# Live your life over, change ONE decision. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 13, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-your-life-over-change-one-decision/499636 "2009-06-13T02:54:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-your-life-over-change-one-decision/499636/61 "2009-06-16T23:04:56Z")
But perhaps asking her out will avert the Darfur genocide! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-your-life-over-change-one-decision/499636/62 "2009-06-17T16:56:05Z")
I would have gotten into health occupations about 15 years ago instead of trying for years to get full-time work as an English professor. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-your-life-over-change-one-decision/499636/63 "2009-06-17T17:30:01Z")
I would have picked a different family to be born in. ---
**Author:** ![Clivas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@Clivas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clivas)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-your-life-over-change-one-decision/499636/64 "2009-06-17T17:51:12Z")
Make love to Mary, the sweetest, prettiest, dumbest girl that has ever offered herself to me. I still hope to do it some day, even if she’s 80. ---
**Author:** ![Noelq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noelq/32/16438_2.png) [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-your-life-over-change-one-decision/499636/65 "2009-06-17T18:39:31Z")
I would have gone to college directly from High School, instead of two years at the local community college. I regret not having two years at the university - I could have really benefitted from the maturity. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-your-life-over-change-one-decision/499636/66 "2009-06-17T19:24:10Z")
I would’ve either gone to Europe or straight into college after high school, instead of immediately joining the Air Force. And I never would’ve sent that email to Lauren. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-your-life-over-change-one-decision/499636/67 "2009-06-18T00:14:52Z")
I would have tried to get into some study-abroad programs while I was in college so that I’d have had an opportunity to travel more when I had the time. Now it feels like there are so many places I want to go but I don’t have the freedom I had back then. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-your-life-over-change-one-decision/499636/68 "2009-06-18T00:42:24Z")
Not wasted so much of my time at Harvard totally coked out and drunk. I missed a lot of opportunities, both academic and social, because I was convinced that doing drugs and drinking were the reason I was there, rather than having the opportunities to study with some of the greatest minds in their fields. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-your-life-over-change-one-decision/499636/69 "2009-06-18T02:02:33Z")
I would have asked Anna-Marie out, that time I was staying over at her parents’ place. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-your-life-over-change-one-decision/499636/70 "2009-06-18T02:06:18Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > But perhaps asking her out will avert the Darfur genocide! Averting the Darfur genocide by causing the Chinese invasion 35 years early isn’t quite what I had in mind. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-your-life-over-change-one-decision/499636/71 "2009-06-18T03:35:06Z")
And if preventing the Darfur genocide means I have to get run over and killed 20 or 30 years ago, well sorry, they’re just going to have to lump it. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-your-life-over-change-one-decision/499636/72 "2009-06-18T14:04:46Z")
I wouldn’t have married my ex. I’d still be where I am today, but I wouldn’t have wasted the time, drama, and energy on my ex. ---
**Author:** ![Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/13edae/32.png) [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interconnected_Series_of_Tubes)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-your-life-over-change-one-decision/499636/73 "2009-06-18T14:58:02Z")
Biochemistry, not business, two years sooner than I did. Would save me a few headaches right now. Pretty minor on the grand scheme of things, but the collection of knocks I’ve received has tempered a pretty hoopy frood, so there you have it. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-your-life-over-change-one-decision/499636/74 "2009-06-18T15:51:31Z")
I’m pretty happy with my life, but out of pure curiosity, if I could change one decision, I’d either have gone to college, or not gotten involved with my ex. Actually, I think the latter is winning out, just because without divine intervention, you can generally do what you haven’t, but you can’t undo what you did. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-your-life-over-change-one-decision/499636.md?page=3)