My Next Life l Would do differently from my current one.

[Olivia]

In my next life l want to do everything different from where l'm born and to all of the choices l make. l don't want
to be me anymore. So then whose life would that be?

 

[hollydolly]

In my next life l want to do everything different from where l'm born and to all of the choices l make. l don't want
to be me anymore. So then whose life would that be?

well it wouldn't be ''your life'' anyway..in a next life. You would be someone else.. you wouldn't be Olivia... you could be Helen... or Amy...or even Jack.. or Dave....

 

[Olivia]

But folks have been known to do that even though in reality they can't become someone else.

 

[hollydolly]

But folks have been known to do that even though in reality they can't become someone else.

you mean in this life ?.. because if you were reborn you would be someone else wouldn't you?

 

[Aunt Bea]

It’s never too late to start where you are and become the best version of yourself or pursue the life that you imagine in many small but meaningful ways.

 

[George1959]

In my next life l want to do everything different from where l'm born and to all of the choices l make. l don't want
to be me anymore. So then whose life would that be?

Exactly the same with me.

 

[willnbugs]

I would never have moved from the East Coast to the West Coast. I miss being close to where I was born and everything and everyone I have known. I have too many maladies to ever be able to return or even to visit.

 

[Rakaia]

Yeah nah...
I'm one and done.

 

[-Oy-]

I'm coming back as a spolied and loved cat

 

[IrishEyes]

In my next life l want to do everything different from where l'm born and to all of the choices l make. l don't want
to be me anymore. So then whose life would that be?

Maybe think a little more specific, because if you come back it may be far worse than what went on so far.
There is a lot of wiggle room in that wish.

 

[hearlady]

I would be the same but with some better common sense and foresight.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Next time, I won’t take it as seriously as I did this time.

 

[Pepper]

^^^!!!

 

[timoc]

Folks for further than the eye can see would be shuddering at the prospect of another Tim being amongst them, they'd likely emigrate to Mars.

 

[JustDave]

Since such a wish is just imaginary, how about just restarting your life, and correcting your biggest mistakes? Maybe you could authorize a new set of parents to help you through the formative years and be better equipped for what's ahead.

 

[Paco Dennis]

I know what you mean @Olivia . I too can imagine many different choices and outcomes I could have chosen. I appreciate and sometimes envy others who have made different choices. We don't get to come back and choose. Maybe in some mystic soul type alchemy, but we have no proof. So, build on the unique qualities you have now, and let yourself become, wherever the wind blows ya.

 

[JustDave]

It's kind of interesting in our 80's and looking back at mistakes we made that had significant effects on our lives. I could make a list of my dumbest mistakes, but I won't share them here. At the time, they seemed right, but in hindsight... Yee Gods! But here I am and I'm happy, but I wouldn't mind another chance.

 

[Paco Dennis]

Yep, some of our choices in some ways were inevitable. We designed them so we could live the best we could. Real stupid describes it seems half of my choices, and I don't believe , in the end, anyone takes it with them when we die. We might feel foolish on our now mature 20-20 hindsight trick, but at the time, I was totally into it...in our Buddhist community we call this "Your Holy story". Unique to you....We try to find a way to put together our holy story in ways that make us feel like we are living fully.

 

[Irishdude]

I can imagine lots of alternative realities. But the "real" reality is that if I had taken any of those courses I wouldn't have met my wife, wouldn't have had my children or grandchildren, wouldn't have made the friends I have. Maybe it would have been better, maybe it would have been worse, but I'm happy with the way things turned out.

 

[C50]

Personally I'm happy with the one and done approach, things could end up much worse the next time.

 

[IrishEyes]

Personally I'm happy with the one and done approach, things could end up much worse the next time.

with my luck it would for sure and this merry-go-round was tuff enough

 

[Pepper]

All roads led to having my son. If I weren't a mess of mistakes, I'd have never met his dad. We wouldn't have traveled the same highway.

 

[Rakaia]

Since such a wish is just imaginary...

It is indeed.

Maybe you could authorize a new set of parents to help you through the formative years and be better equipped for what's ahead.

I would gladly have my old man, my stepfather as my progenitor, I would like to know about his girlfriend who was killed in a plane crash, my mother was a bit of a narcissist.

 

[TeePee]

I would have appreciated my parents more. My mom and dad died when I was young and I wasn't old enough mature wise to appreciate them. They say you don't miss something (in this case someone) until it's (they're) gone.

 

[911]

Move away from the area I haven lived in most of my life.