but by that I mean I'd have gone to college and university. I'm certainly smart enough, but I wanted to get a job and make some money.

With that said, I'm only 23, and I know for a fact that my family would support me financially if I decided to go back and do it all now.
The problem is that I have no idea what I'd do. I have no real interests other than football (soccer) and video games, and neither of those really translate into a career. :D

[Deadend]

I choose you career!

I'd have not wasted my time at Baker, probably would have just gone to OU and would have gotten a degree a year or so ago. Only thing I have liked are the people I met.. at OU.

[nitetrain]

We don't take donations. In fact, now that I think about it, we've gone a whole year now without running any type of donation drive for the site or anything like that.


My answer: None Of The Above


really? i stand corrected then..not that anything i said was a jab of any kind at the site.

[Bad Buddha]

None. It's been a long convoluted trip to get me where I am today. Any change in any aspect of my life could negate some wonderful facet of my current life. Sure, I screwed up a lot and made a lot of questionable decisions, but I wouldn't change anything of my life right now.

Hell, I left a love note on my wife's pillow this morning. I wouldn't change that for the world!

[Ravenlock]

Hell, I left a love note on my wife's pillow this morning. I wouldn't change that for the world!

*Applause* Bravo, sir. Excellent form.

[BigJonno]

I wouldn't change a thing, because the two are intrinsically linked for me. Two particularly bad choices for me were not going to university when I left school and not finishing the journalism course I started a couple of years later. If I could change either of those and still be as happily married as I am, I'd do it in a heartbeat. However, I know that without those two choices, I wouldn't have met my wife.

Love > career.

[johnperkins21]

None of the above. I wouldn't want to change anything because it's the culmination of all those things that has brought me to where I am now.

None. It's been a long convoluted trip to get me where I am today. Any change in any aspect of my life could negate some wonderful facet of my current life. Sure, I screwed up a lot and made a lot of questionable decisions, but I wouldn't change anything of my life right now.

Hell, I left a love note on my wife's pillow this morning. I wouldn't change that for the world!

This is exactly how I feel. I've made a ton of bad decisions in my life, and there are quite a few little, individual things that I wish I had done better or made wiser choices, but I'm extremely happy where I am now. No reason to change anything, as it's all worked out very well eventually.