If only I could turn back time

I feel this way a lot too. Healing can be gained from remembering the past. Nostalgia and reminiscence has its uses for sure. So I don't feel bad about my time traveling to the past on occasion. :eek:nthego:
 
squatting dog said:
If only... if only. :(:(
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Awwww, I'm sorry... I can sense you're feeling a little bit downhearted...and I know how you must be feeling. As we get older so many of us wish we could turn back time, or at least revisit something or somewhere, and settle things somehow... but we can't.. but don't think you're alone... we all feel what you are feeling now at times, it's sad but it's natural, especially if you've been through loss..
 
chic said:
I feel this way a lot too. Healing can be gained from remembering the past. Nostalgia and reminiscence has its uses for sure. So I don't feel bad about my time traveling to the past on occasion. :eek:nthego:
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I agree. Sometimes nostalgia/reminiscing can be comforting and bring a smile just when you need it.

While it's not good to dwell on things you should/shouldn't have done, taking another look at situations can help to put things into perspective.
 
There are times I wish I could do over that's for sure! You are not alone. We are all human though, and faulted and always will be.
 
Sigh.. Learning through our life experiences, both good and bad. Way back in the day an old foreman at my job told me, "If you don't ever screw up once in a while, then you're not doing anything." I've always kept that thought with me..
 
I wish I could turn back the clock and fix things. Nice thing though, it's we have reached the peak of our wisdom. Of course it makes me think, if this is my peak, I must have been really stupid when I was young. Lol. Look forward, plus ahead and enjoy.

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I sometime wish to turn back time too Squatting Dog, if for anything, just to be young again instead of in my sixties. But I don't dwell on that too long, because I'm just wasting the precious moments I have now when I do. I think it's better to embrace our lives in our old age, cherish every moment of every day and look forward to our tomorrows....hugs.

 
I'd love to go back in time to the 50's with my whole family sitting around our big picnic table like we did so many times during the summer or our holidays together. On the other hand I think, I'm glad I am where I am now and as long as my kids are settled and happy that's all that counts and I don't particularly care to hang around until I'm 90.
 
The best thing I've read about having regrets about the past is that instead of beating yourself up is just realizing that what you did or didn't do, or said or didn't say back at the time is something you really couldn't have done any differently at that moment, moments or any other period of time. It was what things were then and how and who you were at the time. The only thing you can do is what you can do now at the present. And even then, guaranteed you will look back and wish you had done something differently. It's still hard but much better than continue to feel like a bad person.
 
My philosophy is that stuff happens for a reason. I learned some hard lessons, and I'm glad I did. So as hard as it is, I just move on. I strugggle a lot, like when I remember my boys being young. They were so much fun. I knew when I had them that they were mine for just a short time.

So now I have to live my life differently, do old lady stuff that makes me happy. Learn to play games on my cell phone. Surf the web. (Well, that doesn't really sound like old lady stuff. So why do they make fun of me?) I do try to be the cool Grammie though. It's great harrassing my boys through my grandchildren. I love having cohorts.
 
This is the old problem that if you could go back and change something, you have no idea how it might affect future events. What has happened, has happened - good or bad. Best make the best of the present and learn from mistakes of the past.
 
I would only like to turn back time to see my parents again. There are so many things I'd want to ask them, and hug them tight and hear their voices.

I have a few regrets in my life, but not sure I'd do things any differently if I had the chance.
 
I have thought about this many times, usually when looking back at some of the stupid decisions I have made in my life, and wishing that I could go back and change it.
Then, I thought about it some more, and I realized that even if I went back and “fixed those mistakes” in my past, I would probably be making new ones as I re-lived my life, and I would still end up here at my age and wondering how I could have made the new mistakes.

On a more positive note, there are also a lot of really great memories from the past, and being able to go back and relive some of those would be totally awesome !
Sometimes, I look at pictures of places I would like to go, and think of things that I still want to do; but then I remember that I just can’t do all of the things that I could do when I was younger and in better health.
I really miss being out on some mountain trail riding my horse, or just sitting in the twilight near some remote lake and waiting for that fish to bite on my bait.
On the other hand, it is nice not to have to be at work so many hours every day, and just be able to relax and stay at home when the weather is bad; so I guess every time in our life has its drawbacks and its benefits.
 
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