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Offline Curval

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Re: If you could do it all over again...
« Reply #15 on: July 15, 2008, 03:40:01 PM »
Nada.

Changing something even very minor could lead to me not seeing my wife by accident on the street in Toronto, after we had been broken up for a year and a half, about 2 weeks before I moved home.

That would mean no wife and none of my children with her.

So, I wouldn't change a darn thing.
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Offline ODBAL

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Re: If you could do it all over again...
« Reply #16 on: July 15, 2008, 03:40:38 PM »
Well I've made more than my fair share of mistakes ... and if I had to do it over I would probably just make different ones ... and they might have turned out worse.
But if I could just change a single decision ... give me the 5 minutes from 9am to 9:05am EST March 14, 1986 ... I damn well know I could make a better decision than whatever one I made then.

Enquiring minds want to know..
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Offline uptown

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Re: If you could do it all over again...
« Reply #17 on: July 15, 2008, 03:52:32 PM »
I don't think I'd change anything at all... not even the mistakes. 

same here :salute
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Re: If you could do it all over again...
« Reply #18 on: July 15, 2008, 03:57:42 PM »
I would definitely change my attitude towards my education and most definitely would not have given up playing Sports at a young age.  Especially Baseball.
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Re: If you could do it all over again...
« Reply #19 on: July 15, 2008, 04:08:29 PM »
Enquiring minds want to know..

The day of Microsofts IPO.
I have no clue what I was doing or what decisions I made that day ... I do know buying MS stock was not one of them. ;)
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Offline DREDIOCK

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Re: If you could do it all over again...
« Reply #20 on: July 15, 2008, 05:42:17 PM »
If you could go back in time, to any point in your life, and do something differently, be it a one-time decision, or an entire path, what would it be?


I would have continued to follow my original dream and gone to West Point.

Those plans were abandoned after I took a good look at Viet Nam.

While the idea of going to war, fighting and possibly deing,or worse didnt bother me.

I determined I wasnt willing to do any of those things under a government that wasnt going to be serious about actually winning.

To some extent I still question its seriousness.
Seems to me too many decisions that should be made by the in theater commander are being made in Washington.
and entirely too much concern about "world opinion" and what is politically correct.
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Re: If you could do it all over again...
« Reply #21 on: July 15, 2008, 05:46:17 PM »
If we ever hook up for a beer, remind me to tell you the story of 2 women, a college student from Kuwait, and me...

You had a lesbian experience with a college student from Kuwait?

Was she any good?

I know I know
girls never tell  :)
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