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If You Could Turn Back Time

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Do you ever wish you could turn back time and do something you'd always wanted to do, or said something you'd always wanted to say.

I sometimes wish I could turn back time so that I hadn't spent the majority of my 20's and 30's being so reclusive, being in fear of people and opportunities. I feel so old right now and that I've wasted so much of my life.

Wow. I don't know where this "low" came from, but there it is.

I always wanted to learn to dance, especially the Jitterbug, the Quick Step and the Paso Doble. And this was all long before Dancing with the Star became vogue. A college classmate danced competitively and I always admired and envied her.

Ah well, c'est la vie.
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i wish i could turn back time and actually find a good pdoc while i was in my early twenties so i wouldn't be going thru all this now.
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You took the words right out of my mouth. I feel like that All the damn time! I'm only 30, and I wish I would have done things differntly. Man...If I knew now..Imay have very well have done things differently.
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Yup. I would have put a bullet into the person before they caused the injuries that lead to decades of pain for me.
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yes, yes, yes!!
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So what's stopping you from trying to do these things now LynnSis?

You can't change the past but you can set up the future....
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there are so many things i would change if i could go back. just kinda depresses me cause there's nothing i can do about it. it's not too late to learn how to dance though....
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Bollucks...it's never too late to do anything. Even people in wheelchairs who are paralysed still dance
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PS: wasn't saying "bolluks" to you Cali...just a general "bollocks" :)
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I would have appreciated an accurate diagnosis in my teens. It took 25 years to get it right and then there was figuring out the right course of action...
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I wish I had received good psych care when I was first sectioned at 19, and my life would maybe have taken a different path. I wish I hadn't let fear rule my life. I wish I had reported my friend's dad for raping me. I wish I could just feel alive
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Soory for being so maudlin!!!
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I don't know...in many ways I wish I could change so many things I did or didn't do...in other ways I have a pretty decent life now with a man I love and three pretty good kids...
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I would have told myself to be careful who I opened my heart too. I would have gone to college right out of high school, even if I didn't know what I wanted, I could at least have gotten an Associates. I would have gotten my driver's license alot earlier.
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