My life so far is summed up as this, a loving wife, wonderful children, three fantastic grandchildren and to go back and change, and possibly lose it all, NO WAY DUDE.
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| Posted by: Annabelle 24-Nov-2003, 12:47 PM |
| In Quantium Leap a television show here in the US, Dr. David Becker could jump into other people's lives to correct one thing in their past life...if you could jump back anywhere in your life, is there anything you would change or would you leave it alone and stay with what you are today? Annabelle |
| Posted by: snowblind 24-Nov-2003, 01:37 PM |
| Wasn't it Dr Sam Beckett? Anyway, I wouldn't go back and change anything in my own life right now, I'm not the most content of people but it suits me fine. |
| Posted by: High Plains Drifter 24-Nov-2003, 02:02 PM |
| I have made some stupid choices in the past and done some things that I am not proud of but I would not change a thing if I could. The dumb things as well as the good are what put me where I am today and I am satisfied with that. Chenging the past would put me somewhere else and that might not be nearly as good as this. Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it. |
| Posted by: Aventar 24-Nov-2003, 02:15 PM |
| I think I would go back and change my financial blunders maybe we wouldn't be living in a house with no water or heat. Ave |
| Posted by: Raven 24-Nov-2003, 02:38 PM | ||
I feel your lack of heat Ave If I changed anything it would all have to due with financial blunders and then only if I knew it would not change my friendships as I value them much more dearly than money. Peace Mikel |
| Posted by: McHaggis 24-Nov-2003, 02:43 PM |
| I have mentioned this before. In a book called "The Wine Of Violence" there was a plant substance that one could take that would transport them back in time to that place just before that step was taken that one wanted to change. The hitch was that this could only be done once and one had to live with the consequences of whatever happened when the future was changed, be it good or bad. So the question really is: would one be willing to gamble that be changing history that the outcome would be better...or would it be worse somewhere down the line? I remember a lyric to a Jack Tempchin song: "The one thing I know about the future is you just can't see it from here...." RON |
| Posted by: McHaggis 24-Nov-2003, 02:54 PM |
| Ave: I, too, have been in that situation. I lived in an old uninsulated farm house in west central Wisconsin for an entire winter in 1979. Heat I had, well, kind of: I had a small woodstove that was the only thing that kept me alive during months of cold weather---try 30 below zero! The well was frozen, no running water (I hauled water from town in 5 gallon containers: 4 at a time....and town was 15 miles away....that would last me maybe 2 weeks? Picture this: I had the couch pulled up as close to the woodstove as I could without it catching on fire. I slept in a 7" loft North Face superlight down bag, wore a merino wool balaclava, wool mittens, down booties and longjohns and was still cold. My 100 lb. golden retriever, a veteran winter camper in Montana and an ocean swimmer, would whimper on the floor next to me because he was so cold and ended up sleeping on top of me....the cat on top of him. That's how we spent most of the days and nights for at least December, January and February. A cup of tea brewed on the woodstove would be bubbling hot when I lifted it off the stove but would be luke warm by the time it got to the table....drank a lot of Sherpa tea (tea with melted butter in it) that winter.....trips to the outhouse were infrequent and more than miserable to say the least! Not to mention frozen engine blocks and all the other fun stuff one can imagine! I hope you're doing better than that, Ave! RON |
| Posted by: CelticRose 24-Nov-2003, 02:58 PM |
| If I had to do it over again, I would have chosen a different career path. I spent most my life working in the medical field and wished now I had gone into makeup artistry instead. I have dabbled in it a bit and loved it! Oh well! No point in crying over spilled milk, eh? |
| Posted by: Annabelle 24-Nov-2003, 03:00 PM |
| ok, sam Beckett, you knew what I meant! See there's one mistake corrected! Annabelle |
| Posted by: Macerca 24-Nov-2003, 03:36 PM |
| For my own personal choice I would have to leave it the way it is, like most have said, could be better or could be a lot worse. My life so far is summed up as this, a loving wife, wonderful children, three fantastic grandchildren and to go back and change, and possibly lose it all, NO WAY DUDE. |
| Posted by: single speed 24-Nov-2003, 05:41 PM |
| If I could change one thing, it would be the time that I overslept several hours and was 2 hours late picking up my mother, father, great-aunt and grandmother at a train station north of London. They had flown all night from Texas, and were wacked from the jet-lag. My aunt and Gran were 82 at the time. Did I mention that I went on a bender the night before, and my oversleeping was the result of too much ale? Mom still holds it over my head when she really needs me to do her a favor. Yea, That experience I would change. T.  |
| Posted by: CelticRose 24-Nov-2003, 05:44 PM |
Oops! Single Speed! Pretty funny now! But I am sure it wasn't too funny at the time.   |
| Posted by: jaynebylak 25-Nov-2003, 10:28 AM |
| If I could go back and try to change something in past. It would be not to get married at 19 and to have gone into college right out of high school instead of marrying. I wanted to be a Vetinarian. My friends and all other choices I made I wouldnt touch. Those made me the person I am today. They were learning experiance to make me have a strong survival instincts. Jayne |
| Posted by: silverdragon 25-Nov-2003, 12:51 PM |
| I sometimes wonder what would have been the result had I majored in architecture rather than aerospace engineering in college (I thought about it briefly at the time; would I have been happier in a field that allowed me some artistic satisfaction? I often think so). However, the person I was then could not have decided other than she did, so the question is moot; besides, I rather like who I am now and the path I'm taking now and I wouldn't be ME if I'd done otherwise then. |
| Posted by: Celeste of the Stars1 26-Nov-2003, 07:20 AM |
| They say hind sight is 20/20! I have done somethings in my past that I'm not very happy about, but I honestly would not change anything. I would be too afraid that if I did I wouldn't be married to my husband and have 4 beautiful children. |
| Posted by: Raven 26-Nov-2003, 10:18 AM |
| I got to thinking about it and there are a couple of things that I could have done different. I would have never have: -used a chain saw without a hard hat -ridden a motercylce without a helmet(particularly while drinking) -gotten wasted on my 19th birthday blown off my sister, mom and dad, grandma and grandma then shown up at my sisters house at 4 in the morning in time to puke in her living room -grabbed a hot muffler with my bare hands -raced a mini bike with a girls bicycle that had no seat when I was 9. This resulted in a tragic accident which may explain why I have no children to this day and besides that it really hurt.  - and I most definitely would never have stuck my hand in a running lawn mower deck. Peace Mikel |
| Posted by: Mailagnas maqqas Dunaidonas 26-Nov-2003, 10:41 AM | ||
As to why I always wear a helmet when on a two-wheeled vehicle (I've ridden both motorized and non-motorized), I have a helmet with a triangular-shaped piece about 3 inches to a side that broke off the front of the helmet when I landed on my head after being launched over the handlebars due to a piece of debris on the roadway catching in the front wheel and locking up the wheel. There is a almost identical piece on the back of the helmet where the shock wave from the impact passed through the helmet. I walked away from it without so much as a headache, although I did have to get some stitches in my face due to some mild lacerations, and still have some barely visible tattoos from imbedded asphalt. Many years ago, when I started US Cycling Federation-sanctioned bicycle road racing, one of my fellow competitors died after hitting the ground head-first while wearing one of the leather hairnets that passed for helmets in those days. I've landed on my head at least three times--once from a motorcycle, and twice from bicycles--each time wearing a hardshell helmet, and each time walking away. I have some scars, but am still here. Helmets do make a difference. |
| Posted by: single speed 26-Nov-2003, 11:46 AM |
| And the http://www.darwinawards.com/ goes to..... OOOPs! Sorry Raven, I have puked in a relative's house, and I was hit by a car on my bike without a helmet. Never mind. T. |
| Posted by: single speed 26-Nov-2003, 11:54 AM | ||
Whenever I am about to crash my bicycle, I think of my mantra: "Blood is inevitable, but chicks dig scars!" T. |
| Posted by: Raven 26-Nov-2003, 12:11 PM | ||
That must be why I am so popular  Unfortunately my hair hides most of my scars  Mikel |
| Posted by: McHaggis 26-Nov-2003, 11:37 PM |
| Same-same, folks! I have my share of adult bicycle scars also. Mostly from back in the days before helmets or leather hair nets. Never rode in the peloton but did a lot of touring in the Midwest (longest ride was 350 miles) and some urban tactical guerrilla racing with my homies on the streets of Minneapolis back in the day. Chicks dig scars? Really? I should be more popular since I wear shorts all the time. I got some good ones, though they've faded with age. RON |
| Posted by: Richard Bercot 27-Nov-2003, 02:14 AM |
| I really don't think I would change anything. I am happy with the way my life has turned out for me even though there were a few bumps that I would not care to go through again. The question is, if I was to change even one of them, would I be where I am at now in my life and would I have the wisdom that I collected from those experiences? I doubt it. I would probably have to experience those thing anyhow and who knows what the outcome would be the next time? So again, I am happy just the way things are. |
| Posted by: single speed 27-Nov-2003, 07:22 AM |
| I came to cycling late. I began riding in 1990. I was 32 and I had just quit smoking. I spent a few years racing Cat 4/Cat 5 in USCF. I quit when I realized that the kids I was racing healed quicker than I did. That same year, I began racing off road. More fun! Our team was based out of Corpus Christi, TX. Not many mountains in a coastal town, so we rode urban assult two nights a week. I have'nt raced since 2000, I'm hoping to begin again agter grad school. Hopefully a I prefer Mountain Bike racing. The racers have a sense of humor. As for scars, I have crashed far more on the mountain bike, but my best scars are from the road bike. T. |
| Posted by: Raven 27-Nov-2003, 03:29 PM | ||
That was about the same time my wife and I gave up competitive powerlifting for the same reasons (she was a lot better than I was and has all the trophys to prove it )We started doing music at that time ( there were sports injuries involved that pushed us that way) But I did manage to have a pretty good road bike accident a few years ago and kind of gave that up since as it took me long enough to heal that I never got back into it. I had a car pull out in front of me and I hit him and went right over the hood and landed on the concrete (I was 39 at the time  ) so you know that took some recovery. I'm so busy doing my day job and music right now that I just don't have time or I would probabaly go for the off road thing. It sounds like fun Single Speed.Happy Cycling Mikel |
| Posted by: McHaggis 27-Nov-2003, 03:34 PM |
| Classic little mtn. biking story. About 10 years ago now, my friend and surf buddy, "Coco" Fernandes, decided on a whim that he wanted to enter the Kamikaze Pro-Am Downhill events. He borrowed some BMX armor and a helmet from one guy, got a jersey from somebody else, borrowed $20 for gas from me and we sent him off down the road as "Team Pismo." I think the gig was at Mammoth Mountain. We figured he'd either get killed or something and would have been happy if he just made it down alive. As it turned out his first race he came in about 19th out of a very, very big field......and he was hooked! A few years later he was ranked 14th in the world! Haven't seen him in a few years but Coco did us all proud. Crazy freakin' Peruvian! ***** Hey, powerlifting, eh, Raven? Great! What was your best lift? I was training along those lines a few years ago but since I broke my back about 30 years ago in The Army my training is limited....nonetheless at 148 lbs. I managed to squeak 225 one rep max. When I start training again here soon, I still have the goal of hitting 300....twice my body weight, but that would be some 2 years after I start serious training again....I think I can put up that poundage! Some of us do our best work laying down! RON |
| Posted by: Raven 27-Nov-2003, 05:22 PM | ||
Good Goals McHaggis I started power training at 25 and my best Bench ever was a 300 single at 178 and a 395 single squat and deadlift at 29 yrs old. My wife was runner up national champion at 102 with a best bench of 145 and 300 squat and deadlift. I really became plagued with injuries at the time starting with a torn bicep and the list goes on. My wife retired after being injured in tryouts for the American Gladiators (she tore both of her quads) only a week before the qualifying round for the nationals the next year. She was projecting American Records but that's the way it goes as you get older I am 43 now and I still lift but very light and only as a means to stay tone and help in the control of my type 1 diabetes as I heal slower than ever now Also it helps me with my stamina as a performing musician  Good luck with that double body weight lift. I hope you do it!! Mikel |