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    Do you value your past mistakes?

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    Post by Chris Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:32 am

    If given the chance to go back in time and prevent (not immediately fix, but prevent) yourself from making some of the biggest mistakes/errors you made in your life–and by default negate any life lesson you may have learned from them–or would you leave your past alone; taking solace in their having shaped the person you are today (possibly making you as wise as you are?)
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    Post by Shale Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:36 am

    I don't have any real regrets that I would try to change.

    However, to paraphrase Janice, I'd trade all of my tomorrows for one single yesterday - holdin' Brenda's body next to mine.


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    Post by Supernova Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:06 pm

    I often wonder about this. Now on one hand, were it not for the times I screwed up, I probably wouldn't have turned out as well as I have, however it would be nice to go through life without the annoying voices in my head constantly reminding me 'ooh you were stupid there'.
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    Post by Tony Marino Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:14 pm

    Not really, sometimes I say I would but then what would I have to learn from?
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    Post by TPP Tue Feb 08, 2011 2:43 pm

    I'm happy where I've ended up so no. There are some things that I would change that seem inconsequential to my life that would have had possibly a big effect on someone else's life though.

    When I was 13 I was at my best friends house and her brother in law came over and raped her (she was 13 too and we were home alone). I wish that I had called the police, no adult ever found out about it. She said everything was fine and I was scared though...
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    Post by MandyPerfumeGirl Tue Feb 08, 2011 2:56 pm

    I would leave the past alone. The past makes you who you are now, and if you turned out a decent person, then that's all you can ask for. I turned out halfway-decent and that's good enough for me. Life itself can screw people up, and if you turned out okay, you're a lucky person, instead of all the craziness taking you over.
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    Post by MandyPerfumeGirl Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:00 pm

    thepossiblepolice wrote: There are some things that I would change that seem inconsequential to my life that would have had possibly a big effect on someone else's life though.

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    I can completely relate. I've made huge mistakes in my life that hurt someone else, and those things I would change.
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    Post by Shale Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:18 pm

    I guess if there is a philosophy to this it would be:

    "Live more and more in the present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future." Meher Baba

    Or

    "Be Here Now"
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    Post by AtownPeep Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:43 pm

    Life lessons from past mistakes are consolation prizes for the endlessly optimistic. I don't value any of my past screw up's that much to consider them that sacred. If I could undo some major flub I made that had a nasty fallout then I would.
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    Post by Nystyle709 Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:46 pm

    AtownPeep wrote:Life lessons from past mistakes are consolation prizes for the endlessly optimistic. I don't value any of my past screw up's that much to consider them that sacred. If I could undo some major flub I made that had a nasty fallout then I would.

    Seriously. Hell fucking yeah I would go back and prevent just about every damn thing I thought I did wrong.
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    Post by Alan Smithee Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:15 pm

    I try to learn from my mistakes but I haven't fucked anything up bad enough were I'd want a do-over. Besides, as another Al a lot smarter than me once said, "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
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    Post by TSJFan4Ever Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:56 am

    I don't think so. I've learned from each of my mistakes and I really don't know if I'd be where I am today if I hadn't made those mistakes.

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